Posted on 07/14/2018 7:02:38 PM PDT by vannrox
Do you remember what it was like going to High School in the 1970s? I do. I most certainly do. In fact, the older I get the more removed that I am from it. As time passes, it starts to look like some kind of a scene from “The Twilight Zone”. The truth is that the kind of life that I had growing up is really alien to the way kids grow up today. That is worrisome, and it really concerns me.
When an American intern comes in to work for me, I am stunned just how absolutely helpless they are. They do not realize that they must go to work before the start of the working hours, and cannot leave until the workday is over. They don’t realize some of the most fundamentals regarding self-initiative is totally missing from them. American kids today are robots, or maybe zombies. They need and expect constant supervision. They are afraid to do anything.
Now this only pertains to my American interns.
The interns that I get from Germany, France, Singapore, and England are just fine. What is wrong with America? What are they teaching in schools there? Ugh. I think that I will devote another post to cover that subject. As it is truly alarming.
Whenever I berate an intern about something that they did wrong, I often use examples from my childhood. I use them to illustrate key points. Such as, [1] you need to eat breakfast at home before you come to work. [2] Showers are not optional. [3] Don’t check your Facebook when you are in a meeting with the boss. [4] Lunchtime is for one hour, and long lunches are not an option. As well, as a pet peeve of mine, [5] you must
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Remember filmstrips in grade school? I hated those damn things. http://www.obsoletemedia.org/filmstrip/
I remember that all the pretty high school girls were easy, especially the cheerleaders so I remember....
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..... Even though it was real ..... I caught myself telling something similar to that to my sons at least a decade or so ago ..... That's when I realized that .... OMG ..... I had suddenly become an old fart and had literally transformed into my father ....
..... But as I think about it ...... I wish I could have become half the man my father was ...... GAWD, Thinking about it .... I sure miss him ....
For 1 penny a day I got a vitamin.
“Kids today are either stump stupid or on drugs, nothing else could explain how worthless they are at doing anything but playing with their phone.”
Wrong,there are some GREAT kids out there.
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“Where did they get the idea they could argue with the boss?”, he asks. Probably from home and at school where they regularly argued with their parents, teachers and administrators with impunity. Yes, administrators as in the Principal and Vice Principal.
If your child didn’t regularly talk back to you or get in trouble at school, he is probably doing great in his job.
My 22 year old daughter is an intern and she complains about her generation. She has been complimented on her work ethic, how hard she works and going above and beyond to complete work on time. Must of accidentally did a good job. She can shoot and has hunted white tails with me, excellent with a bow, has a brown belt in karate, played soccer for ten years and averaged 20 semester hours per semester graduating with a BS in Business and minor in Economics. She is not an anomaly for her generation, many of her friends are like her. Her generation has problems to many medicated pampered types, hence the inability to handle responsibilities. I have told her to keep working hard, eventually her and those like her will rise to the top as the wheat is separated from the chaff.
Ha. I remember going to high school in the 60’s. I still have the beautiful Marlin Model 57 lever action .22 rifle I used on the rifle team.
Carried it to school and locked it in the rack.
I graduated High School in 1957, and I went to a ONE ROOM Grade school.
I would NOT trade that education for ANYTHING available today anywhere in the USA.
There were 14 kids in 8 grades with a teacher that had 2 years of college.
I would bet money today that At least 1/2 of those 14 kids got SOME college education & that 1/4 of the 14 got at least a 4 year degree.
We did NOT have running water-—it was brought in every day in a 10 gallon mile can & dispensed out of a ceramic jug. There were 2 outhouses behind the school- each with 2 seats. We had a Merry-Go-Round for recess.
Again- I would NOT trade that education for anything.
Girls were still girls, boys were still boys. We got our first "gay" teacher, and the term "gay". The guy who ran the library had always been queer and nobody thought much about it but when Mr. Sanchez "came out" it was a major political event. We still had teachers who were WWII vets though the post war generation, hard core leftists all, had more or less taken over. My government teacher, who had hit the beach at Salerno and had known the history of the place for the past 2000 year, told me privately that he was retiring at the end of my senior year because "This whole place is going to crap." First time I'd heard a teacher use that word.
The best thing that happened was in 1972 when the Vietnam war was canceled because the TV ratings were so poor and Nixon said there would be no more draft. The worse part was in '73, just as we were getting our driver's licenses, the oil embargo hit, gas lines formed and the price of gas went up to $.60 a gallon. The government teacher told the whole class to forget about what our supplementary reading, "A Primer on Government Spending" by Heilbruner and Bernstein, said but the first chance we got after we graduated we should read Adam Smiths "The Wealth of Nations..." I always thought it was cruel to tell teenagers to read 18th century English prose.
Then Watergate happened and we all believed what we read in the papers. Maybe the most important thing I learned in high school was to never do that.
Well, we knew better than to take pictures of questionable activities.
Well, we knew better than to take pictures of questionable activities.
I had a couple of History teachers who were also part-time cops.
Every so often they’d prop their legs up on the desk with their ankle holster very visible just because...
Of course I remember filmstrips. I was in the AV club.
How is that possible? One way had to be DOWNHILL ! !
“Again- I would NOT trade that education for anything.”
I am much younger than you, and I think you are right to be so appreciative of that education. I feel so bad for these kids that have always had air-conditioning, smart phones, and social media. It is completely counter-intuitive, but those things don’t seem to have been that good for our culture.
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There was no cafeteria at the 4 year high school, and we packed out lunches every day. We could buy 8 oz of milk out of a cooler for a nickel.
ALL tests were scored on the 100% rules & there was no ‘Curve’ in scoring tests. We also wrote in CURSIVE... and we ere judged on that, also. We also could do alot of math in our heads. Love those flash cards from 3rd grade up.
Misbehave & you got detention after school in the Library. If you played football or band or such, you still got detention, and lost time in the other activities.
Large companies came around every spring & tested seniors who wanted to be tested for jobs in their companies.
I had typing & 10 Key calculator in typing class. I still cannot type worth a damn, but I am a whiz on the 10-key. I got recruited by Kroger for their Divisional offices in Madison, Wisconsin, and that was my first real full time job. Bought my first car (1957 Pontiac hardtop) just when I turned 18, and paid for it thru the credit union out of my paycheck.
When I was 29, I took night classes in Accounting while working full time & overtime, & have been a self-employed bookkeeper for small businesses since 1980.
The rules we were taught at home on a dairy farm & the rules we were taught in both of those schools have served me very well in my life.
I am glad I don’t have a job anymore where I hired & fired applicants. There are none today I would even talk to.
Wrong,there are some GREAT kids out there.”””
SOME——NOT the majority.
I graduated HS in 1971. I stay in touch with my old classmates on facebook. Quite a few of them are looney leftists. But we also have a few conservatives.
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