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Kids: Then and Now
Fred On Everything ^ | 2/21/2018

Posted on 02/25/2018 3:49:38 PM PST by Altura Ct.

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To: VanDeKoik

Agreed. I like Fred and wish he had at least run a spellcheck on the article. His experiences in Virginia tracked pretty well with mine in north Texas, with the exception of the athletics. It was easy to avoid taking PE classes, and I took full advantage of it, as did others.

Schooling didn’t include economics because it was too ‘depressing.’ Evolution was glossed over, if not ignored completely. Calculus was a college thing.

Being the children of the WWII generation, we thought it only natural to go into the military, and virtually everyone I knew did. Patriotism meant more than waving a flag.

Merle Haggard’s Okie From Muskogee is an accurate portrayal of the time, though Merle now claims the song was a send-up. I think he just wants to please his leftist friends.


21 posted on 02/25/2018 5:25:56 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Altura Ct.
While I was teaching high school for 16 years (1992 through 2008) I noticed a few things too:

The family units dissolved. Fathers disappeared and kids became single mothers while in the 10th grade or even earlier. The schools facilitate that with on campus child care.

Kids learned to exploit their entitlement and learned to use it as a weapon. They did incredibly mean and cruel things to each other then claimed it was a "prank" and they "didn't know what they did was wrong".

Helicopter moms supported their kids in almost all cases against the institution when issues were brought up. There wasn't a future felon that wasn't an angel in their mother's eyes.

Kids learned how to become victims in search of recognition or revenge. They learned they could manipulate the legal system and the media in ruining a career. Teachers became afraid to do routine classroom discipline for fear of revenge slander that media readily picked up but rarely retracted if proven false.

Entertainment music and TV has become progressively more ethnic and violent and it presented adults and authority figures as non-functional idiots while kids were always the smartest people in the room. There isn't a school function that isn't full of ghetto talk and attitudes. That includes football half time shows and school plays.

And, the drugs...rampant and covering the spectrum both legal and illegal. The dealers are worshipped by the kids as "cool".

22 posted on 02/25/2018 5:26:56 PM PST by pfflier
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To: RitaOK
By the 60’s those of us raised in the wheat fields had still never even seen marijuana.

I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and never encountered marijuana until I entered college in 1969. To this day, I have never used it, even though my college was Barack Obama's alma mater.

23 posted on 02/25/2018 5:31:55 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Altura Ct.

Violent video games, electronic technology, no (any season) outdoor activities, food additives/junk food, rap music/thug culture.


24 posted on 02/25/2018 5:47:28 PM PST by FlossieBuzz
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To: Altura Ct.

Oh, yeah—if only we could go back to segregated schools.

Are you crazy?


25 posted on 02/25/2018 5:51:38 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: RhoTheta

Ping. Interesting.


26 posted on 02/25/2018 6:14:18 PM PST by Egon
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To: Tammy8
countless stories in women’s magazines and morning shows on TV

The bane of our society.

27 posted on 02/25/2018 6:25:00 PM PST by thecodont
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Yes, the school shave been the pushy ones. This has been going on at least since the 1980’s that I am aware of.

I saw this happening back in the 80s and told my wife that the NEA and AFT were trying to wrest control of our children from the nuclear family to the Government. I also told her there was going to be a very bad kickback towards them as the entire teaching establishment was corrupt and had a collective IQ of -50. Too many teachers were young, female, and were graduates with "degrees" in Education, which meant they knew nothing.

As school and Government policies started taking away certain controls from the parents (back then the NEA actually announced that teachers were better prepared and educated to be custodians of all children than biological parents) parents started to let the teachers raise their children.

Since the entire teaching establishment was not actually capable of raising even one child, let along the entire Country, children started to misbehave and the kickback against the teachers started. The teachers then started to whine that parents weren't doing their jobs, not noticing the irony that they were the ones who tried to take the parenting jobs away from mom and dad.

We now have the mess we are in today.

28 posted on 02/25/2018 6:32:47 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Altura Ct.

bump


29 posted on 02/25/2018 7:28:13 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: Altura Ct.

As it stands, comparing the youth of our past who protected, defended and made America great, these kidiots will conversely destroy our nation if there is no hard hitting answer to the left.


30 posted on 02/25/2018 7:53:12 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Altura Ct.

Psycotropic drug use happened.


31 posted on 02/25/2018 8:27:25 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Altura Ct.

bflr


32 posted on 02/25/2018 10:18:35 PM PST by TChad (Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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To: Altura Ct.

BUMP


33 posted on 02/25/2018 10:23:26 PM PST by missthethunder
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To: tuffydoodle

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269251/my-sister-kate-destructive-feminist-legacy-kate-mark-tapson

Above explains alot.

Very good article.


34 posted on 02/25/2018 10:43:40 PM PST by missthethunder
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To: 9YearLurker
Oh, yeah—if only we could go back to segregated schools.

Are you crazy?

D@man straight the could lead to Black Student Unions or Congressional Black Caucus and stuff like that.

35 posted on 02/26/2018 11:06:21 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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