To the editor,
I have been thinking about the school board and some of the problems they are facing. We have had four children go through our schools and two grandchildren, and one still in.
I have thought all along that our schools were not meeting the needs of a lot of the students. I feel that not all students are going to be interested in college. But there are no classes set up to train them in every day jobs that they can earn a living at.
They have had golf, bowling, swimming — not that there is anything wrong with these, except how many of the kids are going to earn a living and support a family with these.
I think the school should look into bringing people to teach a trade. If you listen to the news there are a shortage of some of the trades such as construction workers, mason contractors, mechanical engineers, pipefitters. Unless they go to a trade school after high school, which some are not going to be able to afford, they will have nothing to fall back on.
So in this I feel that the school is letting a lot of kids down. I think they could do something like they did when I was in school. (Let’s see if I can remember back that far). They had a set up where the cooking teacher taught the boys for half the year, and the print shop teacher taught the girls. We learned to run the press and print the school paper.
And yes, I did have a job after I moved to the Falls, with a small printing company printing business cards and small print jobs where we had to hand set type.
Yes, I know that computers do most of that work now, but I think back to how much fun that was to learn. I hope the school board thinks about doing something on this line.
Pat Nash
International Falls, MN.
