Sat Apr 14, 2018 8:41 pm by nikkinutshop
My daughter is Red Seal Journeyman mechanic. She returned to trade school and The university of BC to get her teachers certification. She is into the finals of the practicum then she will be teaching what we call shop trades
She is in high demand and is being "Head Hunted" by many school districts. Very few shop teachers have hands on experience in a trade.
The Province of British Columbia has determined that we are almost into a crisis from a lack of trades training in the schools. The biggest high school in this city tore out all of the new shop machinery and tuned every available space into computer labs. Going into a trade was used as a threat to try and get persons like my son to get serious about school. On one of the visits with the school counselor assigned to my son, the POS counselor tried to take a strip off me in defence of her perceived self importance and the need for students to become trained in computer science. She was so disconnected from her job, she was not aware that my son had been doing computer problem solving for the school for several years. Almost every kid knows computer. I jacked her up on the trade threat thing. I asked her who fixes her import car, who made her desk that she hides behind, who built this school building and who maintains the transit bus the students take to school every day.
I went to my Union's office and had a meeting with the executive and explained the situation of trades being treated like punishment by school counselors.
My union and other trades unions became involved in Job Fairs so they could educate students on the importance of trades and trades training. There is a big push on to revive the trade shops and capture the minds of students inclined toward the trades.
A school shop teacher who knows their job will have a starting wage of $75,000 to $85,000. The wages for teaching shop in the far north starts over $100,000.
When I went into high school in 1960 the trades were being taught. Completion of the high school shop program was considered to be the equivalent of the first year in trade school. Something was lost and regained in the last nearly 60 years.
In 2018 and beyond, computers and mechanics will forever be joined.
I would rather have tools I do not need than to need tools I do not have
Artificial intelligence is no match for real stupidity....