Back when I was in high school, drinking an alcoholic beverage was the HUGE no-no/sometimes "hidden acting 'BAD' thing" and taking dope was not even thought of!
The most one could get at a nurse's office was an aspirin and/or a bandage.
As Freshmen, the shocked and "titterable" sexual topic was "FRENCH KISSING".
Was this nation better for that? YOU BET IT WAS!
We were ALL "AMERICANS" and nobody treated those of a different race or religion any differently than anyone else was treated.
There were NO "safe spaces", nor was anything even remotely considered to be micro nor macro aggression/"triggered"!
Cell phones? LOL...there were still rotary phones, with a very few kids even having their own phone in their rooms and in boarding school, the phone was in a phone booth down the hall!
T.V.?
We had too much homework to be able to watch much of the few channels that were available !
Were we, as a people and a nation better off?
BY LIGHT YEARS !
Some of us ain’t old fossils yet.
So many things were better then. But kids who were sexually abused by adults were ALONE. No one believed them.
French kissing! Oh, that’s funny and brings back memories of how very innocent we were - and I’m not talking about the 50s, either. When I pass our local high school AND Catholic grade school, I am always shocked at how kids are allowed to dress. Like slobs or as if they are going to the beach. This has got to stop. Kids should either be in a Catholic school uniform or pressed, neat clothing and no baseball caps allowed in class. No shorts, either. It’s sort of the sartorial version of the broken windows theory.
This stuff could be fixed in a generation but won’t be.
Recall that then there was JUST morning, noon and 6:00 news HOURs reports............ Now they play it 24/7 while pundits tell us what they think or some Professional tells us what happened.....for Weeks on end!... And they make everything POLITICAL so the story is added to until it falls along the wayside of the next event..............