Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE! Thank you so much to this school for making that sort of investment to train people on a bit of a dying art. I'm totally blown away by those teaching facilities!
Thank you for the nice comment and thank you for taking the time to comment as much appreciated This is only the first phase which is completed now the second phase is currently under construction, which is going to be a very large modern automotive repair which promises to have everything that state of the art and current up-to-date all EV stuff
Thank you for a tour of the best Machinist Education faculty I could imagine. At 65 and still making chips in Australia, I’m jealous of the equipment and set up I Never had the opportunity to play with while at trade school! Good on you Canadians for taking on the challenge of staying relevant and capable of modern manufacture and helping your young learn real skills .
it is a very nice shop and it’s nice that the whole area is all trades There has been a lot of improvements since this video is made, and we’re still fighting things to improve Thank you for the nice comment and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated. Ray
Wow, we have nothing like this huge school engineering shop in Australia. This is like the 1960's tech school, but a heck of a lot more modern, and well just friggin amazing, great to see.
Thank you for the nice comment and it is great to hear from somebody in Australia I visited in 2010 for about a month and a half and I must say the people were extremely friendly to me and welcoming. Have a happy new year. Ray
I was truly blown away by what was shown in the video, I wish this kind of facility was available to the young up and coming Aussie machinists and engineers.
Yes and a Great teacher will make certain each kid knows the Math used and get the kids to help each other learn and be certain they know and understand Trigonometry.....just my thought Great Facility. Keep up the GOOD WORK.@@shopandmath
@@shopandmathAbsolutely! You can use all kinds of speed/feed values in your program, but there's no substitute for sound, vibration, and chip color for optimizing cuts.
I learned to become a machinist by joining the United States Navy. The Navy’s machinist is “Machinery Repairman” the best decision I made in my life. Not only did travel the world and serve my country. Companies appreciate veterans. Worked as a nuclear maintenance machinist for 37 1/2 years straight without one day not employed unit I retired.
Thank you for sharing is interesting to see how people get into the trades Unfortunately, the message I hear is that trades are negative mostly from people that don’t understand what trades are Every time I see a negative add about trades it makes me angry Thank you for sharing your positive experience
Looks like enough machines to have a class of 100 students. Truly impressive, we need facilities like this in every state and the teaching staff to support it.
Depending on the course, the shop could handle 100 students, but it would require them being in different courses The mill lathe and bench could do two groups of 45 and the CNC depending on the course 18 to 30
I’d be like a kid in a candy store! I’ve worked as a machinist for over 50 years since the 60s and have my own shop developing and producing products. I never wanted to be a machinist but I’m so grateful for that opportunity. It’s not just a job learned in prison anymore.
Unfortunately, unfortunately we don’t make a lot of things here in Canada not as many as we should Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
It was quite an investment and there’s some more really interesting things coming very soon Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment is much appreciated
Yes, a lot of timing and a lot of planning went into the layout Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
Began college right when AutoCAD 11 w/AME was introduced purchased for $200 per student. Having a PC at home, the learning possibilities were endless....NEVER had a prob landing a career having mastered this base skill set. I wonder how many young-uns these days can be pry'd away from mommie and their PS2 games? Then the challenge "Alien tech" of reading a tape measure and following simple instructions.
Becuse after 2 years of hardcore PMT school shops are handing out $15 an hour this isn’t the 1950s anymore bucko personally I’m going back to school to earn a mechanical engineering degree while working at a shop I’m lucky I still I am young enough to live with my parents becuse there’s no way in hell I’d be able to live on machinist salary unless I’m 10-15 years in don’t have time for that crap love the trade but I see 1000% why all trades are dying
That's what I call REAL INTELIGENCE! I teach a small design and manufacturing HS program in Idaho. There are 2 things I constantly tell my students. #1- Every class I took in HS later paid off in life after highs school. #2 AI will never take replace the true hands on trades.
Thank you for the nice comment and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated. AI might take over the world someday What tradesmen still have to make it work
Great to know the younger generation have options like this to learn the skills. Wish we had similar investment in education in Australia, most of the manufacturing has been shipped overseas.
A lot of manufacturing has been moved overseas from Canada as well. It’s sad to see in the area that I’m in there is known as the technology triangle there is still a good manufacturing base.
It is great to see that trades are being promoted. Honestly not everyone is suited to be 4 year college bound. This provides an alternate path to a rewarding career.
Can you bring up an excellent point and there’s some things missing that people don’t understand or realize either if you get into an apprenticeship, you’re not paying to go to school, the governments paying you and the programs that I teach if they successfully pass the first year they will get $1000 grant from the government Same with second year third year I believe is 2000 but a change from year to year There are lots of incentives for employers as well, and as you can see, the shops are not with they used to be there’s been a lot of improvements Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
1st time in my life I wished I was Canadian - I'm retired but I would go spend a year or two taking classes in your program, but for the 'international' fee
It’s been a lot of work there’s still room for improvement. Lots of small things to be done yet. Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment
Wow beautiful shop, it's nice to see such a well equipped training facility. I was lucky enough to have been in the first class at the Seneca center for precision skills in Toronto (Weston) in 1981. Made for a successful start to my life in tool and die and metal stamping. Conestoga has always been well respected for their training and programs throughout the years. Worked with many people that received their training there, all well respected. Looking at all the machines the mills and lathes the boys from Heinmann must have been busy with all those installations, they are a great team.
Beautiful shop. Soooper clean wow. I, myself went to BCIT for my pre apprenticeship in 2017 and yr 2,3and 4 thereafter. Their shop is not quite as nice but very functional.
Wow!! When I joined the Navy in 1972 as an MR and went to "A" school in San Diego had nothing even remote to this. All we had were old South Bend belt drive lathes. Even when I went to "C" school four years later.
Wow what a set up. Very impressive and certainly needed today as a lot of the trades are being left behind. Its as if parents and career advisers don't promote the trades as they don't want their children to be a hands on person. The reality is that all of us don't want to be stuck behind a comouter all day. I am a time served fitter and turner here in New Zealand and don't regret one bit of my career path. Now retired I still enjoy working in the blokes shed on both wood and metal builds. Cheers Ian
That’s awesome and thank you for sharing all the way from New Zealand I visited New Zealand for a little over a month back in 2010. It is truly one of the most spectacular places on earth we went from the north to the south and stayed in hostels great time great people super friendly and very helpful. Thank you for commenting and sharing. It is much appreciated.
I am glad you enjoyed your holiday here in NZ. I taught machine shop practice part time at one of our major technical institutes here for many years but sadly more and more of these shops/institutes are closing due to lack of attendance. I also think our health and safety regulations become a big issue as well. I am not sure where all the future trades people are going to come from? Cheers Ian@@shopandmath
Beautiful shop. I didn't catch where the educational facility is located . ( would appreciate the info) Hope its always available for future generations of machinist. 👍
Very Impressive School shop ! I Hope all those "machine Tools are AMERICAN MADE !! haha Doubtful however . I am a Retired Toolmaker of 45 years , I am SO glad to see a School such as this , Step Up to the Plate in the Machining Industry in the USA ! We have become outclassed by foreign Industry , its about Time we Stand up . Without the Industrial Might of America , the entire WORLD today would be a Very Different Place !
A truly fine engineering school workshop, great to see! Nothing like it in the UK unfortunately, as the heart of the industrial revolution we have largely lost our skills base to laziness and bloody social media.
When I was doing my apprenticeship, most of the guys doing the training were either British or German. We imported a lot of good tradesmen. Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated. Happy new year
The statement really hits home with me. I was quite upset during the Ray days when he paid high schools to remove machine shops from them. I think now he realizes how much of a big mistake he made, and how it hurt our country. Thank you for your comment and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
Hmmmm I dont see the name "Bridgeport" on the top ram on those Knee mills ? I had 26 of them in my shop back in the Day .Every single One of them were Bridgeports Made in USA .
This is only one labs in the campus there’s at least 20 more They’ve already started construction on the second phase which is a complete separate building mostly the house the automotive apprenticeship group
I don’t know the the number across all of the courses I currently teach apprenticeship General machinist My level one group or first year is 29 and my level three group is 28
This campus is in Kitchener Ontario The shop is only one of a dozen or so in the building that are as equally impressive, but I don’t teach in those areas It is also only the first stage of a three stage step. It will be three more buildings just like this one that will have all of the trades. From automotive, HVAC plumbing electrical
Honestly, I I don’t know I really never paid much attention to the brand. The most important thing is that they’re all the exact same. This was an issue that we had at the other campus We only have to stock a certain amount of replacement parts for one type of machine instead of five different types of machines it’s stream, lines, maintenance, and repair Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated. Ray
I’ve only used a shaper one time and that was in high school There’s been a few improvements since this video is made come the new year I will make a update video as well Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
It's too bad they are all the same kind of lathes. there should be some turret lathes, chuckers, speed lathes etc. Give the student a more well rounded view.
In our old shop, we had about six different kinds of leaves. The problem with that is maintenance and tooling. Doing maintenance on six different machines holding inventory for repair parts is a nightmare The machines that we purchase as long as they can accomplish the learning outcomes that’s their number one priority Thank you for commenting and thank you for taking the time to comment. It is much appreciated.
Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE! Thank you so much to this school for making that sort of investment to train people on a bit of a dying art. I'm totally blown away by those teaching facilities!
Thank you for the nice comment and thank you for taking the time to comment as much appreciated
This is only the first phase which is completed now the second phase is currently under construction, which is going to be a very large modern automotive repair which promises to have everything that state of the art and current up-to-date all EV stuff
Thank you for a tour of the best Machinist Education faculty I could imagine.
At 65 and still making chips in Australia, I’m jealous of the equipment and set up I Never had the opportunity to play with while at trade school!
Good on you Canadians for taking on the challenge of staying relevant and capable of modern manufacture and helping your young learn real skills .
it is a very nice shop and it’s nice that the whole area is all trades
There has been a lot of improvements since this video is made, and we’re still fighting things to improve
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Ray
Wow, we have nothing like this huge school engineering shop in Australia. This is like the 1960's tech school, but a heck of a lot more modern, and well just friggin amazing, great to see.
Thank you for the nice comment and it is great to hear from somebody in Australia
I visited in 2010 for about a month and a half and I must say the people were extremely friendly to me and welcoming. Have a happy new year.
Ray
I was truly blown away by what was shown in the video, I wish this kind of facility was available to the young up and coming Aussie machinists and engineers.
It is great to see manual machining technology still being taught!
For students to understand advanced machining example CNC you have to know the basics first
Yes and a Great teacher will make certain each kid knows the Math used and get the kids to help each other learn and be certain they know and understand Trigonometry.....just my thought Great Facility. Keep up the GOOD WORK.@@shopandmath
@@shopandmathAbsolutely! You can use all kinds of speed/feed values in your program, but there's no substitute for sound, vibration, and chip color for optimizing cuts.
I learned to become a machinist by joining the United States Navy. The Navy’s machinist is “Machinery Repairman” the best decision I made in my life. Not only did travel the world and serve my country. Companies appreciate veterans. Worked as a nuclear maintenance machinist for 37 1/2 years straight without one day not employed unit I retired.
Thank you for sharing is interesting to see how people get into the trades
Unfortunately, the message I hear is that trades are negative mostly from people that don’t understand what trades are
Every time I see a negative add about trades it makes me angry
Thank you for sharing your positive experience
VERY impressive. I wish I had found this school 60 years ago and I would have been more than a hobby machinist.
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Looks like enough machines to have a class of 100 students. Truly impressive, we need facilities like this in every state and the teaching staff to support it.
Depending on the course, the shop could handle 100 students, but it would require them being in different courses
The mill lathe and bench could do two groups of 45 and the CNC depending on the course 18 to 30
I’d be like a kid in a candy store! I’ve worked as a machinist for over 50 years since the 60s and have my own shop developing and producing products. I never wanted to be a machinist but I’m so grateful for that opportunity. It’s not just a job learned in prison anymore.
Thank you for sharing your story
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- or learned in college, like I did.
None of the places I went to was anywhere *close* to this good!
I am American but I love to buy "Made in Canada." You guys make some good stuff! Keep it up.
Unfortunately, unfortunately we don’t make a lot of things here in Canada not as many as we should
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I had a similar school in the 70's a bit smaller and only 1 paper tape cnc mill. In Montreal. I loved it and it gave me a great career.
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How fortunate the students will be to get all of this to use.
Millions of dollars of equipment really high tech.
It was quite an investment and there’s some more really interesting things coming very soon
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Most impressive ! ........... Never seen anything like it ! Thank You.
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Wow!!! What a beautiful facility, and so nicely laid out.
Yes, a lot of timing and a lot of planning went into the layout
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Began college right when AutoCAD 11 w/AME was introduced purchased for $200 per student. Having a PC at home, the learning possibilities were endless....NEVER had a prob landing a career having mastered this base skill set. I wonder how many young-uns these days can be pry'd away from mommie and their PS2 games? Then the challenge "Alien tech" of reading a tape measure and following simple instructions.
Becuse after 2 years of hardcore PMT school shops are handing out $15 an hour this isn’t the 1950s anymore bucko personally I’m going back to school to earn a mechanical engineering degree while working at a shop I’m lucky I still I am young enough to live with my parents becuse there’s no way in hell I’d be able to live on machinist salary unless I’m 10-15 years in don’t have time for that crap love the trade but I see 1000% why all trades are dying
Wow!!!! That was an impressive tour of the school’s machine shop.
That's what I call REAL INTELIGENCE! I teach a small design and manufacturing HS program in Idaho. There are 2 things I constantly tell my students. #1- Every class I took in HS later paid off in life after highs school. #2 AI will never take replace the true hands on trades.
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AI might take over the world someday
What tradesmen still have to make it work
Great to know the younger generation have options like this to learn the skills. Wish we had similar investment in education in Australia, most of the manufacturing has been shipped overseas.
A lot of manufacturing has been moved overseas from Canada as well. It’s sad to see in the area that I’m in there is known as the technology triangle there is still a good manufacturing base.
It's Great to see so many manual machines 🎉
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It is great to see that trades are being promoted. Honestly not everyone is suited to be 4 year college bound. This provides an alternate path to a rewarding career.
Can you bring up an excellent point and there’s some things missing that people don’t understand or realize either if you get into an apprenticeship, you’re not paying to go to school, the governments paying you and the programs that I teach if they successfully pass the first year they will get $1000 grant from the government Same with second year third year I believe is 2000 but a change from year to year
There are lots of incentives for employers as well, and as you can see, the shops are not with they used to be there’s been a lot of improvements
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1st time in my life I wished I was Canadian - I'm retired but I would go spend a year or two taking classes in your program, but for the 'international' fee
What an amazing improvement in such a short amount of time
It’s been a lot of work there’s still room for improvement. Lots of small things to be done yet.
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That’s a jaw dropping investment into the future. I hope what they’re doing in Kalamazoo comes close, I’d love to teach in a setting like this!
it is quite incredible
And this is only the first phase they have a couple more buildings coming
Wow beautiful shop, it's nice to see such a well equipped training facility. I was lucky enough to have been in the first class at the Seneca center for precision skills in Toronto (Weston) in 1981. Made for a successful start to my life in tool and die and metal stamping. Conestoga has always been well respected for their training and programs throughout the years. Worked with many people that received their training there, all well respected. Looking at all the machines the mills and lathes the boys from Heinmann must have been busy with all those installations, they are a great team.
There is a lot of machines
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Beautiful shop. Soooper clean wow.
I, myself went to BCIT for my pre apprenticeship in 2017 and yr 2,3and 4 thereafter. Their shop is not quite as nice but very functional.
I’m guessing that’s out in BC when I was in Calgary for world skills in 2010 we visited Nate and sat They were excellent training facilities.
Incredible facility Ray. You've done a fantastic job on putting that together for your students. The future is bright.
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Wow!! When I joined the Navy in 1972 as an MR and went to "A" school in San Diego had nothing even remote to this. All we had were old South Bend belt drive lathes. Even when I went to "C" school four years later.
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Wow what a set up. Very impressive and certainly needed today as a lot of the trades are being left behind. Its as if parents and career advisers don't promote the trades as they don't want their children to be a hands on person. The reality is that all of us don't want to be stuck behind a comouter all day. I am a time served fitter and turner here in New Zealand and don't regret one bit of my career path. Now retired I still enjoy working in the blokes shed on both wood and metal builds. Cheers Ian
That’s awesome and thank you for sharing all the way from New Zealand I visited New Zealand for a little over a month back in 2010. It is truly one of the most spectacular places on earth we went from the north to the south and stayed in hostels great time great people super friendly and very helpful.
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I am glad you enjoyed your holiday here in NZ. I taught machine shop practice part time at one of our major technical institutes here for many years but sadly more and more of these shops/institutes are closing due to lack of attendance. I also think our health and safety regulations become a big issue as well. I am not sure where all the future trades people are going to come from? Cheers Ian@@shopandmath
We too have a big problem with not being able to supply trades to the companies. We have many good partners that are struggling to find good workers.
Beautiful shop. I didn't catch where the educational facility is located . ( would appreciate the info) Hope its always available for future generations of machinist. 👍
It’s located in Cambridge Ontario
Such a nice facility. I didn’t find machining until after school - one of my few regrets in life.
Better late than never
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All I can say is WOW. I wish I was 18 again, thats where I would go.
And it’s perfectly clean! Well done all of you.
That’s a great educational facility. I hope it will be full of students for years to come.
I do as well
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Great video as usual Ray, thanks for the tour! A massive improvement over what we had at the Doon campus hahah 👍
Thank you and it’s good to hear you
Happy new year
Ray
Very Impressive School shop ! I Hope all those "machine Tools are AMERICAN MADE !!
haha Doubtful however . I am a Retired Toolmaker of 45 years , I am SO glad to see a School such as this , Step Up to the Plate in the Machining Industry in the USA ! We have become outclassed by foreign Industry , its about Time we Stand up . Without the Industrial Might of America , the entire WORLD today would be a Very Different Place !
Most of the cheaper equipment is not made in the US but our CNC machines are, and so is most of our tooling
@shopandmath outstanding !
Love your shop
Keep up the amazing Work
We NEED skilled Machinist !!!
Thanks for Sharing
Yes, the smaller cheaper equipment. It’s not American, but the HASS CNC machines are.
Whether USA made machines or not a commitment has been made to education. This is Canada after all.
@petergoose8164 correct , you are my Friend
Education is where it MUST start
good to see still going strong, did not think their would still need that many manual machines
Every year we increase number, CNC machines I believe this year we replaced three or four of them
A truly fine engineering school workshop, great to see! Nothing like it in the UK unfortunately, as the heart of the industrial revolution we have largely lost our skills base to laziness and bloody social media.
When I was doing my apprenticeship, most of the guys doing the training were either British or German. We imported a lot of good tradesmen.
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Happy new year
Very nice school machine shop!!
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Awesome we need to teach the young ones to be machinist good job
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Truly impressive!!!
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Nice shop and equipment
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Very nice
They got rid of our shop in the high school I went to. What a shame
The statement really hits home with me. I was quite upset during the Ray days when he paid high schools to remove machine shops from them. I think now he realizes how much of a big mistake he made, and how it hurt our country.
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Hmmmm I dont see the name "Bridgeport" on the top ram on those Knee mills ?
I had 26 of them in my shop back in the Day .Every single One of them were Bridgeports
Made in USA .
Impressive!
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@@shopandmath I usually look forward to your new content. Apparently it hasn’t been popping up in my feed lately. I have videos I have to catch up on.
What a beautiful shop ,where is this school ?
This campus is located in Cambridge Ontario
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all that machinery - is any of not made in the USA - I note they seem to be copies of great US MACHINE TOOLS.
take it back - got to the HAAS machine shop - excellent.
I thought everything was a copy of those stuff made in the US
Don’t worry, only the cheap stuff not American the CNC’s are
Happy new year
Unbelievable looking trade school wish I was twenty again well not really.
This is only one labs in the campus there’s at least 20 more
They’ve already started construction on the second phase which is a complete separate building mostly the house the automotive apprenticeship group
Just curious what your enrollment like? Number of students, length of programs?
I don’t know the the number across all of the courses I currently teach apprenticeship General machinist
My level one group or first year is 29 and my level three group is 28
Where are you located
Ontario?
This campus is in Kitchener Ontario
The shop is only one of a dozen or so in the building that are as equally impressive, but I don’t teach in those areas
It is also only the first stage of a three stage step. It will be three more buildings just like this one that will have all of the trades.
From automotive, HVAC plumbing electrical
Are the manual lathes the same as the Kingston HS series?
Honestly, I I don’t know
I really never paid much attention to the brand. The most important thing is that they’re all the exact same. This was an issue that we had at the other campus
We only have to stock a certain amount of replacement parts for one type of machine instead of five different types of machines it’s stream, lines, maintenance, and repair
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HS metal shop in Ill. 1969-70, had a shaper, no mill, no tig. primitive even.
I’ve only used a shaper one time and that was in high school
There’s been a few improvements since this video is made come the new year I will make a update video as well
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It's too bad they are all the same kind of lathes. there should be some turret lathes, chuckers, speed lathes etc. Give the student a more well rounded view.
In our old shop, we had about six different kinds of leaves. The problem with that is maintenance and tooling.
Doing maintenance on six different machines holding inventory for repair parts is a nightmare
The machines that we purchase as long as they can accomplish the learning outcomes that’s their number one priority
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where is this Conestoga College?
This particular campus is one of many and it’s also phase one of three phases
It is located in Cambridge Ontario
According to abom79's subscribers, HAAS machines are junk, garbage, lowest of the low and not worth going to the WC in.
If they could stand up to the abuse, that students put them through, it must be OK
Adam is a sell out
TH-camrs are the experts of course.