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| BROOKS HIGH SCHOOL: Spanners |
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 Spanners
is an automotive program, housed in a tin shed with an open courtyard
within the school campus. It looks like a typical auto workshop,
brightened up by car posters. Students with a particular need, interest
or ability may spend half a day per week at Spanners. It is run by a
Technical Aide, known as 'Marv the Spannerman' who also maintains the
school's vehicles.
'We take kids who are having
trouble and mix them up with whoever else is here doing automotive at
the time. They wag school but they still turn up at Spanners. I start
talking to them. Sometimes I might point out another way of looking at
things, some morals maybe. I get to hear what's going on without the
red tape.
"Maybe
they're slow with books. We get our hands dirty first and get the books
out last. We've actually got a boy here who took a VW engine apart and
put it back together again without the manual."
- Martin Auton (Marv) |
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