Is this true? School 1957 vs. 2010

[AllosaursRus]

Age and treachery always trumps youth and skill.

Allo Jr outweighs me by close to a hundred pounds! I always just go for the nutz! He's still in baby makin' mode, so I have a "hand" up! lol!

[debk]

I started school in '56 at 4 and graduated in '70 at 17.

The "then" was all the way through my school years. The principal was still paddling when I was in HS. I'm pretty sure the parents were also called, as I remember hearing guys say they were going to be in more trouble when they got home.

We had PE all the way through senior year of HS...4 days a week. I was totally uncoordinated, except for swimming, and believe me the PE teacher didn't care! The only things that saved me were attitude, effort and I could swim.

Except for 1st grade, I went to public school all the way through. We stood every morning and recited the Pledge of Allegience, the teacher when I was younger - then the principal over the loud speaker - either read a Psalm or said a quick prayer, then we sat for announcements. Didn't hurt us at all.

Yes, there were bullies...but they usually ended up getting what they deserved.

Going through school, we liked/loved our teachers for the most part, (though I did have a very evil male Algebra teacher in 9th grade....a total asshole! Only D I ever got in conduct was from him!), but we feared the Principal! The Pincipal was in charge of the paddle, he was the one who called your parents. Mine were only called once....I was in Kindergarten...

My kids graduated in '97 and '00. While they were in elementary school (it's through 5th grade here) I signed permission slips that they could be paddled by the principal with both the teacher and the school office manager, present. T left elementary in '93, and I think that's when the school system stopped ALL paddling.

I've been through the school system with "alphabet" kids, and ritalin. It's a racket and sends my blood pressure into the stratosphere!

Our kids today, would be much better off, if the schools would go back to the way it was when I was a kid. There were a lot less problems, at home - at school - in the workplace.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I wrote about this at the time but my son's school last year didn't want to take him on a field trip lest he get emotional. After dicking-around--er--dickering around the subject for 30 minutes the teacher finally made me lose patience.

"Are there any adults at your school?

"The boy doesn't need special activities he needs to be put on notice that acting-up/acting-out will not be tolerated and if you the teacher can't enforce that, I the daddy will.

"Tell him that in no uncertain terms. Explain to him what the standards of conduct are and that breaches will be addressed. It ain't ****ing rocket science and you don't need a 6-year teaching degree. This is basic, go do it."

She wilted.

The boy went with.

No problems.

Fun was had by all.

Why they have to pussify everything is as maddening as it is inexplicable.

[AllosaursRus]

I wrote about this at the time but my son's school last year didn't want to take him on a field trip lest he get emotional. After dicking-around--er--dickering around the subject for 30 minutes the teacher finally made me lose patience.

"Are there any adults at your school?

"The boy doesn't need special activities he needs to be put on notice that acting-up/acting-out will not be tolerated and if you the teacher can't enforce that, I the daddy will.

"Tell him that in no uncertain terms. Explain to him what the standards of conduct are and that breaches will be addressed. It ain't ****ing rocket science and you don't need a 6-year teaching degree. This is basic, go do it."

She wilted.

The boy went with.

No problems.

Fun was had by all.

Why they have to pussify everything is as maddening as it is inexplicable.

Amazing! The threat of gettin' an ass kickin' actually worked!

I won't say who needs it, the teacher or your son, but you get the drift!

[Thor]

I remember one day when my daughter came home from school and misbehaved. I threatened to spank her. She stared at me and said, "no you won't, I'll call 9-1-1"...... She was in third grade. This would have been around 1996.

[NHSparky]

I remember one day when my daughter came home from school and misbehaved. I threatened to spank her. She stared at me and said, "no you won't, I'll call 9-1-1"...... She was in third grade. This would have been around 1996.

Were that my kid, I would have told her she wouldn't have gotten to 9.

[AllosaursRus]

Were that my kid, I would have told her she wouldn't have gotten to 9.

I GuaranDamnTeeYa she wouldn't have set down for a frikkin' week!

[TheSarge]

Hell, I remember the Vice-Principal in Green River, Wyoming wanting to give me swats, but had to call and ask my father.

By the time I got done, I wished the VP had just beaten my ass instead, the liberal *****.

I always believed...and I've told my kids the same thing...they should (as I was) be more afraid of what would happen to them when they got home than what the school would od to them if they messed up.

[debk]

I always believed...and I've told my kids the same thing...they should (as I was) be more afraid of what would happen to them when they got home than what the school would od to them if they messed up.

All through high school ....I was more afraid of what my father would do to me if I screwed up than anything else.

Kept me from drinking, drugs, sex...anything.

The fear lessened somewhat as I got in college. But I knew if I ever got pregnant...or arrested for anything...the fear of what my father would do to me....made me very, very careful. 

[BlueStateSaint]

I always believed...and I've told my kids the same thing...they should (as I was) be more afraid of what would happen to them when they got home than what the school would od to them if they messed up.

You've heard of the Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan?  Lemme tell you--that was nothing compared to The Wrath of Mom when I got home from school . . .