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Originally posted by On the Edge
Just a little reminder of the way things used to be! No wonder people refer to them as the "good ol' days"!
(For the record,I wasn't even born yet in 1955,but I am old enough to remember common sense!)
From www.freerepublic.com...
"HIGH SCHOOL -- 1955 vs. 2010"
Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1955 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack...
2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by SaturnFX
If you are bored on the subject why do you engage it? As if you are the end all in what should and shouldn't be discussed Saturn.
Why cannot people discuss this topic? If you do not like it, do not come back to it.
People engage here as some are nostalgic, some wish to lay out their grievances while other just want a good laugh. You on the other hand, as evident with your past couple of post wish to dictate what people think is important
by John Taylo Gatto,NY State School Teacher of the Year,1991.
It's called "The Seven-Lesson School Teacher"
This is what he says those "Seven Lessons" amount to...
1.Confusion
2.Class Position
3.Indifference
4.Emotional Dependency
5.Intellectual Dependency
6.Provisional Self-Esteem
7.One Can't Hide
After an adult lifetime spent teaching school, I believe the method of mass-schooling is its only real content. Don't be fooled into thinking that good curriculum or good equipment or good teachers are the critical determinants of your son's or daughter's education. All the pathologies we've considered come about in large measure because the lessons of school prevent children from keeping important appointments with themselves and with their families to learn lessons in self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity, and love -- and lessons in service to others, too, which are among the key lessons of home and community life.
Thirty years ago [in the early 60s] these things could still be learned in the time left after school. But television has eaten up most of that time, and a combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families have swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
A future is rushing down upon our culture which will insist all of us learn the wisdom of non-material experience; a future which will demand as the price of survival that we follow a path of natural life economical in material cost. These lessons cannot be learned in schools as they are. School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know."
Originally posted by Night Star
There is more violence.
Originally posted by On the Edge
No offense,but after getting equal rights,which I'm all in favor for,then the blacks wanted special rights,such as the affirmative action and all that. Now they can have all the NAACP-type organizations they want,but if a group wants to serve the needs of only White people,THEY are racists!
And some still insist they should be given reapartions from years back.
Originally posted by hotpinkurinalmint
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Joe and Sarah are dating
1955: Joe tries to score...with occasional success
2010: Joe tries to score...with occasional success
Things might be better now.
1955: Joes tries to score...with occasional success...and there is no birth control involved. Sarah is likely to get pregant.
2010: Joes tries to score...with occasional sucess....Joe and Sarah might use condoms. Sarah might be on the pill. Joe and Sarah are less likely to let their hormones ruin their lives.
Originally posted by kinda kurious
Originally posted by On the Edge
No offense,but after getting equal rights,which I'm all in favor for,then the blacks wanted special rights,such as the affirmative action and all that. Now they can have all the NAACP-type organizations they want,but if a group wants to serve the needs of only White people,THEY are racists!
And some still insist they should be given reapartions from years back.
Your above response confirms my earler post:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Thanks for showing your true colors. I have a set of white sheets too, but I sleep on mine.
ON TOPIC:
1955: The B/W TV weatherman said it might rain tomorrow.
2010:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/bd9f454ee637.jpg[/atsimg]I wouldn't trade then for now for anything.
[edit on 15-2-2010 by kinda kurious]