And the wife had to pull me out of there or we would have never left.......We decided to send our oldest son to a Vocational school that is within our school district, they have a huge Automotive program along with many other vocational programs for him to experience......After we got him registered we took a walk over to the Auto Shop building, it is Huge!!!!! They do both auto body repair and auto mechanics, which consists of a brakes and suspension class, an electrical class and a engine performance class, which all have their own classrooms....We talked with one of the body shop teachers and he showed us around...They have a Very nice spray booth and are in the process of redoing a '55 chevy, they had an old Metropolitan in the spray booth and a few other old cars getting the body work done....After that we met the Auto Electronics teacher, he mentioned something about pin outs and I brought up that I just finished building a MegaSquirt and that is when he was like I built one of those years ago...So we kind of hit it off in that aspect, then on the way out of that classroom we ran into the engine performance teacher, he's an older guy and someone I could have talked to all night, hence the reason the old lady pulled me out of there......And they have a chassis dyno!!!!, the auto electric teacher even offered the use of it to tune the MegaSquirt and said he'd be willing to help me out if I have any problems.......Anyway pretty stoked about the school and my kid seems to like it to.......
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I'm supprised you were allowed to be with in 300 yards of a school! LOL
I spent a few weeks out-side of San Frisco working a job fair trying to get one of the "school sponsorships"
After a day or so there I started to notice how clean everything was, to clean as a matter of fact. They spent a ton of time in a classroom and because of varrious reasons their shop time was limited. Usually the reason the teachers gave was insurance, or missing parts.....the students said the teachers never let them do anything. The shop was full of "teacher projects" and the parking lot was full of "student projects" that they had towed in and never got to work on. Maybe things have changed, and I hope your kids experience is better.Originally posted by TCalso boost will make the cam act smaller
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I hope your boy's experience is a good one. We had a pretty good auto/metal shop/wood shop set up in our HS (but we're talking mid sixties) and we had a ball and learned a TON. I was interesting - our Auto Shop teacher really didn't know much and we spent a lot of time teaching him how stuff worked. He had the book learnin' and the teaching degree and we had the laying-in-the-mud-at-the-side-of-the-road hands on experience. I'm not sure if it was his first year teaching or just his first year in Auto Shop but he sure needed an education and we tried to give it to him.
Our metal shop teacher was one of my favorite teachers of all time. His name was Denver Dunn and he was an amazing man. He taught me one of the most important lessons of my life. He was explaining that he was no machinist and "All I can teach you is how much you don't know". That's stuck with me my whole long life.
So anyhow - best of luck on this. It's going to be, at least, a way for the lad to decide what he does or doesn't want to do for his profession.
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Originally posted by A/Fuel View PostI'm supprised you were allowed to be with in 300 yards of a school! LOL
I spent a few weeks out-side of San Frisco working a job fair trying to get one of the "school sponsorships"
After a day or so there I started to notice how clean everything was, to clean as a matter of fact. They spent a ton of time in a classroom and because of varrious reasons their shop time was limited. Usually the reason the teachers gave was insurance, or missing parts.....the students said the teachers never let them do anything. The shop was full of "teacher projects" and the parking lot was full of "student projects" that they had towed in and never got to work on. Maybe things have changed, and I hope your kids experience is better.Doing it all wrong since 1966
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I didn't spend time in auto shop till I was a senior, and had a few empty hours to fill (I had already taken all the math/science classes they had to offer by my junior year). The shop teacher was really into cars and had some VWs, a boat with a Chevy 230, and a 57 chevy 4x4. I still see him at car stuff in Tucson, he's built a bunch of older Chevy cars over the past decade or two.
My own experience tells me that getting your hands dirty and breaking stuff is a pretty effective way to learn what the book is trying to teach you.My fabulous web page
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Originally posted by SuperBuickGuy View PostWhere I went to school (now closed) the school only allowed student projects in the shop. The welding instructor was allowed to keep his dune buggy in the shop, but was forbidden to work on it. The school, actually, used the same reason - insurance - as to why the instructors had to do the work on their cars at their own homes. Even so, the completion rate of student cars wasn't terribly high.Last edited by TC; January 27, 2012, 09:29 AM.
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