Finally......education with substance!
 

We just spent 2.5 hours enrolling our new high school freshman this morning and I was pretty excited to see these elective class options and my son put them all in his top priority list along with engineering and web business!
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Hopefully this is a start of genuine interests in something besides computer video . :thumbsup:

Damn! I would go back to high school right now if they offered me those classes.:y0!:

Isn't that the truth! I was genuinely envious. Hopefully he gets into the welding, machine, and metals classes and we can learn together. The kid possesses an above average IQ especially in math, but his information retention level is scary.......makes me wonder who's his Daddy. :sieg:

I haven't even factored leveraging Mom for additional shop tools in the future for her little :angel:

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Don't you already have him beat in that category? :underchair:

Come November my camera and I will to make you pay for that! :D

Sieg,

What school is that? I attended Reynolds in Troutdale, a while ago, and we had some very similar courses. I was able to take 4 years of "auto shop" and 3 years of "metal shop". They were somewhat broader than those offerings but really gave me a good foundation that I have used in this hobby for the last 15 years. I remember Kids making $28/hour welding straight out of our HS program. We need more of this kind of training.

Glad to see your son interested! Even if he doesn't pursue any field in those areas(like myself) he will still have those skills forever.

I would expect nothing less. :hitaxeonthehead:

Thurston High School, nationally recognized during the Kip Kinkle shooting spree.......:sieg:

I completely agree with "we need more of this" I told my son this morning of all the classes I took in junior and high school the classes I benefited the most from to this day were woodworking and automotive.

How's Pendleton doing? We have a family ranch south of Echo, mp4 on Reith Rd. :thumbsup:

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Thats awesome Sieg. Things sure have changed from when we were in school. My son is a Freshman this year also. He wants to be a mechanical Engineer and lucky for us Oak Ridge High has an engineering program. He is currently taking the prerequisit class which is CAD class.. So far so good.
The other cool thing is that he is taking Italian and came home speaking to us in Italian the other day.
Exciting times in the Cosentino houshold these days.

That's awesome Gae. They also have an engineering/mechanical drawing/cad class which he may get into. It's refreshing to see some real world applicable courses.

is it a vocational high school?

No, one of the two public HS's in Springfield.

Great to hear, Sieg. I took metal fabrication in high school. Learned to weld, mill, and bend sheet metal. Looking back, besides math, it was my most influential class. The high school I went to no longer offers this, however.
Bummer.

The junior high I took 3 years of woodworking at dumped the woodworking shop years ago, the school was renamed from Thomas Jefferson to Rosa Parks and is more of an alternatives school now.

The high school I took automotive at which also had a very nice woodworking shop converted the stand alone shop building to alternatives classrooms.

Our educational failures have lead to a flourishing immigrant population.

I should update my location since I actually moved to Hermiston a couple years ago... Their close enough. Not much is changing in Pendleton currently, just preparing for round-up.

How often do you make it out here?

That's awesome! When I was in high school they offered Engineering Drawing, Wood shop and Auto shop.

I took all the Engineering drawing and Wood shop classes I could. I never took auto shop because in high school I knew more than that guy did. I know when I was there he replaced the head gasket on an inline-6, 66 Mustang. And he forgot to tighten the head bolts, blew the motor. He was actually a SMOG technician.

I sure wish we had welding and fabricating classes. I learned in my garage after high school, but those are awesome life lessons. And it doesn't have to be cars either, you can use those skills anywhere.

Don't make it up there often enough! Couple times a year if I'm lucky. Looking forward to more frequency in the future as I really enjoy the land up there. Almost as much as my Lab. :D