Joebot

As a high school woodworking teacher, it was a no brainer to buy the sawstop. I've never personally had a table saw accident ( a few heart pounding close calls) nor have my students because of the way I choose to teach my kids about that snarling beast. OUr decision to get the sawstop was not mitigated by the court at all. The extra thousand bucks pays for itself a thousand-fold if it prevents one of our students from a serious injury.

As for the lawsuit, where was the judgement against the employer? THEY're the reason for the guy's accident. Where was the supervisor of this employee? If that were the case, maybe lots of woorworking and construction shops would re-evaluate their common practice of removing all the safety stuff from their saws and calling guys who use push sticks sissies.

High School woodworking teacher here: Whomever said that you should teach techniques to the least talented person in the room is a wise person. While I've personally done this method , I won't teach it to my students.

Why? Because kids are inherently impatient. They'll push it too hard, too fast and I'll watch the piece fly across the room (or worse). If you're an impatient person, this will happen to you as well. And since this is billed as a quick tenon procedure, impatient people will be drawn to it.

Leave it out.