Learning Jet to fill role as classroom at St. Paul airport

Because that's how it was when I went to school. The "cool toys" the students never got to touch or work with, or if we did it was in some really minimal role with a teacher hovering directly over our shoulders. As an example, the high school I went to had a very large, very expensive, IBM mainframe computer in our computer lab. It was supposed to be for the students to learn on and work with. In the four years I went to that school it never once even got powered up for the students or while students were in the room. If you were coding for the machine you turned in your work to the teacher, who would run your programs (supposedly) during lunch, before class, or after school. I don't think that machine ever actually got turned on. At another nearby high school my friend was training to become an aviation mechanic, and the school had quite an assortment of retired airframes and powerplants for the kids to work on, but no students were ever actually allowed to do anything on the airframes, the powerplants were never actually run, and students made do with models and cutaways. No one wanted to risk equipment getting damaged or broken, or any possibility someone might skin a knuckle or something.

That was the prevailing attitude during my high school years, and the main reason I dropped out and joined the Navy (got my GED while I was in and my degrees afterwards under the GI Bill).