21. High School Joinery Shop. The general plan of the wood shop for the high school will depend so greatly upon its relation to other shops in which wood is worked that the most that can be hoped by discussing it is that the plan offered may offer a starting point from which to work. In some communities the one shop will be all that is needed both for cabinet work, first year joinery, and pattern-making with, possibly, wood-turning. In other communities the number of students taking the work may warrant separate shops with full machine equipment for each. In still others it may be advisable to have adjoining shops but still necessary to make use of the same machinery. Some schools plan to have all the classes in one big room, sometimes having as many as seventy boys with three instructors. If this latter plan is followed, tho it is not advised, there should certainly be provided an adjoining demonstration room where the instructors may talk to the boys without the competing noises of other classes.

Fig. 11 is a suggestive sketch. It provides for lockers similar in make-up to those discussed in connection with the grammar school.

Fig. 11. SUGGESTED FLOOR PLAN FOR HIGH SCHOOL SHOP.

General tools are to be kept in a tool room which may be placed in charge of a student assistant. Each boy is then to be provided with metal checks. When a tool is asked for the assistant will hang the student's check in the place of the tool taken out. Upon the return of the tool the check will be returned.

First year students may be safely taught to use the band-saw and jig-saw, with proper safe guards about the former. Other machines are best kept in a separate room.

Since high school pupils ought to be taught how to apply more difficult finishes, such as rubbed varnish, than those taught in the grammar schools, a special room will be necessary in order to avoid the shop dust. This room should be made fire proof, if possible, and should have racks about the walls upon which to place work being finished.