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By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« on: February 12, 2023, 04:51:04 AM »
EDUCATION SYSTEM -- 1957 vs. 2022
[that's 65-years, making you between 80 and 95 years old today - these would be funny if they were not so sad]

Act 1 (High School):
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - The Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car, and gets his own shotgun to show Jack.
2022 - The school goes into lock down. The FBI is called. Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors are called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Act 2 (High School):
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - A crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2022 - The Police are called, and the SWAT team arrives.  They arrest both Johnny and Mark. Both are charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.
 
Act 3 (High School):
Jeffrey will not be still in class.  He disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey is sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2022 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.
 
Act 4 (High School):
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car.  His Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2022 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself.  Their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
 
Act 5 (High School):
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2022 - The police are called. Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
 
Act 6 (High School):
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2022 - Pedro's cause is taken up by the State. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. The ACLU files a class action lawsuit against the school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from the core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
 
Act 7 (High School):
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2022 - ATF, Homeland Security, and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents.  All siblings are removed from their home. All computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
 
Act 8 (Elementary School):
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.  He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2022 -Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2023, 05:21:34 AM »
 ;D '56 was the same as '57. I was a senior in "56 and was in ag and FFA. Senior year in ag was woodshop and my project was building a new stock for my 22 rifle. I also drove a school bus that year and hauled the rifle to school, kept it in my locker, and returned it home on that bus when finished. No one got upset in the least over my project. That wasn't my only project but the only one involving a gun. We also went outside and stepped off the school grounds to catch a quick smoke between periods or an extended one at lunch and were joined by the principal quite often. How times have changed and not for the better.

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2023, 09:25:25 AM »
Graduated in 68. Traded pocket knives with teachers at school, and quail hunted with some of'em.
You may all go to hell, I will go to Texas. Davy Crockett

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2023, 10:00:36 AM »
I graduated high school in '54.  It was about '52 when myself and another student interested in outdoor sports, started a rod & gun club in school.
  Some of us brought our guns to school, to demonstrate how to clean & oil etc.  We passed right by the school
  office..with our long guns in hand or slung on our shoulder.  Other days it may be hunting knives or a trapping demo.
 Nobody was alarmed..or even gave us a second look.

    We finished our junior year with a trap shoot on my dad's farm...all enjoyed..

   How times have changed...although it is not that much in rural areas. It seems that the great paranoia is a product
  of cities...although it is spreading.
If you don't want the truth, don't ask me.  If you want something sugar coated...go eat a donut !  (anon)

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2023, 01:12:10 AM »
By the mid-1950's the Nation was still feeling the victory of WWII won in the Pacific.  Everyone "knew someone" who fought.  Gun knowledge was great.  Folks were settling down, forgetting the atrocities of war, raising families, and gathering prosperity from private work.  Racial tensions were on the rise.  McCarthy was chasing Communists in America, which peaked in '54.  Russia became the new "Bad Guy" to beat the U.S. war drum against and in '62, the Cuban Missile Crisis confirmed the great new threat. 

White tailed deer populations, previously decimated by harsh winters, market-hunting, clearing for cotton fields, and control of fire in forests across N. America, were growing in number as a result of the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act and the Nation's focus in the 1940's on the War in Europe and the Pacific.  The 20+year period through the 1950's enabled live trapped and transplanted deer across the East and Mid-Western U.S. to explode in numbers.

Regulated deer hunting became the anxiously awaited, sleep depriving, adrenaline pumping, school closing, season opening synonymous with Thanksgiving.  War surplus, grit, technology, and the human-animal instinct advanced the sales of guns, ammo, and merchandise to hunt deer.  Grandfathers, Fathers, and Son's cement relationships every November at the Lodge Pole.  The Nation took stock in its natural and renewable resources. 

As our politicians sent us to Korea and Vietnam, into wars neither heralded nor waged to win, the National view "back home", exploited by a complicit Media, was insurrection, and almost communist, which blackened the face of politics and the Nation by advancing racism in Welfare and generational handouts, continuing to this day.  We have yet to learn, and seemingly do not want to learn, that no one can be made responsible or empowered with dignity by giving them money for nothing.

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2023, 01:26:18 AM »
By the mid-1950's the Nation was still feeling the victory of WWII won in the Pacific.  Everyone "knew someone" who fought.  Gun knowledge was great.  Folks were settling down, forgetting the atrocities of war, raising families, and gathering prosperity from private work.  Racial tensions were on the rise.  McCarthy was chasing Communists in America, which peaked in '54.  Russia became the new "Bad Guy" to beat the U.S. war drum against and in '62, the Cuban Missile Crisis confirmed the great new threat. 

White tailed deer populations, previously decimated by harsh winters, market-hunting, clearing for cotton fields, and control of fire in forests across N. America, were growing in number as a result of the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act and the Nation's focus in the 1940's on the War in Europe and the Pacific.  The 20+year period through the 1950's enabled live trapped and transplanted deer across the East and Mid-Western U.S. to explode in numbers.

Regulated deer hunting became the anxiously awaited, sleep depriving, adrenaline pumping, school closing, season opening synonymous with Thanksgiving.  War surplus, grit, technology, and the human-animal instinct advanced the sales of guns, ammo, and merchandise to hunt deer.  Grandfathers, Fathers, and Son's cement relationships every November at the Lodge Pole.  The Nation took stock in its natural and renewable resources. 

As our politicians sent us to Korea and Vietnam, into wars neither heralded nor waged to win, the National view "back home", exploited by a complicit Media, was insurrection, and almost communist, which blackened the face of politics and the Nation by advancing racism in Welfare and generational handouts, continuing to this day.  We have yet to learn, and seemingly do not want to learn, that no one can be made responsible or empowered with dignity by giving them money for nothing.

MAS UNO!
You may all go to hell, I will go to Texas. Davy Crockett

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2023, 07:13:23 AM »
By the mid-1950's the Nation was still feeling the victory of WWII won in the Pacific.  Everyone "knew someone" who fought.  Gun knowledge was great.  Folks were settling down, forgetting the atrocities of war, raising families, and gathering prosperity from private work.  Racial tensions were on the rise.  McCarthy was chasing Communists in America, which peaked in '54.  Russia became the new "Bad Guy" to beat the U.S. war drum against and in '62, the Cuban Missile Crisis confirmed the great new threat. 

White tailed deer populations, previously decimated by harsh winters, market-hunting, clearing for cotton fields, and control of fire in forests across N. America, were growing in number as a result of the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act and the Nation's focus in the 1940's on the War in Europe and the Pacific.  The 20+year period through the 1950's enabled live trapped and transplanted deer across the East and Mid-Western U.S. to explode in numbers.

Regulated deer hunting became the anxiously awaited, sleep depriving, adrenaline pumping, school closing, season opening synonymous with Thanksgiving.  War surplus, grit, technology, and the human-animal instinct advanced the sales of guns, ammo, and merchandise to hunt deer.  Grandfathers, Fathers, and Son's cement relationships every November at the Lodge Pole.  The Nation took stock in its natural and renewable resources. 

As our politicians sent us to Korea and Vietnam, into wars neither heralded nor waged to win, the National view "back home", exploited by a complicit Media, was insurrection, and almost communist, which blackened the face of politics and the Nation by advancing racism in Welfare and generational handouts, continuing to this day.  We have yet to learn, and seemingly do not want to learn, that no one can be made responsible or empowered with dignity by giving them money for nothing.

Quite true and well said. The looney left took a few years to arrive after I graduated but now it's the driving force for our once great country.

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2023, 12:54:40 PM »
A good bit of our problems since
I've been living originate from the
flood of frivolous lawsuits filed
since lawyers were allowed to
start advertising, mainly on television.
18 MINUTES.  . . . . . .

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2023, 02:15:40 PM »
My son was expelled for pointing a gun at school, it consisted of his index finger and his thumb. BTW that is the way I point. Wonder where he learned that from? My grandfather carried his rifle to school and kept it in his locker so he could hunt for meat on the way home... F the schools and all they stand for.

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Re: By Today's "standards", none of us was supposed to make it...
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2023, 05:30:42 PM »
That was a different time and people were different too. Even up into the 60s or later; course by then I wasn't paying that much attention. probably should have been. When I was in school, all you had to do was keep your pocketknife in your pocket and no one cared. I hear it isn't that way now days.