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re: What's the biggest difference between schools today and when you grew up?
Posted on 2/28/20 at 7:57 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 2/28/20 at 7:57 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Cell phones and a social media presence.
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Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:38 am to Perfect Circle
We started the day with the Pledge of Allegiance and if you got paddled at school you got another whooping when you got home.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:40 am to Perfect Circle
Calling the police instead of calling the parents.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:41 am to Perfect Circle
All my female teachers looked like a hickory knot.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:41 am to Adajax
I will add Mumblety-peg to the list. in elementary school we boys always had our pocket knife and would play at recess.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:42 am to Perfect Circle
We could bring guns to school. We didn’t have air conditioning. We had paddles and they weren’t for canoeing.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:42 am to Perfect Circle
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Prayer and the paddle.
I was in public school (k-12) from 1981-1994 and I don't recall prayer every being involved in the school day. I do recall "moments of silence and personal reflection" as early as elementary school.
As for the paddle.... yeah, I got a few of those over the years, but I recall it no longer being allowed by the time I left jr. high around 1990.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:42 am to Perfect Circle
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Prayer and the paddle.
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many of us had guns in our vehicles and yet nobody found a need to shoot up people in the school, nor was there ever a fear of something like that taking place
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No smoking areas
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We started the day with the Pledge of Allegiance and if you got paddled at school you got another whooping when you got home
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most kids, black kids included, came from stable, two parent homes with discipline
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Cell phones and a social media presence.
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Calling the police instead of calling the parents
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All my female teachers looked like a hickory knot
Also we did not have A/C. All we had were bottom windows that you pushed open on the bottom and windows that you had too crank open with a metal pole
This post was edited on 2/28/20 at 8:53 am
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:45 am to PearlJam
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Attractive and promiscuous teachers
this and we weren't indoctrinated.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:47 am to Perfect Circle
Teachers and administrators were not afraid of being sued for doing their job.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:47 am to Perfect Circle
In the 80's...
No hot teachers
Bullying was part of life
No hot teachers
Bullying was part of life
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:51 am to Perfect Circle
1. Students are no longer held accountable for their grades.
2. Politicians are now telling teacher what and how to teach. Teachers can no longer create their own curriculum. everything is handed down from the State.
3. The "School Performance Score" or "SPS" is all the school/districts care about.
4. Teachers are only teaching to pass a test (that determines a school's SPS, very little life skills or critical thinking is taught.
5. School is dumbed down to the lowest denominator, in the hopes of keeping Johnny's self esteem high.
6. Teachers are not allowed to fail students. Zeros are not permitted in the gradebook.
7. Administrations no longer back the teachers.
8. Students have figured out they can do nothing and the teacher will pass them with a D, and the school and the parents will all blame the teacher.
2. Politicians are now telling teacher what and how to teach. Teachers can no longer create their own curriculum. everything is handed down from the State.
3. The "School Performance Score" or "SPS" is all the school/districts care about.
4. Teachers are only teaching to pass a test (that determines a school's SPS, very little life skills or critical thinking is taught.
5. School is dumbed down to the lowest denominator, in the hopes of keeping Johnny's self esteem high.
6. Teachers are not allowed to fail students. Zeros are not permitted in the gradebook.
7. Administrations no longer back the teachers.
8. Students have figured out they can do nothing and the teacher will pass them with a D, and the school and the parents will all blame the teacher.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:52 am to Perfect Circle
Internet
Posted on 2/28/20 at 8:58 am to Perfect Circle
Today: lack of parental involvement, students have little respect for teachers, teacher's and administrator's ability to discipline students is usually limited to just sending them home.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:00 am to Perfect Circle
Snow days. Going to high school in the north east, we had so many snow days - sometimes 2 or 3 days in a row (blizzard of 1996!). Now, no snow days where I live.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:03 am to Perfect Circle
School is much more difficult.
My daughter is doing math in 1st grade that I didn’t start till like 3rd or 4th grade.
My daughter is doing math in 1st grade that I didn’t start till like 3rd or 4th grade.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:05 am to Perfect Circle
They close down for everything now.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:08 am to Perfect Circle
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This post was edited on 6/16/20 at 9:49 pm
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:12 am to Perfect Circle
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What's the biggest difference between schools today and when you grew up?
Drills where we hid under a desk in the event of someone dropping a nuke on us VS. drills of hiding in a supply closet from an active shooter
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:14 am to Salmon
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My daughter is doing math in 1st grade that I didn’t start till like 3rd or 4th grade.
My kid knew the same stuff leaving pre-k3 than I did leaving kindergarten.
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