Oh, the horror.
Remember when we used to draw planes, warships, tanks, etc.?
I’m 45 and that’s what we did. In fact, in high school, we used to keep a rifle or shotgun in gun racks in our pickup trucks at school. I remember showing my deer rifle to the principal!
Are we just old farts, or is the world really screwed up?
“Uh, oh. Can suspensions be retroactive?”
This disruptive behavior is going to go into your permanent file, young man. It will follow you around for the rest of your life.
When I was a kid, we had toy guns, and used to play war in the woods and fields. I can't imagine what the penalty for that would be today.
Every boy in my 5th grade class would have been suspended.(I’m 53)
Well I remember boys (up to HS at least) drawing page after page of planes, bombers, whatevers, bombing the h*ll out of each other, complete with flaming blowups, lines to indicate where the bullets/bombs were headed, men aiming guns at one another (sometimes with tragic pencilled in results). All kinds of gore and carnage were represented. Heck, besides the AF and Army, the Navy was represented as well, with subs and ships and other floaty items bombing each other into the hereafter.
As far as I know - and I still live in the same small area - not one of those boys ever did anything beyond doodle. It was a ‘boy thing’, just like the girls drew little houses with door perfectly squared in the middle and smoke coming out of the chimney. Good G*d, what would they make of all those boys I went to school with today????