On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is a sad comment on our society that there could be a need to tell > >> people. > >> Are there really people who were not taught that the first time that they > >> encountered a threaded fastener? > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025, Carey Schug wrote: > > i guess it is such a sad comment. at 76 years old I was never taught that, > > including in shop class in high school. > > It is interesting, and a little horrifying, that it wasn't taught. > Surely it wasn't that the shop teacher didn't know to do it?
By the time I got to High School (early 80s), Shop Class was a thing of the past. If you wanted a Vocational Education, you had to transfer to The Vocational School for half-days. All the other High Schools were academic classes (and extra-curricular activities) only. Shop (and Home Ec) were pushed to the one location. I learned to back-thread either from my Dad or at work (or both). -ethan
