Posted on 11/18/2006 4:20:51 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
An organization that wants to get Men into Boys.
Same here. This has been going on for some time. My older brother (successful engineer) almost got slotted into permanent shop because of a "guidance Counselor" who was nothing more than a socialist apparatchik. Without my parents intervention with the same guy, there is no telling where/what I would be doing today. I am no scholar, or captain of industry, but this guy really had me headed for the basement.
I know I'm a baby boomer and went to school in the dark ages, but--Few boys had trouble "learning" when I was in school and the basics were being taught. Most boys had two parents and neither parents nor boys were on drugs for the latest psyco-social ill. There were few gangs, thugs or miscreants who would shoot up rooms full of students without a second thought. It's either bad parenting or something in the water that has changed to produce such a sad, sorry state in todays society and my vote goes to...hmmm.
What happened with the swim team?
Great coach, male comraderie. 2 state championships. The only downside to swim t4eam was mom on the bleachers many weekends.
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