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re: What's the biggest difference between schools today and when you grew up?
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:16 am to Perfect Circle
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:16 am to Perfect Circle
My kid told me they are not allowed to play tag at recess.
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Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:17 am to Perfect Circle
I could call kids “gay” and “retarded” without catching a charge. 
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:21 am to Perfect Circle
Air conditioning.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:22 am to Perfect Circle
corporal punishment was definitely enforced when I was in school back in the day, but that didn't scare me. What scared me more than anything was my mom finding out I was causing trouble in school. She was an arse whipping machine.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:22 am to Perfect Circle
I graduated HS in 97.. We never said prayers in school. Well, I had to go to catholic school from 6-8 grade and we obviously prayed there, but otherwise we never prayed.
But if we acted up we were sent to the principle's office and got whoopin.
And if people got in a fight it wasn't a huge deal. Depending on how bad it was you might get a few days of suspension.. But 98% of the time, if people got in a fight, the next day they were friends again.
Teachers could tell students things like "your daddy shot of shot his load on the wall". Had a black teacher who used to tell some of the black kids in class "Stop acting like you are on a plantation. Its ----- like you why people think all black people are bad".
I had a teacher who cussed like a sailer. He was older, could have retired whenever he wanted, but was waiting for a certain time to retire and he gave 0 fricks.
Half the teachers I had would go to jail today for telling students the shite they did... But you know what? Sometimes we needed to hear it. And those teachers were the ones who had control of their classrooms.
But if we acted up we were sent to the principle's office and got whoopin.
And if people got in a fight it wasn't a huge deal. Depending on how bad it was you might get a few days of suspension.. But 98% of the time, if people got in a fight, the next day they were friends again.
Teachers could tell students things like "your daddy shot of shot his load on the wall". Had a black teacher who used to tell some of the black kids in class "Stop acting like you are on a plantation. Its ----- like you why people think all black people are bad".
I had a teacher who cussed like a sailer. He was older, could have retired whenever he wanted, but was waiting for a certain time to retire and he gave 0 fricks.
Half the teachers I had would go to jail today for telling students the shite they did... But you know what? Sometimes we needed to hear it. And those teachers were the ones who had control of their classrooms.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:23 am to Perfect Circle
At the college level, they desperately want to keep paying customers in school. Was not that way 30 years ago.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:24 am to Mike da Tigah
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Yep, and 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.
I don’t know what you’re fricking downvoting. That’s a fact. I was there.
You clearly didn't go to iskrouma high school in the 80s.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:33 am to Perfect Circle
You could not make up work weeks after it was due like you can today. If you didn't turn in something, and maybe if you caught your teacher in a good mood, you could turn it in the next day and not get a zero. In today's world, I can get on line and see what my kids have due. Yell at them about not turning something in, and then them tell me it's okay, I'll just turn it in late. It is excepted and nine out of ten times, nothing is taken off for being late. Crazy shite.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:39 am to Perfect Circle
There was one instance where there was a moment that would be common in today's word.
The football team got beat pretty bad an at the end of the game they scored a TD but the game was out of hand.. Several players on the sideline was celebrating and hugging each other..
On Sunday went they went watch tape of the game the HC chewed their arse out for the celebrating of a TD that was pretty much a gimme. He said something like "And look at _______, _________, _________ & __________. Yall look like a bunch of figs celebrating and hugging on each other. Why don't yall just go jerk each other off".
After they watched tape an all the team thought it was funny and they were fricking with the ones he told that to. Of the group he told that to, all but two of them were joking back and laughing about it, but the two who were "offended" went home and told their parents.. It lead to the parents fighting to get the HC fired, which the got done by the end of the school year. The coach had been there for 8 years and was popular with the players.
Those players who told their parents and led to his firing didn't even play the following year because they were not well liked by the team.
The coach went on to coach somewhere else, had success then eventually retired.
If that was in today's world.. It would be all in the news, people would make a huge deal about it, etc.
The football team got beat pretty bad an at the end of the game they scored a TD but the game was out of hand.. Several players on the sideline was celebrating and hugging each other..
On Sunday went they went watch tape of the game the HC chewed their arse out for the celebrating of a TD that was pretty much a gimme. He said something like "And look at _______, _________, _________ & __________. Yall look like a bunch of figs celebrating and hugging on each other. Why don't yall just go jerk each other off".
After they watched tape an all the team thought it was funny and they were fricking with the ones he told that to. Of the group he told that to, all but two of them were joking back and laughing about it, but the two who were "offended" went home and told their parents.. It lead to the parents fighting to get the HC fired, which the got done by the end of the school year. The coach had been there for 8 years and was popular with the players.
Those players who told their parents and led to his firing didn't even play the following year because they were not well liked by the team.
The coach went on to coach somewhere else, had success then eventually retired.
If that was in today's world.. It would be all in the news, people would make a huge deal about it, etc.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:39 am to Perfect Circle
Discipline
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:40 am to Perfect Circle
We weren't a bunch of pussies who got their feelings hurt over stupid shite.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:41 am to Perfect Circle
A lack of discipline.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:45 am to Perfect Circle
We had a daily Bible reading (at a public, not private school), every teacher had a wooden paddle withing arm's reach and everyone didn't get a trophy for participation. If you got an award, you earned it, be it in sports, academics or otherwise.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:45 am to jimmy the leg
Never heard of a school shooting, people were respectful, fresh cooked yeast rolls,big ole wood paddle,it was so quiet during class- if someone got a padding you could hear it all over the school..... What a deterrent. 
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:51 am to Perfect Circle
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Cell phones and a social media presence.
...are a scourge sent by the Devil himself.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:51 am to Mike da Tigah
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Yep, and many of us had guns in our vehicles
They started banning guns when I was a senior. It was a big deal because people couldn't understand why. A lot of people would go get a hunt in right after school.. On Fridays people would get ready to go to the camp for the weekend and would just have their gun in the gun rack of their truck.
It was stupid because we had to go through metal detectors to get into school so it wasn't like someone could go get their gun and come back in the school.
No wonder kids are the way they are today..
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:52 am to Perfect Circle
They're more lenient about the shite that matters and stricter about shite that doesn't.
Fighting wasn't considered a big deal and most of the time they wouldn't even call your parents. You sat in the office for a few hours waiting to talk to the principal and usually made friends with the guy you fought while you were waiting. That's how I met my best friend. My son got in a playground scuffle a few years ago and the school assembled a damned crisis team that I had to meet with.
Someone mentioned food and that's a lot different now. We had a Taco Bell Express, a Mountain Mike's Pizza stand, and the cafeteria on campus. We also had an hour to eat and could leave campus to eat somewhere else. We loved it but we were eating like shite. My kids don't have a Taco Bell but the cafeteria has a much wider selection including healthy options (that at least one of my kids takes advantage of).
A lot of zero tolerance policies now. I got caught smoking hash in the bathroom once and got 2 days detention. You'd be suspended at a minimum these days and possibly arrested.
And PE has become an afterthought in most schools.
Fighting wasn't considered a big deal and most of the time they wouldn't even call your parents. You sat in the office for a few hours waiting to talk to the principal and usually made friends with the guy you fought while you were waiting. That's how I met my best friend. My son got in a playground scuffle a few years ago and the school assembled a damned crisis team that I had to meet with.
Someone mentioned food and that's a lot different now. We had a Taco Bell Express, a Mountain Mike's Pizza stand, and the cafeteria on campus. We also had an hour to eat and could leave campus to eat somewhere else. We loved it but we were eating like shite. My kids don't have a Taco Bell but the cafeteria has a much wider selection including healthy options (that at least one of my kids takes advantage of).
A lot of zero tolerance policies now. I got caught smoking hash in the bathroom once and got 2 days detention. You'd be suspended at a minimum these days and possibly arrested.
And PE has become an afterthought in most schools.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:52 am to Bumble Bee
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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
I don't know why you are being downvoted. All of this is true.
Last week while my students were researching a project in the library, another teacher was there with her students all week. Each day they were honing their "online test taking skills" by repeatedly taking practice tests.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 9:53 am to Perfect Circle
Where to begin.
Dress code that included hair length and facial hair restrictions
shirts tucked in
no sneakers except in gym class, daily gym class by the way
belts required if your pants had belt loops
no a/c in the classrooms
dowdy looking women teachers
quick action and penalties for bad behavior
cursive handwriting was the norm
no calculators in math classes but you could use a slide rule------that's enough for now.
Dress code that included hair length and facial hair restrictions
shirts tucked in
no sneakers except in gym class, daily gym class by the way
belts required if your pants had belt loops
no a/c in the classrooms
dowdy looking women teachers
quick action and penalties for bad behavior
cursive handwriting was the norm
no calculators in math classes but you could use a slide rule------that's enough for now.
Posted on 2/28/20 at 10:04 am to metrueblue
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We had a daily Bible reading
Were most of the people in your school of the same religion? There were times when we had moments of silence and if anyone felt the need to pray we could do it in the way we see if to ourselves.
Which is the best way to handle it in public school. Not sure if that is considered "keeping religion out of school" or not, but I never understood the whole "things are bad because they took prayer out of school" argument.
If only it was that simple..
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