Article: High school drop-outs: courses, not students.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)

I learned the technical high school in the Chicago area I attended may be dropping its shop courses because of declining interest. That's too bad. When I was there, there were 20 to 30 areas available such as forging, foundry, automotive, aviation, sheet metal, machining, and more.

I will soon be attending an educators' conference in Los Angeles County, where they will want to know what they should be teaching engineering students. I will give them ...

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