16 Dec
2025
16 Dec
'25
4:42 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
By the time I got to High School (early 80s), Shop Class was a thing
of the past. If you wanted a Vocational Education, you had to
transfer to The Vocational School for half-days. All the other High
Schools were academic classes (and extra-curricular activities) only.
Shop (and Home Ec) were pushed to the one location.
I learned to back-thread either from my Dad or at work (or both).
-ethan
> It is a
sad comment on our society that there could be a need to tell
> people.
> Are there really people who were not taught that the first time that they
> encountered a threaded fastener?
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025, Carey Schug wrote:
i guess it is such a sad comment. at 76 years
old I was never taught that,
including in shop class in high school.
It is interesting, and a little horrifying, that it wasn't taught.
Surely it wasn't that the shop teacher didn't know to do it?