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http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Replacing-Woodshop.html

15 Million.

That's how many people we will be short by in 2020.

We will need 15 milion more workers to handle technical issues in the projected economy. They have to come from somewhere. In almost every school in the nation, industrial arts, cooking, engineering, and economics class are being phased out. Yes, more focus is being put on the college educated worker, the one that builds up the great tower of knowledge that is america. But no matter how firm or massive or tall the tower is, it still needs a foundation. Blue-collar workers and builders are just as, if not moreso, important then those lawyers and doctors and professors who stand at the top. Who designed the skyscrapers that these people work in? Engineers and architects. Who built it? Everyday workers, who know how to work with their hands. These people didn't decide to be engineers because of science class. They didn't look out the window one day while calculating the asymtope of a curve and say 'gee, this is fun! I'm gonna be an architect.'

It was the other classes that led to the backbone of america. It was Principles of Engineering that led the little boy to one day design a skyscraper. It was home economics that made the girl become one of the greatest innovators of her age. It was cooking class that led the child to becoming the founder of the largest antihunger charity group in the world.

These things are america.

Practicality is america.

Home economics, cooking and woodshop is america. The second we get rid of these things, we shoot ourselves in the foot. America will become a obese titan that can't even brush it's teeth without help. We need these classes.

We need classes with class.

I rest my case. Ranger out.