[MissAmericanPie]

Pretty close, even the name. But it wasn't just my area, it was nation wide. Teachers where right below your parents in authority, and your parents were right below God. Girls dressed like ladies.

In public school we started with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. It gave us a commonality and a sense of community and responsibility to each other that is missing today. Cheerleaders were the prettiest girls in school and they were voted on by the student body. Not what you have now, some entertainer with no real steak in weather the team wins or not.

What has happened to our Public Schools over the last couple of decades is not only tragic but criminal.

[Lurking Libertarian]

some entertainer with no real steak in weather the team wins or not. What has happened to our Public Schools over the last couple of decades is not only tragic but criminal.

Especially in teaching spelling.

[atlaw]

You have wonderful memories from the early years of family sitcoms, but reality was rather drastically different.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

The school I went to also started the day with a prayer and the pledge. The nun who was the principal insisted. We were also taught evolution in science class, and in religion class we were taught that God created the universe. They saw no conflict.

"Cheerleaders were the prettiest girls in school and they were voted on by the student body. Not what you have now, some entertainer with no real steak in weather the team wins or not."

So you applaud the mindless adoration of the accidentally beautiful over those with the talent to cheerlead well? How is that better?

"What has happened to our Public Schools over the last couple of decades is not only tragic but criminal."

And totally unrelated to evolution, which has been taught in most places for far longer than when the problems started.

[andysandmikesmom]

I just find it lazy thinking, to declare that evolution is responsible for what has happened to public schools over the last few decades...its just tooo easy, to lay blame on any field of study that you do not like, and from there, use that field of study to explain away the woes of the society, or in this case specifically explain away the decline of the public schools...

Yeah, right, do away with evolution, and things will return to the good old days...

Better to search for the real reasons for the decline in the public schools...I imagine that would take hard work and hard study, much more difficult that simply blaming evolution...