Nah, purely resistive loads in that class. Was pretty basic since it was a required course. Electronics in high school, an elective… yeah there were some dipshits that earned the Sparky nickname.
Now tech school, where we were left unsupervised for lunch… yeah there were a lot of blown out voltage regulators from using our hand-built power supplies to pop capacitors in various ways and degrees of safety. What can I say, some guys just love the smell of burnt peanut butter.
Middle school for me. Was about a month of machine shop. We built a breadboard, demonstrated the difference between series and parallel using light bulbs, that kind of thing.
I know I have a “swords united” meme with C/c at the center but can’t find it for the life of me.
The manufacturers had a clue long before we did. Just like leaded gasoline. And fossil fuels in general. And cigarettes. And so on. Nothing changes until governments step in, which sends the “captains of industry” into tantrums like the spoiled pissbabies they are.
That is even more enraging.
“This stuff is awesome! We can make it into any shape we want, it’s cheap, and amazingly durable! MAKE ALL THE THINGS PLASTIC!”
We never stood a chance.
Must be woke vaccines.
If those kinds of things happened I wasn’t around to see it.
Did have a guy do some embroidery on his palm during sewing class though (we got the kitchen sink thrown at us in middle school, was actually kind of neat). Same guy intentionally turned the oven up to max while making pretzels in home ec. Not the brightest bulb.