20 Shop Class Skills That Got Boys Real Jobs at 18 — Before Schools Decided They Didn't Matter

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1962, a 17-year-old in Toledo could walk out of his high school shop class on Friday and into a tool-and-die shop on Monday with a job — no degree, no loan, just a pair of hands that had spent three years at a workbench. He wasn't rare; there were boys like him in every factory town. But on his first morning the foreman didn't test him on the welder or the lathe. He tested him on the plainest thing he ever learned in shop. These are the twenty skills, counted down to that test — and why the shop rooms went dark. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Hughes_Act https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013004.pdf https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases