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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 163895" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'm from that era too. And you want to know the <em>really</em> sad part? Before we got so politically correct and all-knowing and thinking that we had to take care of every aspect of everyones life whether they liked it or not, I <u>KNOW</u> that I got a much better education than my own kids did! And my kids probably got a better education a few years ago than the kids graduating today!</p><p> </p><p>I graduated from high school in 1964 in a small town in Florida near Orlando. There were about 40 kids in my graduating class. The wing with the high school was between the rows of an orange grove. There was NO air conditioning, of course ... not even fans, in hot, humid Florida. We survived. There were at least 30 kids in every class and no such thing as teachers aids or assistants. We barely had a library, much less computers or "media labs" or whatever the heck they're calling them now! Had there been such things as pocket calculators back then, we'd never have been allowed to bring them to class. Discipline was strict and teachers could actually DO SOMETHING if a kid acted up in class! I went to that school for seven years and I don't remember anybody ever mouthing off to a teacher or causing a commotion in class! Really! You KNEW exactly what would happen if you did, and they didn't worry that it would ruin your delicate "self esteem"! If you didn't do the work, you failed! Period! If you didn't take the right classes in high school, you didn't get accepted to college - no making them up once you got there. Very few kids had their own cars and even fewer had after-school jobs. We didn't have as much "stuff" but we didn't know any different. The very worst that anybody ever did in my school sounds so <em>mild</em> now by comparison!</p><p> </p><p>I know that this was a long, long time ago, before drugs became a big problem and all that. But that's not all of it. The whole <em>focus</em> now seems to have changed, and we're NOT necessarily the better for it. Just my opinion though, and you know what they say about opinions ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 163895, member: 1883"] I'm from that era too. And you want to know the [I]really[/I] sad part? Before we got so politically correct and all-knowing and thinking that we had to take care of every aspect of everyones life whether they liked it or not, I [U]KNOW[/U] that I got a much better education than my own kids did! And my kids probably got a better education a few years ago than the kids graduating today! I graduated from high school in 1964 in a small town in Florida near Orlando. There were about 40 kids in my graduating class. The wing with the high school was between the rows of an orange grove. There was NO air conditioning, of course ... not even fans, in hot, humid Florida. We survived. There were at least 30 kids in every class and no such thing as teachers aids or assistants. We barely had a library, much less computers or "media labs" or whatever the heck they're calling them now! Had there been such things as pocket calculators back then, we'd never have been allowed to bring them to class. Discipline was strict and teachers could actually DO SOMETHING if a kid acted up in class! I went to that school for seven years and I don't remember anybody ever mouthing off to a teacher or causing a commotion in class! Really! You KNEW exactly what would happen if you did, and they didn't worry that it would ruin your delicate "self esteem"! If you didn't do the work, you failed! Period! If you didn't take the right classes in high school, you didn't get accepted to college - no making them up once you got there. Very few kids had their own cars and even fewer had after-school jobs. We didn't have as much "stuff" but we didn't know any different. The very worst that anybody ever did in my school sounds so [I]mild[/I] now by comparison! I know that this was a long, long time ago, before drugs became a big problem and all that. But that's not all of it. The whole [I]focus[/I] now seems to have changed, and we're NOT necessarily the better for it. Just my opinion though, and you know what they say about opinions ... [/QUOTE]
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