This is a little off topic but I thin those classes are still needed. Who's going to fix or build everything in the future? My company has been forced to go out and actively recruit service technicians now. One thought we had was to plant the seed at the high school level and get them thinking about us. Problem is all of the good industrial education programs up and down the valley are disappearing. No more wood, no metal, no auto, no electronics, nothing. Plus they now keep the students indoors all day when the weather is hot. I'm only 37 but I remember old classrooms with no AC and being forced to go outside for PE regardless of the weather (Uh oh, I'm starting to sound like my Dad...) . Things are definitely changing.

I'll stop now before I get too far off the subject.