I am a little more optimistic of our youth, but like most things, we will need a event to shift the mindset. While I too wish we had metal, wood, mechanical classes, there is another way in which students are learning to use their hands. We have a robotics class, in this class the students are assembling components (not block style or simplified type). They have drawers and bins of gears, bushings, screws, and nuts. There is metal straps, sheets, motors, servos, tools for cutting and files. Equipment anyone of us would dive into like a child under a Christmas tree.
While the core of what we grew up with has changed, the creativity of these students is the same. There is hope and it is important that we encourage and direct these young minds versus condemn and give up.
We have a counselor here who has his doctorate in an area that deals with social norms.
Social norms is getting a grasp grasp of real information verses rumor. As an example a girl gets pregnant in school. The rumor mill tells that story to many people, then many people here the story from many different views. After a bit, students think everyone is getting pregnant. when in reality it was one person.
A real world example can be shown with our police. A few have done wrong things, but media has told the story loud and repeatedly that now all police are labeled bad. In reality, 97% are honest hard working people putting their lives on the line daily. Of the 3% most of those are making judgement calls and make a mistake once. Then you have a very few who are not walking out their job in a manner that goes against the oath they pledged to.
My point is yes there are button, game playing, lazy youth, but I see many more students learning and being creative in life.
So, as a hobby, maybe we need to have some simple subs that they can quickly put together and have a working sub. Then as the interest grows introduce them to more difficult construction.
My love for subs goes way back in my youth. My grandfather made a wooden sub with a lead keel and nail heads for middle hatches. It was barely positively buoyant. You would throw it in a pool and it would travel long distances before coming to the surface. I spent hours playing with that sub. Watching it above and below the surface.
The submarine ride at Disney was one of my favorites. Movies including the war ones, if they had a sub in it, I liked it. At Fox studios, there was a display of a Gato sub and a ship firing at each other. I watched that while sitting at a restaurant. It has since been paved over. Cousteau and his tv show also inspired me (not his political view, but his passion for the ocean).
Somehow, we have to engage the young mind to fall in love with submarines. If a game gets a kid to build a model of a Type 7 then great!
i will stop rambling, need coffee.
While the core of what we grew up with has changed, the creativity of these students is the same. There is hope and it is important that we encourage and direct these young minds versus condemn and give up.
We have a counselor here who has his doctorate in an area that deals with social norms.
Social norms is getting a grasp grasp of real information verses rumor. As an example a girl gets pregnant in school. The rumor mill tells that story to many people, then many people here the story from many different views. After a bit, students think everyone is getting pregnant. when in reality it was one person.
A real world example can be shown with our police. A few have done wrong things, but media has told the story loud and repeatedly that now all police are labeled bad. In reality, 97% are honest hard working people putting their lives on the line daily. Of the 3% most of those are making judgement calls and make a mistake once. Then you have a very few who are not walking out their job in a manner that goes against the oath they pledged to.
My point is yes there are button, game playing, lazy youth, but I see many more students learning and being creative in life.
So, as a hobby, maybe we need to have some simple subs that they can quickly put together and have a working sub. Then as the interest grows introduce them to more difficult construction.
My love for subs goes way back in my youth. My grandfather made a wooden sub with a lead keel and nail heads for middle hatches. It was barely positively buoyant. You would throw it in a pool and it would travel long distances before coming to the surface. I spent hours playing with that sub. Watching it above and below the surface.
The submarine ride at Disney was one of my favorites. Movies including the war ones, if they had a sub in it, I liked it. At Fox studios, there was a display of a Gato sub and a ship firing at each other. I watched that while sitting at a restaurant. It has since been paved over. Cousteau and his tv show also inspired me (not his political view, but his passion for the ocean).
Somehow, we have to engage the young mind to fall in love with submarines. If a game gets a kid to build a model of a Type 7 then great!
i will stop rambling, need coffee.
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