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When you were in school did you get to take shop class? "Industrial Arts"...whatever.
I took woodshop for years while in school and my teacher had the stereotypical '2 missing fingers' which was great.
| Yes, I took woodshop. | 27 | |
| Nope, I didn't, but my school offered it. | 16 | |
| My school didn't offer woodshop. | 19 |
No.
However, our woodshop students made furniture and shit for the courtyard at school. It was a great class, from what I know, but what sucks is that our school system kept defunding stuff like that.
I tried to take autoshop, but the counselor said that I can't because I am a girl. Literally. He said that. Douche.
It wasn't woodwork as such. We had design technology, which did contain woodwork along with metalwork, product design, graphic design and acrylic work. It was compulsory for three years, I hated it, apart from graphic design which I then carried on through to GCSE.
DT, we call it here. Design Technology. It wasn't just wood stuff though, it was basically building fucking anything our fat bastard of a teacher wanted to decorate his house with.
Wow, the first one to select that my school didn't offer it. I thought technical classes weren't common these days.
I had no idea anyone offered them anymore. The only time I hear about wood shop or any of that stuff is with my grandparents. Different in other countries I guess.
I suppose you're right. We have a technical high school around my area that my brother went to. Otherwise, I wouldn't know it was still offered either. I have only really seen it in movies. I guess it's one of those cliché classes that people associate with high school.
My school has an engineering speciality which its management wears very proudly (and not without a touch of arrogance), and we did do a certain amount of woodwork before we were considered old enough to do electronics or engineering. My teacher was horrible and I venomously hated the lessons. I dropped the subject as soon as I was allowed to drop it. We worked a lot with plastic as well, which I liked a little more but I was never passionate about. They were amongst my least favourite types of lessons, largely because of the way that bitch taught us. We had to take a practical design and technology subject up until we were 16, so I took Food Tech. I didn't like it much either, but the teacher wasn't quite as bad. It was still my worst GCSE, though.
No, it was an elective and I was a band geek so I had no room in my schedule it. I wish I did. I love learning useful things like how to build a chair.
yesss!!! I loved that class. Metal shop too. Mechanical drawing was ok as well.
Yeah, because I grew up in a poor area, my school was geared to producing kids who'd work in factories so, between 11 and 14, on the "production" side I did woodwork, metalwork, plasticwork, enamelwork, CDT, technical drawing, art, cooking, and sewing. I did academic subjects too but not as many as if I'd gone to public school. Classical education was ignored entirely which is a bit of a shame for me because I think I'd have enjoyed that.
My mum taught me when I was about six but I was so bad at it, I never kept it up. I can still do a bit of crochet but I'm not brill at that either. If you need a hem sewing or a button sewing back on, though, I'm okay. And in sewing class, we made our own school bags. I was so chuffed with how mine turned out, I actually used it for a couple of years. It's not exactly wedding dress manufacture but I was still pleased. :)
Where I live you can take woodshop instead of your math credits because it involves measuring and numbers. Most the people where I live do not know how to do math.
Yep, we had word work from about Year 7-9, I think. Textiles and Food Tech too. I made a little Hello Kitty torch! And a Hello Kitty shaped pencil holder. Um, I think I had a thing for Hello Kitty.:P Ok, I don't know why I'm saying think, I know for a fact that I did!:D
It was a lot of fun. My teacher looked like a toad. But me and a friend used to get told off for laughing a lot. And using the cameras to take goofy pictures of each other instead of our products. He got all toady and starting shouting at us. That was embarrassing.:( Other than that, it was fun.