The Sandpaper Lesson That Went Viral and Exposed What Teens Carry Inside

swept the electronic debris into a trash can, locked the classroom door, and turned off the industrial lights.

“Good,” I said, my voice cutting through the stunned silence of twenty teenagers. “Now that the noise stops, the work begins.”

I’ve been teaching Shop Class at Oak Ridge High for thirty-five years. I have sawdust in my lungs, three missing continue reading …