Topic: Going to school 1957 versus now

[bill440cars]

Retro, you grow up in the States?! 

No we did not go to school with African Americans in the 50's. We went to school with Negroes. There were no African Americans then, nor 'gays', nor.....

...we went with Mexicans, Negroes, Chinamen, Japs, and Canucks!
Learned a lot from all those people(s). Sometimes we fought like schoolkids, but we never hated each other, and went to each other's houses to play on weekends. I can't even imagine that now?

      Matter of fact, I was raised in an area that there were alot of Negroes and there was genuine respect from us to them and from them to us. We were ALL people who enjoyed life and lived it. Now, I didn't go to any schools with the Negroes, til High school and for the most part, we all got along. You will always have a small percentage who will cause trouble and such, no matter who they are. 

[70CB750]

It involved violence, I'd bet.

You could call it that, political prisoners and pilots from the Battle of Britain were still locked up, mostly digging uranium, the borders were protected with barbed wire to keep us in, the army was training to be prepared for WWIII. It was everything but freedom.

[Duke McDukiedook]

 I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have these cash machines that would give you money when you needed it. There was only one bank in each state -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the teller, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

 Life was simpler then. There wasn't all this concern about hy-giene! It my days, we didn't have Kleenex. When you turned seventeen, you were given the family handkerchief. ... It hadn't been washed in generations and it stood on its own ... filled with diseases and swarmin' with flies. ... If you tried to blow your nose, you'd get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and children would burst into tears at the sight o' ya! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need moooovin' pitchurrrres. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!

 Progress?! Flobble-de-flee! In my day, when we were angry and frustrated, we just said, "Flobble-de-flee!" 'cause we were idiots and we didn't know what else to say! Just a bunch o' illiterate Cro-Magnons, blowin' on crusty handkerchiefs, waitin' in lines for our head to burst into flame and that's the way it was and we liked it!

[Kevin D]

2014 - 18-year-old sues parents for financial support, college tuition
Associated Press
   MORRISTOWN, N.J. — A New Jersey honor student who says her parents kicked her out of the house when she turned 18 is now suing them, asking a court to make them support her and pay for her college.

   Court documents show various accusations and denials, but one thing is clear: Rachel Canning left home Oct. 30, two days before she turned 18 after she began getting into trouble at school.

   Canning, an honor student at Morris Catholic High School, claims her parents threw her out of the house and would not support her beyond her 18th birthday unless she gave up a boyfriend her parents say is a bad influence.

   In court filings, her parents, retired Lincoln Park Police Chief Sean Canning and his wife, Elizabeth, said their daughter left home voluntarily because she didn’t want to abide by household rules, such as being respectful, keeping a curfew and doing a few chores or ending her relationship.

   Canning says her parents are abusive, contributed to an eating disorder she developed and pushed her to get a basketball scholarship.

   They say they were supportive, helped her through the eating disorder and paid for her to go to a private school where she would not get as much playing time in basketball as she would have at a public school.

   A cheerleader and lacrosse player who hopes to become a biomedical engineer, Canning is seeking immediate weekly financial support, more than $5,000 owed for her last semester at Morris Catholic High School and access to a fund for her college education. Her friend’s father is funding the lawsuit.

   On Tuesday, Morris County Judge Peter Bogaard denied her preliminary requests, noted that allowing young people to sue their parents could invite lawsuits from children who believe that their parents owe them — even hypothetically — an Xbox upon demand. An April 22 hearing is scheduled to decide whether she was constructively abandoned by her parents and left or whether she chose to become independent. USA TODAY contributed.

[Duanob]

I'm sure there are lots of reasons why the world is the way it is today.

Scenerio:
2014
Mark gives Johnnie a 'look'. Johnnie waits for Mark after school with a fully loaded semi-auto he got out of his fathers' closet at home and unloads into Mark and a few others just cause he's pissed off.

I went to school back in the 70's and back then the principle could hand out corporal punishment with a paddle for fighting. Teachers could use force to remove unruly and disruptive kids from class. Saw it many times. But those kids never came back with a gun to exact revenge, they respected the teacher and principle after that in most cases.

Just a thought.

[cmoses]

I stopped at the family hair band portrait.... ahhahahahhaha