HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009

Seriously? You are all nostalgic for the 50's? I think you just remember with longing a (supposed) easier time in our history. Just as a reminder, women barely had any rights (they were supposed to stay in the kitchen and definitely not in shop class - never mind that they "knew what to do with their uterus"), minorities suffered under segregation, crosses were burned in front yards, and many minorities weren't allowed to buy houses in the suburbs. Everybody lived under the threat of the nuclear bomb - duck n cover. If I remember my history correctly, in several states, being gay was a crime.

Oh yeah, girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school.

I'll take this era, thank you.

I can remember even in the late 70's-early 80's walking through the parking lot at Evergreen High school and counting the Guns in the gun racks of all the pickup trucks. No one ever thought of using one because kids were able to work out a disagreement. Even still there were very few fights.

Back then our test scores were higher and the mill tax for schools was about 1/3 of what it is today. Political correctness and liberal agenda's have shifted the focus from the basics- to global warming theory and sensitivity courses for homosexuals. Girls were girls back then too- the whole man hating thing had not really caught on yet.

I wonder how these younger kids are going to cope with the tougher economy they will have to deal with- I think most of them will still be living in mommies basement at 35.

America was somthing to be proud of back in the 50's- economy was booming, the middle class was expanding and there was more freedom and personal responsibility for every individual. Seems like the government has taken that over these days.

I'll take the values we had back then - over the absolute garbage we have today. Life was most certainly better in the 50's than it will be in a few short years for the next generation.

Kate wrote: Seriously? You are all nostalgic for the 50's? I think you just remember with longing a (supposed) easier time in our history. Just as a reminder, women barely had any rights (they were supposed to stay in the kitchen and definitely not in shop class - never mind that they "knew what to do with their uterus"), minorities suffered under segregation, crosses were burned in front yards, and many minorities weren't allowed to buy houses in the suburbs. Everybody lived under the threat of the nuclear bomb - duck n cover. If I remember my history correctly, in several states, being gay was a crime.

Oh yeah, girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school.

I'll take this era, thank you.

If you are asking that of me, then the answer if "no". I expressed no nostalgia. It was brutal.

I remember high school. Heroin in the parking lot, rapes in the bathrooms, brutal beatings, not casual fistfights. It sounds like you guys grew up in Mayberry. Not everyone was that lucky. Too often we see the past through rose colored glasses.

If you were a black person or a woman, 1957 might be a little off of ideal for you...

chickaree wrote: I remember high school. Heroin in the parking lot, rapes in the bathrooms, brutal beatings, not casual fistfights. It sounds like you guys grew up in Mayberry. Not everyone was that lucky. Too often we see the past through rose colored glasses.

Did you grow up in Detroit?

Exaggeration for effect, I believe.

neptunechimney wrote:

chickaree wrote: I remember high school. Heroin in the parking lot, rapes in the bathrooms, brutal beatings, not casual fistfights. It sounds like you guys grew up in Mayberry. Not everyone was that lucky. Too often we see the past through rose colored glasses.

Did you grow up in Detroit?

Charleston. No exaggeration.

BearMtnHIB wrote: I can remember even in the late 70's-early 80's walking through the parking lot at Evergreen High school and counting the Guns in the gun racks of all the pickup trucks. No one ever thought of using one because kids were able to work out a disagreement. Even still there were very few fights.

Back then our test scores were higher and the mill tax for schools was about 1/3 of what it is today. Political correctness and liberal agenda's have shifted the focus from the basics- to global warming theory and sensitivity courses for homosexuals. Girls were girls back then too- the whole man hating thing had not really caught on yet.

I wonder how these younger kids are going to cope with the tougher economy they will have to deal with- I think most of them will still be living in mommies basement at 35.

America was somthing to be proud of back in the 50's- economy was booming, the middle class was expanding and there was more freedom and personal responsibility for every individual. Seems like the government has taken that over these days.

I'll take the values we had back then - over the absolute garbage we have today. Life was most certainly better in the 50's than it will be in a few short years for the next generation.

+1.
I was in high school in the early 80's and most of the 50's examples would have applied then.
I gave a beat down to a bully and afterwards, one of the teachers congratulated me privately.

Won't see that happen anymore. PE class taught archery!

My father was in high school in the 50's. He lived & grew up in Watts- in L.A. He was one of 8 white people in his high school- of 1200 students.

No one I know had it as bad as he did- and he still talks fondly of that time period. Americans had family values back then. He did not grow up in Mayberry- but he was raised in a good family as were most kids in those days.

I remember high school. Heroin in the parking lot, rapes in the bathrooms, brutal beatings, not casual fistfights. It sounds like you guys grew up in Mayberry. Not everyone was that lucky. Too often we see the past through rose colored glasses.

Put your big girl panties on......

Walk it off.

You had it easy.