Story idea Posted on August 18, 2022 at 01:57:14 PM by Ex Assignment desker
Back in the day (1960s) we boomer kids had shop classes, incl a semester of Wood and of Metal, drafting exploratory in jr high, and the girls had cooking, sewing, home ec exploratory semesters.
And then the boys had auto mechanics in HS.
Do schools do that anymore? I got a piece of free scrap metal fm a welding outfit and he and I were lamenting that kids don't get training to use their hands these days.
And where I live now, it's clear schools don't teach Drivers Ed because they dont know the rules of the road and skills.
Do TV stations do anything but cover police PR crime releases? Anybody cover the 'education beat' around the big districts in KC and Kansas side?
I did that for awhile, got a good daily story of what schools were doing, teaching, etc. I know the 1980s viewers really liked knowing what their kids were doing. Even dumb stuff like a story on what kids throw uneaten into the lunch trash. Stuff on career prep; how they handle knotty woke issues like history covering slavery. Do they still show ROOTS to HS kids since the textbooks are too homogenized by Texas school systems to teach reality?
My kid, a professor says when they get to college, they have to pay tuition for remedial sciences because they didn't learn the basics in AP classes to pass a freshman STEM course.
Just throwing out some stuff maybe someone will bring up in a producers meeting! Replies: