Posted on 01/25/2020 7:42:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this the figment of an overactive imagination? Well, it is in fact a peek at a neighborhood in New York City where the son of immigrant parents read The New York Times every morning in high school, before orchestra rehearsal. Me. The principal, strongly authoritarian and well loved, opened a weekly assembly of highly diverse youngsters by reading a psalm from the Bible. Tough-as-nails, yet tenderhearted teachers passed on a tradition of excellence in thought, expression, and civility while preparing us for a wide range of careers in a free and independent America.
This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school budget. In these “backward” times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages (including Latin). A Reporters’ Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives for a local hospital . . . The list of extracurricular engagements was long.
I think it’s revealing that dictionaries in these “retrograde” times did not prefix definitions of words referring to high moral standards, such as virtue, with the phrase “regarded as.” It did not have to be stated that opinion or “point of view” is not a valid basis for morality.
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STOP.ALL.IMMIGRATION.INDEFINITELY.NOW!
My kids were looking at middle and high-school photos of their grandfather. He, and all his friends were wearing a coat and tie. They asked him: “why were you all dressed-up?”
He told them how a coat and tie were a daily requirement at his public school. If you didn’t have one, the principal and teachers (who greeted all students at the door) sent you home. Nobody complained though. All the parents agreed with the school. It was not a wealthy area either. It was the Depression, and It was a blue-collar neighborhood, very much “working class.”
He explained how there were no drugs, no sex or relationships, no drama, no gangs, no fights, no bullying.
My kids said: “I think we would have liked your school”
Affirmative Action was a serious “nail in the coffin”. When you have conceded the government can harm one citizen to the benefit of another it’s all a con game afterwards.
And I bet they were taught manners besides all the other stuff that Teachers don’t teach any more
“He said the church lost a great blessing by giving up ministry to the poor and letting the government take it over.“
Yes, truly.
Combine that with the progressives’/leftists’ infestation of education, unions, Hollywood, TV, D’rat party, much of gov and our MSM.
Then, add in the deep desire for peace and normal life after the terrible WWII — a job & home & family & car, TV sports & TV dinners & beers, toys & recreation...easy, comfy living.
We got soft, didn’t worry about ‘those hippies’ or college protests, didn’t fret much about the pill or no-fault divorce or pot or ‘God is dead’.
“It was highjacked by whores, fags, addicts and atheists. And the tip of the spear was hollyweird. That was our big mistake, viz. allowing our morals, values and ethics to be shaped by a bunch of demented perverts.”
Exactly right and this process was kicked into high gear when Obama was president.
Spoiling their children in an attempt to give them everything they were denied like Mercedes Benz cars and 7 bedroom 5000 sf homes. Kids from the 80’s, 90’s and beyond were never told “no”. Nor were they taught economics or history.
“Pleasantville”.
I would head there right now if I could!!!!!!!!!
Actually, that's a pretty common opinion o FR.
IMHO the 19th amendment was the turning point ... emotional creatures given the power to vote on how to run the show ...
I’ve often told my children that they have no idea what it was to live free.
You are correct. They elected Roosevelt.
Men were men, women were women and even children could explain that to their parents.
The “greatest generation” carried the seeds of what came later. The 1960’s “cultural revolution” didn’t come out of nowhere. Diana West talks about it in her book “American Betrayal.” Some of her claims are arguable or perhaps overstated, but I think she is on to something.
Schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems.
Liberals destroy list the no rules game is their life until it kills them.
Before 1950-all true but the heavy left assault on the American educational system was well underway since the early 1900s - John Dewey, consolidated school districts, passive PTAs, school boards packed with lefties, gradual elimination of religion, etc., etc.
Also exactly right. Satan used America's fools to vote for that boob simply because he was black. America's fools were more interested in parading their virtue and tolerance than paying attention to O'bummer's politics, religion, (lack of) work ethic and personal habits.
I don’t recall if the adults in my youth were looking back on the 1920’s the way folk around her pine for the 1950’s.
Looking back can be fun, but it can make you depressed.
Ditto!
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