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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I grew up dirt poor on the “wrong side of the tracks.” Went to segregated schools, but played ball with the nearby black kids after school & on weekends. The black schools expected their kids to learn the same subjects as the whites, and we competed with them in science fairs & school athletics. We kept our grass mowed and did NOT throw trash on the ground. We rode our bikes all over town til sundown and we were safe. A candy bar, coke or soft ice cream cone 10 inches high could be had for a nickle.
Remember the movie “The Way We Were”? Streisand & Redford.
I watched it again online recently. Oh boy, the propaganda. Streisand plays a Communist, presented as an impossibly high-minded idealist, defender of America & its Constitution.
I remember those times well...
Totally agree. “The Greatest Generation” we’re not the greatest at parenting. Second only to boomers in allowing liberalism to fester and debase our society. They peaked at the close of the war.
“...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....”
That was my old neighborhood in Philly, back in the day.
Frank Rizzo, we miss you.
+ 1 on that. They’re the ones who kept voting for the socialists and the social programs, and who didn’t discipline the baby boomers.
That was pretty much all of America.
Frank would have ordered a state of emergency and unleashed Hell.
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IMHO the 19th amendment was the turning point ... emotional creatures given the power to vote on how to run the show ...
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IMHO any country governed by women is at grave risk of destruction by countries that are governed by men. That, in my view, is an incontestably hard-wired biological and psychological certitude.
Hizzoner Frankie was the best.
Little old ladies didn’t worry about walking to the supermarket when he was mayor.
You skipped my generation.(sigh)
The country ruined by the left. Imagine how far ahead we would be today if those values still prevailed.
It doesn’t work that way.
It’s a given that once a country becomes fat enough and wealthy enough, the spare time and money will lead to bad things and bad ideas.
Idle hands are the devil’s work :)
It was a combination of things, but the purge of Christianity and its values from our government and schools did immense damage.
Agreed.
But people still had to vote less and less Christian folks to congress.
And the spoiled brats of the greatest generation and their kids were more than happy to vote for them.
The question is how many of them knew what it might lead to. Some did, obviously, but I think many didn’t.
good point.
Exactly!!!
I agree, they didn’t know. More of them were able to send their kids to college, where the kids were exposed to ideas antithetical to parents’ values. The schools kept pushing their ideology. Vietnam came and more parents found ways to get their sons to college to protect them from the draft. More indoctrination to a new generation of teachers to push it into the high schools, and then to lower grades.
The seeds were sown long ago, but really started to propagate in the 60’ & 70’s until now when we have a bumper crop of blooming idiocy. Hopefully we’re at a point where it’s so overgrown it starts choking itself out.
Amen.
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