Posted on 04/20/2015 5:49:31 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The elephant on the Green Line trains is the behavior of many of the young people who ride the trains: appalling profanity, an utter disregard for the tidiness of the carriages, the blatant freeloading. To the last, it has not even been a year of operating yet and there is a passenger constituency so accustomed to not paying that a train ride might as well be another in a long list of entitlements. Our elected worthies seem disinclined to point this out. In the meantime, our governor, Mark Dayton, when he is not championing the return of the umlauts to the road signs in Lindström, is ridiculously unsatisfied with various education bills that don't propose to spend at least $695 million, or more than one third of the state's surplus. House Republicans have proposed a $156 million increase in education spending over the two-year budget for 2016-17. Senate DFLers want $361 million in new spending. Dayton scoffs. He is greedily eyeing that anticipated $2 billion surplus and wishes to pass it out to the bottomless pit of public education, there being no evidence that money spent equals academic achievement or closes the achievement gap. Well, there are those superintendents who must be kept in high clover.
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Shorts.
WITH!!! ...with whom you are eating. Oops.
In the 50's ... if you got punishment in school, you got it again at home
In the 50's, your neighbor, who saw you throw a rock at a window in an abandoned or vacant structure, called your mother and you got it from her ... until your father came home and you got it from him too .... as WELL as more Saturday chores, or no allowance or some other punishment
I remember very little discipline as a child, 'cause the ones I DID get, meant something and the remembrance of that one or two was sufficient to prevent (from my own internal comprehension of things) the three, four, five (etc.) events
Society is returning to a group of animals. The zenith of decorum has been reached and it is all downward from here. People with a modicum of respect are working hard to insulate themselves from the animals. Unfortunately government is working hard to prevent and reverse the insulation. The only thing that helps is vast amounts of money. Which goes to the old saying, “Life is a poop sandwich. The more ‘bread’ you have the less you taste the poop.”
“Green Line”?
I thought this was about Boston, as the “Green Line” services several famous colleges!
BU, BC, Simmons, and a few others.
But the story applies to Boston as well, as i used to ride the green Line all the time and encounter the same thing over twenty years ago! :-(
School didn't teach me manners. My parents did.
Manners?
Wouldn’t that presuppose an understanding of “right” and “wrong”.
Doesn’t that require both self-respect and respect for others?
Do manners require humility?
I hear ya! We’re becoming a culture of utterly selfish animals.
I’ve had similar episodes on elevators, airport shuttles, etc...
NOW lottsa guys wear NO socks....even in WINTER! Deliver me! ;oD
The public used to behave differently. The mother of a very good close, long-time friend grew up in Manhattan. In the 1940's and 50's as a young woman, she would wear gloves in public, was never without a hat, and would travel the subway every day to and from her job on Wall Street. In her photos, she looked like Grace Kelly.
LOL
Yes-now we get to see boobs and plumber pants on young women everywhere. I once called a the office at our medical clinic because I was so appalled at the outfit on a young woman in registration wore. It would have been inappropriately revealing at a bar, let alone a place of business.
Decorum, modesty, a respect for the place you are and the people you are with all seem to be relics of the past.
There being no evidence that money spent equals academic achievement.
The last twenty years has proved that it’s like living around chimps.
You should see the Rapid Transit in Cleveland! No “Minority” kids pay, they all just jump the turnstiles.
“School didn’t teach me manners. My parents did”.
Mine, too. It was an ongoing, continued lesson. When we could just talk, we said “please” and “thank you”. As we got older, the lessons progressed. I can remember fondly my Mother teaching me how to even dance (although it was difficult for her to take the lead). Table manners (which fork, spoon, elbows off the table) all explained and frequently. Looking back, it is amazing at how much we learned like you should take your sunglasses off when talking to someone or how to shake hands. This is a parents job.. not an educators IMHO.
My father, who grew up in poverty in a single-parent home, in the Depression, was expected by his public high school to wear a coat and tie to school every day.
Don’t dare ask him if it was “a burden.” Everyone did it, and it instilled self-respect.
Imagine forcing public high school boys today to wear a coat and tie!?!
They know the right thing to do.
They just refuse to do it.
Here’s the summary of the viewpoint of the left:
“Manners are racist”
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