Why I disagree with the Expert Panel on the removal of D&T from the National Curriculum‏

If D&T is a 'disposable' subject. What's next?...History?... If we cannot learn from what we've made what can we possibly learn from what we've done?
I'm hoping that the esteemed members of the Expert Panel still treasure that ashtray or the trinket box they'd made in school so long ago as the only thing from school they kept to this day. If they hadn't I'd welcome them to make an object that they put thought into, designed and realised with their own hands. The sense of achievement and pride harvested from a job well done is incomparable to anything else. It is a basic psychological necessity for every human being, especially for a young mind. You take this away from them and you will take the fun out of learning. You take away the cross-discipline that provides more inspiration to learn science than any other subject!

Science education is currently deemed so important that only 1st class degree holders in maths and physics get decent financial motivation to become teachers...How many 'geeks' who can teach can you fit into a Mini? - The One! It's a running joke that speaks volumes.

(Is the Expert Panel who proposed the changes in the National Curriculum the same that is responsible for this newly revised and extremely unfair PGCE financial incentive scheme... I wonder? And may I request solid statistical proof that 2:2 degree holders make worse teachers than 2:1 or 1st please !?...because in my experience the performance of a teacher has no correlation to his or her original degree classification.)

How many young minds will get excited about science without demonstrable applications? - See "Mini joke" above.
Take away D&T education and you will remove the very reason why most students would actually want to pay attention in math. or physics class. Guaranteed!

I sincerely believe that removing D&T from the National Curriculum would be a mistake that may have long term detrimental effect on society. I can't prove this, no one can, but if there is even a slightest chance that future generations will suffer from a shortage of engineers, architects and designers because we didn't introduced students to D&T at an early age when they are impressionable and enthusiastic - surely, we cannot take this chance. Design & Technology Must remain in the National Curriculum!