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Originally Posted by RWebb
absolutely correct -- shop classes are expensive; even if all the equipment is donated you still have maintenance on it
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Most of the equipment lasts a long long time ( some stuff lasts decades) compared to a desk top computer which lasts about 3 or 4 years in a school use situation.
Shop classes are seen as old fashioned and dirty, noisy places with scary machinery even if they are similar to an actual industrial setting.