HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009

I would not go back but would like for our society to have the values that were in vogue back then.

Jekyll wrote: I posted the same joke in the Basement on Pine Cam, except it was 2010. Great joke, all should see it.

Edit: Course most of it is true for the most part, so is it really that much of a joke?

No not much of a joke. I certainly can identify with much of what was contrasted. Perhaps things were overstated a tiny amount, but not that much. I like the "simpler times" with less intrusive government, social services, and various watchdog groups, not t mention terrorist groups. Perhaps our technology that permits instant news makes it seem that people are less friendly than they were back in the 50's, but that is my perception.

HIGH School, HIGH School...







I'll get back ta ya on that...

TPP wrote: HIGH School, HIGH School...







I'll get back ta ya on that...

The examples used were from high school, but the those were merely to illustrate the difference between a simpler and more complex time. The question asked by outdoor338 after those examples was

Just how stupid have we allowed ourselves to become?

There is nothing in the thread or the question that asks if you wanted to go back to high school or only consider the changes in school systems. Instead it is a satirical perspective on changes through time. That is how I choose to interpret the thread.

Ah, how ideallic. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case in inner city schools.

How about the kid who set fire to a school up in Minnesota and killed over 100 students in the late 40's, early 50's. Another lovely time.

You guys are wearing blinkers.

Yep, that uterus thing. Girls had to wear skirts/dresses no matter what was going on. In 6th grade, we were told we couldn't play a particular version of ball, because our skirts came up. We couldn't even wear coulottes or gauchos, which would have been a nice compromise.

Oh, and the kid in my 6th grade class, just out of military school, set fire to the elementary school when he was in 9th grade.

Yep, wonderful decades, those 40's and 50's, in school.

outdoor338 wrote: HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009

Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins.. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2009 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Just how stupid have we allowed ourselves to become?

This is the one that really strikes home with me. In 7th grade I had 2 schoolyard fights. After each fight we both got dragged into the principal’s office, and that was pretty much the end of it.

All through eighth grade, the 3 of us were inseparable - playing baseball and football together, hanging out together all summer. A couple of the best friends I ever had.

Yeah, I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat. It was nice having the freedom to live without the PC nonsense and social engineering.

I have never heard of a swat team being called out for a fist fight. There are a lot of exaggerations and oversimplifications there. I have to wonder why so many try to reduce life to black and white examples. i live in a technicolor world and like it. Yeah, some things were better then, some things are better now. That's life.

2wlady wrote: Ah, how ideallic. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case in inner city schools.

How about the kid who set fire to a school up in Minnesota and killed over 100 students in the late 40's, early 50's. Another lovely time.

You guys are wearing blinkers.

Yep, that uterus thing. Girls had to wear skirts/dresses no matter what was going on. In 6th grade, we were told we couldn't play a particular version of ball, because our skirts came up. We couldn't even wear coulottes or gauchos, which would have been a nice compromise.

Oh, and the kid in my 6th grade class, just out of military school, set fire to the elementary school when he was in 9th grade.

Yep, wonderful decades, those 40's and 50's, in school.

I'll take those days over what's going on today.

-An educational system that continues to decline
-Kids getting arrested for farting, or drawing stick figures
-Countless children being drugged with Ritalin - while being told to 'say no to drugs'
-Classrooms where discipline has vanished and kids call the shots
-Students can't find Egypt on a map - but they do know how not to offend a homosexual

not to mention the gang problems, teenage pregnancy, dropout rates, etc, etc, etc.

Blurry... 1971-1974....
TRYING!!!!
get back ta ya...

Riverside Indian School was rather brutal back in the early 60s. If you could not engage in a good fistfight then you were nobody of consideration. Uterus? The gals knew how to use it. Football, beer, and ciragettes. Blonde, red, or brown hair was only something that you saw in a color magazine such as Life or Look. Every male carried a knife, including me.
Parents stayed away. Every once in a while you would see the sheriff at the school.