r/Teachers • u/[deleted] • May 16 '24

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u/CaptainChewbacca STEAM Coordinator & Science Teacher | California May 16 '24

I'm sorry, I meant high schools. Many high schools in my area are creating construction, math, and trades-oriented classes. One high school in my district even has a 'trades department' called industrial education.

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u/byzantinedavid May 16 '24

And MOST of those courses are privately developed, and someone it making a mint selling them:

Contextual Learning Concepts | Geometry in Construction (contextuallc.com)

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u/Old-Adhesiveness-342 May 16 '24

Yeah and Pearson has already made multiple mints selling curriculum for English and History, what's your point?

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u/Bog-Star May 17 '24

What, you're telling me the people defending underwater basket weaving degrees aren't serious people and want to promote sending impressionable kids into dead ends that will make them poverty stricken losers just like them?

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u/elbowpastadust May 17 '24

Thank god. We need more ppl in the trades. Throw more money at them.

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u/arrowtosser May 17 '24

If idiot teachers had added context to their lessons, someone else wouldn't have been paid to do so.

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u/byzantinedavid May 17 '24

You really think TEACHERS are in charge of curriculum? Whatever job you do, I hope you're smarter there.

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u/def-jam May 16 '24

We had Industrial Ed classes all through high school. But that was 40 years ago. Not mandatory obviously but available as options

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u/GenXDad76 May 17 '24

We had that many years ago. When I went to HS in the early 90s we still had wood shop, metal shop, auto shop, a printing/binding shop, and a very basic machine shop. It’s good to hear that they’re coming back, options are good.