Same here with High School Industrial Arts Class. Junior & Senior years it was a 2 hour class and I was heavy into the advanced machine shop class. Us advanced seniors was handed a pile of prints and told we had to make 6 or 8 items of our choice and that was it for the year...our classroom time was over and if we passed we became apprentices.
But our cleanroom with gauge blocks, comparetors etc. was also the room where all the industrial arts teachers hung out and drank coffee as all those advanced classes were 2 hours long at the same time and the students didn't need babysitting...but those of us with a car would be called upon to run out and get those teachers some donuts...we had an open campus. A great bunch those teachers/instructors were as most were WWII Vets and we respected them...and they trusted us kids.
