Dustbin Ducati

I'm sure this was one of those things that was done "because I can" but it sure is pretty looking. Whoever made this thing damn sure knew what they were doing. From The New Cafe (Racer) Society.

School starts next week and I'm going to be teaching a metalsmithing class for 30 minutes every day. It's an enrichment thing rather than for credit. I think we're going to rotate everyone out after nine weeks so we won't be able to get too intensive with anything, like making dustbin fairings, but I think it will be a lot of fun - which is the whole idea behind it anyway.

We've been making some changes the last few years and even though this Student Resource Time has been met with some resistance, I think it's a good idea. If your grades are failing they assign you to a help room, if things are good you can get an enrichment room, if everything is Jake and you're a Senior, you can go home 30 minutes early. The only real problem is not enough teachers have volunteered to have enrichment rooms that the students are interested in. To make an enrichment room work, it becomes another class that the teacher has to prepare for and a lot of the slugs we have around here don't want to do anything extra. Some of them don't even want to do what they're paid to do, as far as that goes. With the new boss this year, I'm thinking that's liable to change a little.

So the metalsmithing group will be doing some blacksmithing and some sheet metal work. I want to keep it as open ended as possible and kind of take it where their interests are. There's a guy not too far from us who is a crackerjack metal worker, it might be nice to have him come in one day and talk to the group. He does aircraft and hot rod restoration work. Maybe have the guy where I buy my steel from come in also. He's got a high definition plasma cutter, press brakes, saws, shears - the whole works. Just try to expose the little darlin's to what's out there and let them try their hand at a few things.