Super excited this afternoon, my daughter came home from school and said "I decided to join wooden toy making club" . Well says I, "you do know that pretty much everything they have at school we have within 3m of the back door". "Really?" says she. "Oh yes, you can do extra work on your toys at home".
I think I may have a convert, well for now anyway .
On a serious note, it is one of the reasons we were keen for her to go to an all girls school (yes, I know there are other reasons for a father wanting his daughter at an all girls school ). The logic was not so much around woodwork, but more subjects like physics or chemistry; I understand that the number of girls doing hard core science subjects at a girls school is way more than double that at a mixed school. Problem in a mixed school is that the girls get the message "oh, that is a boys' subject", usually from the boys of course. Can you imagine how many girls wood join the woodworking club in a mixed school?!?
Terry.