Posted on 04/08/2019 7:07:49 AM PDT by NOBO2012
In the fourth and fifth grade, I attended a two room country school. All the dozen, or so, kids played "Work-up" softball together at recess. Every kid would work-up his way to bat, by everything from shagging dead balls to catching fly balls, so everyone from first through eighth grade would play all positions. We had a very strict gun policy: anyone bringing a gun to school, had to unload it, and leave it in the coat room.
The school bullies, the Romneys, and Lee families could hear you a comin' a quarter-mile away and they scattered like rats.
Would that be about right? :- )
the problem these days is that if you send your kids to walk the half mile to school they would be the only ones. In the fifties there were a ton of kids around.
The only real long-term solution is to stop subsidizing dysfunctional people into creating another generation of dysfunctional people.
By nearly EVERY metric, crime throughout North America is DOWN compared to when we were children, the exceptions being manufactured/process offenses.
You don’t believe the press when it comes to politics or anthropogenic climate change do you?
The church of perpetual panic has its propaganda running constantly, swamping you with horror stories from wherever the worst things happen, with no sense of proportion or distance: if something worrisome happened in L.A. or Bozeman, it’s fed to you 24/7 for at least 3 days, or until the next bad event. This is to keep you frightened and easily controlled.
There are over 300,000,000 people in the USA. Some misbehave. It seems worse because ONLY the baddies make the news!
DON’T BELIEVE THE PRESS!!!
Same here.. We were all ‘freerange’ back in the 60’s. And my parents were actually more strict than anyone else’s. The Left overdo EVERYTHING.
I grew up across the street from the county landfill, it was a great place to play as long as our parents didn’t catch us. We took out rats with our pellet guns, blew up stuff with M-80’s and generally had a good time.
Yep, we walked to and from school when I was growing up. If we were late getting out of the house, mom would tell us to hurry up. No driving kids to school in our household.
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