So I bought a small box of tap wrenches, and it had a dollar general dial caliper in it, as well as this. The guy had no idea what idea it is, and neither do i, he seemed to think it had to do something with machining
The "roller has 2 textures and 3 different sized wheels that thread on.
Other than cooking and I guess sewing. I can’t really see that other stuff being important.
No functional adult needs to be hunting or carving wood, it might be a fun hobby but it’s not part of adulting.
Fine motor skills are highly transferable and take a long time to lose.
Even the hunting bit was mostly “common sense” we learned out of a handbook for two weeks, it’s not like we were going to gun ranges.
It’s hard to argue in America it’s bad to teach kids guns safety. Lots of kids live in homes with unsecured firearms and stupid parents.
But yeah, we don’t need to literally have that for everyone. Just some shit that’s actually hands on and not reading a book or staring at a computer screen.
It’d get used more than random dates from 200 years ago.
Financial literacy and small engine repair should be mandatory HS courses.