Posted on 02/19/2025 5:28:20 AM PST by Red Badger
CAN YOU REMEMBER BACK THAT FAR?................
0:50 VIDEO AT LINK.
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I had to find out about WWI on my own.
Woodrow Wilson was a “good guy”.
Yep. Not only lied us into the war, but was a huge racist.
Pope Frankie, is that you?
And the Dems say they hate dictators!
1958 - God’s greatest gift is unanswered prayers.
1961 - when you hear the sirens- if you get under your desk - you won’t be irradiated.
I do view it as a "living document" not because of changing "interpretations", but because the Founding Fathers put into the Constitution a way for us to change the Constitution, which HAS been changed 27 times.
That busing kids from the inner city to my city high school was an innovative idea to raise overall GPA. That somehow these kids would adopt new behaviors based on the example of others.
What actually happened:
1. The imported students were more disruptive and violent. Outbursts in class, more fights…
2. Nearby stores saw an increase in shoplifting.
3. The neighborhood changed. More litter, stores closed, etc. Self policing by parents that kept an on their kids (and knew the parents of many other kids) seemed to go away.
We were not perfect kids or students, but those that were bussed in were a cancer. They didn’t have the same values. They didn’t seem to have parents that set expectations.
I suppose that back in the 80’s this was my first lesson in diversity awareness.
Chris Rock explained it all.
The only way white kids got to learn about “diversity” was the hard way.
No teacher in school dared speak the truth.
The smart kids got the key lesson—never trust adults—they will lie to you to save their jobs.
Second lesson—nobody has your back. You are on your own.
Harry palms? i dated his sister, palmella
No, his sister was Rosey Palms!................
in junior high science class, i was told it was just a “coincidence” when i dared to point out that south america and africa fit together like two jig-saw pieces ... this was 50 years after Alfred Wegener had first proposed his continental drift and plate tectonics theories, and the old guard in geology were still desperately trying to destroy Wegener with ad hominum attacks and screams of “no evidence” [where have we heard THAT one recently a gazillion times?] ...
at any rate, i didn’t believe the science teacher, particularly since she was EXTREMELY vehement [the lady doth protest too much] about the fallaciousness of that observation ...
turns out Wegener and i were correct all along ...
but the dispute in junior high school served me very well throughout life: it cemented my skepticism of authorities and the automatic acceptance as truth of everything they claimed simply because they were authorities, and ever since then i have independently researched unproven theories put forth as “settled science” and made up my own mind about such issues based on whatever facts and alternative opinions that i could find ...
“That High School freshmen could buy elevator tickets to avoid the stairs.”
ROTFLOL!
I want to stand up for my eighth grade science teacher.
He said that we would learn a lot by dissecting a frog.
He was correct—that persuaded me to avoid a career in medicine.
Lol.
“Growing up in the 1950s we were warned that something would go down on our “permanent” record.”
ah yes, the ol’ “permanent record” scam: that was still a thing in the 1960’s in the southern states ... even as a 10 year old i could tell it was a nonsensical threat, sort of like the elementary school version of the boogeyman ...
From our kiddo’s math teacher who insisted @ was the multiplication symbol. I don’t think we’ve ever got that corrected.
2 @ 2 = 4
2 X 2 = 4
My 7 grade Language Arts teacher swore we would always need to learn sentence structure. Wonder if she ever saw text messages.
Teachers were always right. In 1st grade, I learned nuns could be evil monsters who stole and lied and were down right mean creatures.
Throwing this in. A retired teacher told me a couple weeks ago Trump is an evil nasty man who authored Project 25 and I was lying about everything political. Apparently, she’s also an ex-Christian blathering on about Christians know nothing and it’s all about Islam. Most everything she’s ever said has been a lie.
The early 70s in Dallas, TX. Families living in their preferred neighborhoods was somehow forced segregation. That had to end by busing "white" kids to "black" schools and "black" kids to "white" schools every year so they were never with their old friends or siblings and couldn't attend their neighborhood schools 4 houses down the street until 12th grade. It was a good thing for long bus rides across the city. It was a good thing for big metal gates to be pulled down in the halls during class and to lock students in each room ignoring fire codes. It was a good thing not to allow enough time to go to the restroom between classes - uh, ok, that was a good thing so you weren't jumped. It was a good thing I was assaulted twice my 8th grade year, well, nothing was done to the ones doing the assaults. It was a good thing your stuff got stolen to spread the wealth.
I found the file cabinets with all the permanent records in them in the attic of my grade school when cleaning out for a remodel.— as a parent much later.
That some day I’d be glad that I was forced to take trigonometry.
“ Ducking under your desk will save you from an atomic bomb blast.”
How do you know for sure?
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