What kind of stupid things your schools do? / General Chatting / Forums

Forums

4hv.org :: Forums :: General Chatting

« Previous topic | Next topic »

What kind of stupid things your schools do?

1 2 3 4 next last

Move Thread

LAN_403

dmg

Wed Apr 06 2011, 05:18AM

Registered Member #2628 Joined: Fri Jan 15 2010, 12:23AM
Location:
Posts: 627

I realize there are some members here who still attend a "schooling" institute of one form or another, and I ask if anyone here has any stories about thier school management/pricipal/board or however you wish to refer the pricks who run the school, have done something to the school or the curiculum that was *exceptionally* stupid?

Here is mine which I heard recently from a teacher im a good friend with (and confirmed it myself as I had a chat with the school's managment.. they more or less covered thier ears and went "lalalalala we can't hear you lalala".) A couple of years ago, the school closed down the machine shop as it was too unsafe to allow people to use lathes, mills and other machining equipment (liability issues most likly). lately though, there has been the slightest of talk about opening that shop up again for student use, but it was quickly defeated (again, liability), but the alternative proposed and passed is far worse then I can personally fathom, which I will get too soon enough.

So about a month later or so, what the school desided to do is to put 10 something lathes (fairly large old machines, sherline lathes, and other old relaible ones, they are fairly large, some having 12"-24" swing, a 60" bed at the widest). a CNC machine (mill) and a good supply of stock material, all for scrap to clear out the entire storage room (now adding an empty room to accompany all the other empty rooms no one was using.. so lack of space is definatly not an excuse). Also after getting rid of priceless equipment for scrap, the desided to begin construction in the area to build a dance gym and add dancing classes to the curriculum. They couldn't build it in any of the other (and larger) vaccant areas.. they had to build it instead of the machine shop. How far are we know before they consider closing the automotives shop because cars wieght over a ton? how long before they close the welding shop because you can get burned? how long before you close woodshop because you can get a wood splinter in your finger?

A dance gym built in what once used to be a machine shop.. are they fucking kidding me? its just one of those sins that should be unforgivable IMO.

So I ask, what has your school done that completly defied common sence, pissed you off, and royally screwed you and others over in one way or another? (or all 3 at the same time!) Im presonally pretty pissed off about this, so I hope you could bear with the large piece of text (like you couldn't tell already im pissed off :p ), so I would like to hear any of your own experiences if you have had any.

Myke

Wed Apr 06 2011, 05:52AM

Registered Member #540 Joined: Mon Feb 19 2007, 07:49PM
Location: MIT
Posts: 969

My school has none of those.

That's really all there is to say besides I wish the school library didn't open 5 min before school starts and closes 30min after school ends.
...Also AP chem should do more than 2 labs in a year... Reason for not doing so: budget.

dmg

Wed Apr 06 2011, 05:52AM

Registered Member #2628 Joined: Fri Jan 15 2010, 12:23AM
Location:
Posts: 627

yeah.. whats sad my school will be like yours soon.. very soon. And this doesn't stop with mine, just wait and see till these kind of classes are whiped out province wide.. hell nation wide.

Adam Munich

Wed Apr 06 2011, 10:44AM

Registered Member #2893 Joined: Tue Jun 01 2010, 09:25PM
Location: Cali-forn. i. a.
Posts: 2242

They're replacing machine shop with dog grooming in my school gbd.

IIRC a nation's economy can't be built on dancing and dog grooming...

Steve Conner

Wed Apr 06 2011, 12:44PM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706

You're absolutely right, you'll have to sell each other insurance and haircuts to make up the deficit.

You can't base your economy on machining any more either, because American blue-collar workers had the gall (and the trade unions) to fight for decent wages, which resulted in them getting put out of business by China and Korea. The only jobs left are ones that can't be outsourced, such as hairdressing, plumbing and dog grooming. (maybe in the future it will become economical to ship your dog to China for grooming)

When I left the University of *censored*, they were in the process of scrapping the aircraft-hangar-sized engine lab to become the new entrance plaza for the campus. We joked that the machine shop superintendent would end up running the Starbucks franchise.

Killa-X

Wed Apr 06 2011, 03:15PM

Registered Member #1643 Joined: Mon Aug 18 2008, 06:10PM
Location:
Posts: 1039

My school never had machine shop, only wood working. However, we do offer a tech school which has everything... Auto body, precision machining, design and engineering, dental, hospital, etc etc. So i could have taken a machine class for 2 years, but i went with electrical =D

quicksilver

Sat Apr 09 2011, 06:23PM

Registered Member #1408 Joined: Fri Mar 21 2008, 03:49PM
Location: Oracle, AZ
Posts: 679

I live in Arizona where we have some of the better machining and welding curriculum...We have some of the higher end Defense industries (Raytheon, Hughs), we also produce most of the military hardware but we are a "Right to Work" state so the jobs here for a machinist or skilled welder (I remember they produced welders that could weld aluminum w/ oxy/acetylene!) pay approx $15 a hour. One plant was a lrg. supplier for M4/M16 rifles used by US/CAN (average wage: $14 hr).
Only state I have seen that a experienced network engineer can be seriously offered $26k a yr.
Bend over: it all evens out in the end.

However our secondary schools had virtually eliminated PE. The amount of children "diagnosed with ADD" went sky high....I wonder why?

Arcstarter

Sat Apr 09 2011, 08:43PM

Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
Posts: 2253

None of the schools around here seem to have shop. Until about half a year ago, the closest elementary (and the one i went to) was around 3/4 closed. There where mold problems, and in the time i went there i noticed the school progressively getting smaller. The library, auditorium, half of the bathrooms, and finally an entire building where closed in my time there.

Here is what the new school was supposed to look like:

And here is what it looks like (this is less than a mile away, i see it almost every day of my life)

When they where demoing the old school, and for awhile i could see parts of the inside of the gym and it looked just like it did when i attended.

The nearest middle (AKA intermediate) school which i can almost see in that second picture (a couple hundred feet away) has turned into a pretty bad school. I only attended for a year and then started being homeschooled. One of my brother's friends brought a gun to school a couple years ago and was arrested, and since then it has happened i think 2 more times! There are always cops there, and there are drug searches. The high school which is about a mile or two away from the other two schools has drug searches all the time, and they almost always find drugs, and they even find hard drugs like cocaine.

I live in the projects, yo

There is a part of my city called 'Magnolia' which people get shot for so many stupid things. Being in a different gang, being a different color (usually caucasians being the ones who get shot apparently)...

dmg

Sat Apr 09 2011, 09:57PM

Registered Member #2628 Joined: Fri Jan 15 2010, 12:23AM
Location:
Posts: 627

quicksilver wrote ...

However our secondary schools had virtually eliminated PE. The amount of children "diagnosed with ADD" went sky high....I wonder why?

Get used to it too, kid's brains are getting smaller and thier guts wider.

My highschool (which Im glad I miss half of it this year as Im working) is a shithole too, and now it just got a little worse, but in the bigger picture, this is just another nail in the coffin for our schooling system.

God help you if you dare call it education.

Ash Small

Sat Apr 09 2011, 11:15PM

Registered Member #3414 Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4245

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....'Who needs school when there are forums like this.....'

(I wish we had the internet when I was a kid)

1 2 3 4 next last

Moderator(s): Chris Russell, Noelle, Alex, Tesladownunder, Dave Marshall, Dave Billington, Bjørn, Steve Conner, Wolfram, Kizmo, Mads Barnkob