Helping young people

My place of work is in the Techy Dept of a skool where we still do woodworking, techie drawing is now all compooterised but we do have a laser cutter, 3D printer and am in the process of setting up our new toy - a CNC router. The hooligans (schoolchildren) have won quite a few STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics ) challenges and competitions with stuff they have designed and built culminating with 12 of the dears taking their underwater ROV to Long Beach for the world championships, so all is not yet lost.

CRB checks are all out of control with do-gooders using the blanket ban approach for anything, one chap worked with me had 7 different organisations he assisted with doing their own checks as each wants their own check done,

I dont know how I stand as I am now in a vulnerable group (senile ) so does that mean all 400 of the little darlings need checked to see they don't harm me, must ask the Heady tomorrow and see if he knows the policy on that one

A current UK advert for washing detergent capsules states 'Always keep away from children'

I see no reason to disagree

Regards

Lofty

And why is that ?

Perhaps it's a hobby that one grows into with the years.

It requires a lot of spare time and is relatively expensive.

The only real result being of personal satisfaction, in the creation

of something.

I think there are young people who are genuinely interested, just

not as many as there once was. Other interests have also

appeared on the scene, which simply didn't exist before.

For once, a piece of sound advice.

Only joking . . . I love children.

Couldn't eat a whole one, though.