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LOL-Poor shop teachers... My shop teacher was my favorite teacher in high school. Course, it was during the Jurassic era when we didn't have electricity or tools and were constantly being chased by 40 ft carnivores with big nasty teeth.
Man, when you made something in shop in those days, you could really feel proud about it (assuming you survived said chases). But I digress...
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You know, back in the Jurassic Era, they actually had shop classes. Now they don't. I think that kids still need home ec and wood shop. Of course, I was the geeky girl who took metal shop because anther year of choir, theatre arts, and sewing was not her cup of tea. I remember my shop teacher...he hated me. Always made the comment that girls should know their place. He always made me hold the metal when he did "demonstrations." Poor soul, the more he tried to scare me, the more I learned to laugh in the face of danger. We actually ended up being on pretty good terms. He liked telling the boys to suck it up because the girl in the class was better than they were. I still have my toolbox and the other items I created in his class. Yeah...shop was good.
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Sounds like rather than being a male chauvinist nimrod, your teacher was instead "testing your metal, um, er mettle" to see if you really wanted to be there. Glad to hear you ended up on good terms. I loved wood shop and metal shop-made a treasure chest and chess board that I still have. My only regret was that they didn't teach welding (riveted everything), cause I coulda been doin' that all these years.
Man, if I only knew then what I know now...
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Oh a male chauvinist he was, but I wouldn't let him get the best of me. I think he respected the fact that I never backed down. But he always felt like I was not in the right class. He once told me that my intials DB stood for Dumb Broad and then referred to me as DB from then on.
He did teach me welding. There was three other guys and me that he taught to rc and acetyline weld. (They didn't have plasma then I don't think.)
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Man, his DB comment really bothers me-what a jerk! I hate that a person of authority (shop teacher) would say something like that to a kid. I teach 20 somethings at a design school here and can't imagine EVER saying something so negative to any of them-I like raising a person's spirit not shooting it down. Geez!
Someone might argue "it was the times", but that excuse never holds water, otherwise it would excuse slavery, prejudice, lack of women's rights, etc.
If there is something Zen about the whole experience, at least you got some experience doing welding and a tool box out of the deal!
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Yeah and it was cool that I could weld like that Flashdance girl in the 80s...lol. I know what you mean about negativity though. I teach middle school kids today, not becasuse I was inspired by any of my teachers, but because I was NOT inspired by my teachers. The ""soft bigotry of low expectations" was clearly in action where I went to school.
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Oooh, kinda gives off a creepy feeling.
Reminds me of my Uncle, who is missing three fingers at various lengths. (Carpenters *shrugs*)
I like the thimbles. =3
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o.O;
I'm sorry! >.<
I blame going to school for fifteen hours yesterday. Surely that and sleep deprivation excuse my idiocy. ^.^'
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15 hours???? Yikes-tough school!
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