• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I remember having all that in elementary school when I lived in New Jersey. Moved down to Texas and people looked at me like I was crazy when I explained we were using power tools and kilns and computers in 3rd grade.

    Oh no! You don’t get to go anything like that until high school! And this was in one of the wealthier suburbs.

    Parents and school boards simply did not want to spend anything close to that kind of money to educate their kids.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      We had a little of it in 5th/6th grade in Texas when I was in school, however absolutely nothing in High School, I did have a game dev class hosted by a coach who barely knew how to work a computer. Definitely didn’t just play games during that whole class or anything.