Comments on: High School 1957 vs 2009

By: Lorri

Lorri — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:09:23 +0000

1957: Daddy is a carpenter ang girl learns to use hammer and nails. Girl wants to take Shop Class in jr. high school. Is forced to take “Home Ec” (Home Ecch!) instead.

2009: She takes Shop class
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1957: Kid catches polio. Dies or is disabled (‘crippled’ back then).
2009: What’s polio?

1957: Stepmother severely abuses child, bruises, broken arm. No consequences.
2009: School reports abuse. Stepmother prosecuted.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:46:27 +0000

So true, America is overachieving on small things going on in school. Parents are not able to discipline their children properly.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:58:36 +0000

As a child of the 60′s I would not disagree entirely with any of the comments above, but would point out that today we are definitely living in a society where political correctness has gone over the top. Our community had indians and blacks and whites, but we didn’t know we were suppose to all be treated differently. We were silly and just went to school and played together as if we were all pretty much the same. It was political correctness that taught us to recognize that there were differences. Too bad, we were better off not knowing.
Sarcasm, yes, but sadly very true. Todays world is run by lawyers for their own profit regardless of the impact on society. “And justice for all” has gone down the toilet, we now have “a legal loophole for all” and if that doesn’t work then scream prejudice.
Today I admit to being “prejudice”, but to me it means based on what I have seen, I will, in the way of the humans, consider you a threat until you prove different through action or word. I will pre judge everyone, and let them prove themselves.

By: TylerB22

TylerB22 — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:37:49 +0000

While Dan did make it clear early in the post that this artile favored the 1957 version of things, I think that a few of the 2009 scenarios are extreme examples. Guns in schools should not be tolerated at all, regardless of the attitude of people Half A Century ago. Fights in schools, in 2009, do not often result in expulsion for either party. Children with Attention Deficit Disorder are being mediated in an attempt to make them better students, not zombies. I would imagine that children who were struggling in school in 1957 would have welcomed some form of help other than being “given a good paddling by the Priniple”. One note that I agree with the author on is the handling of foreign students who do not learn english. By coddling students who choose to slack in their studies, and blaming their faliures on some diluted coneption of collaborative racism, we are weakening our national identity. That is a subject for another post.

By: Rtkkhuzm07

Rtkkhuzm07 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:44:02 +0000

Personally, I would like to think that, outside of the redneck states, American race relations were slowly STARTING to improve by 1957, even though they still had a long way to go. I have many 1940s & 50′s pulp magazines which feature stories with the odd minority, and these magazines usually portray these people quite positively.