High School 1957 vs 2010

[feralmerril]

The rabbits probley think things are better now!

 

[Engineer1911]

Bump to the top for Update on post #14.

 

[mac2]

Yes, some things way back then you just could not imagine now. Now, I understand that over here in the UK, some private boy's schools did this, up until the 1970s, but it was a lot more common over in the US (correct me if I'm wrong) - naked swimming lessons?

 

[Marshwheeling]

Yes, some things way back then you just could not imagine now. Now, I understand that over here in the UK, some private boy's schools did this, up until the 1970s, but it was a lot more common over in the US (correct me if I'm wrong) - naked swimming lessons?

Not in school, but certainly at the YMCA. No surprise, given what we now know.

 

[Damn Yankee]

I remember those days in High School back in the 50's. One year I had gym first period Monday,Wednesday and Friday. The boys would have the pool for three weeks and then the girls for three weeks.

That first period Monday during the winter was some cold butt water. We would go in the showers and then walk through a foot bath and stand on the side of the pool. "Naked" The gym teacher would talk about something and then blow his whistle. You had better jump in or he would come and make sure you got in the water.

You went in the water looking like a boy and when you got out you looked like a girl. Talk about shrinkage.

 

[brucev]

Never saw gun racks in p.u. trucks when in H.S. Did carry a basic three blade stockman type pocket knife. No problems. However, can understand how things have changed. During the integration period, there were a lot of problems... big fights, knife attacks at the bus stop, bricks/rocks being thrown, etc. Saw one boy cut up real bad w/ box cutter that several of us commonly had for use at work after school at the grocery. In 1957 I was one year old. Many families were stable, nuclear, living mostly in rural or small communities. Parents had that sort of background, etc. Now, many children come from homes that are unstable. Many parents have been raised in disfunctional homes with no socialization that compares to what was the norm of my childhood. A dependent lifestyle has been enabled by subsistence welfare payments. An entire legal and medical business model now revolves around and depends upon this entitlement culture. As to law, etc., the "ruling class" that once wrote the laws has changed. The voting base is now dominated by persons who are not invested socially, financially, ideologically in the America of the 50's but in the America of their own experience, i.e., as briefly described. I have family members who are retired teachers or currently teaching. They are fine people. They are not to blame for the way the educational process and the public school system has be so twisted. I do not think lamenting what has been lost will help anything. Neither will bitterness. My money is on those who remain engaged. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

 

[mac2]

I remember those days in High School back in the 50's. One year I had gym first period Monday,Wednesday and Friday. The boys would have the pool for three weeks and then the girls for three weeks.

That first period Monday during the winter was some cold butt water. We would go in the showers and then walk through a foot bath and stand on the side of the pool. "Naked" The gym teacher would talk about something and then blow his whistle. You had better jump in or he would come and make sure you got in the water.

You went in the water looking like a boy and when you got out you looked like a girl. Talk about shrinkage.

The good ol' days sound like a real eye-opener...I notice that reminiscences about schooldays rarely mention stuff like this although the communal showers get mentioned often (probably because it was more common) and bullying PE teachers.

 

[surveyor_nm]

Deer season 1971...Senior in high school. Drove a '55 Jeep with no top. Buddy and I would go out before school a few miles north of town hunting and get back just in time to make first period. Weren't about to leave our guns in an open-top Jeep...even back then. Pulled the bolts, put them in soft-side gun cases and took them to class with us. Had one teacher (Mr. Thomas...I still remember what a prick he was) sent us to the office. The Principal was a hunter, too. He asked us "Are they unloaded?" I said yessir and the bolts are out... he said "Go back to class!" Don't know what was said to the teacher, but it took him a while to get back to class. Never had any problems after that.
The good old days....

Bill Mahnke
SWCA #1915

 

[mg357]

i graduated high school in 2003 and during MY 4 years of high school i shook the hands of my male teachers and hugged my female teachers on a regular basis and no body said a gosh darn thing about it!

 

[walnutred]

I graduated in 1976. The HS I went to had about a 20 acre Nature Center that was mostly woods with trails and an observation deck. In season we were allowed to hunt squirrel in the nature center on weekends. When I first asked the Superintended about permission he shrugged and said "Why not, it's public property. Just don't shoot towards the school." I walked to school. More than once I walked to school carrying a cased shotgun, box of shells and a note. The note said "Please let Jeff ride bus #6 to his Grannys house as he is going hunting after school." I'd give the shotgun and ammo to the Principal to hold until after school when I'd retrieve them, clime on the bus and head for Grannys. Then walk or hitchhike the 6 miles home.
1st day of deer season is STILL an official school holiday. Now they call it a Teachers Service Day but it's odd how it always falls on the 1st day of deer season.

 

[feralmerril]

When I went ta high school a guy somehow got locked in the dressing room at the end of the day without his cloths locked in the adjacent room. He knew there was a dance that night and knew they would unlock the room he was in to use as a cloak room. He was in a fix. All he had was a towel. He thought I can use the towel to cover myself, OR, maybe use it ta cover my head, run through the crowd and nobody will know who I am. Finaly someone opened the door and he ran through the crowd amoung the shrieks and cat calls, beat to his car and home.
He was pretty happy with himself and thought he`d go back and listen to what everyone was saying. He went back to the dance, everyone quit talking, even the band stopped. Finaly everyone broke out in laughter and finaly a guy yelled out, "Nice try Red!"

 

[amazingflapjack]

I noticed that almost all of the Masacres like the one in Colarado a few years ago happened in schools and areas described as "affluent." I thought at the time that if someone came into my school dressed like the two that perpetrated that mess, they wouldn't have gotten far, or done so again, and there wouldn't have been a need for any school official or police, but that was then, and this is now. "In the last days, "things" will wax worse and worse..." Flapjack.

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

I graduated from high school in 1959. When I was in the 7th grade, (53-54) we took "metal shop" which consisted of working with sheet metal and sand casting of aluminum. (Can you imagine doing that today?)

Well, guess what we made out of aluminum? 1911 GMs and P-1908 Lugers! (Again, can you imagine that today?)

It was just a different time.....wasn't it?

 

[mac2]

I graduated from high school in 1959. When I was in the 7th grade, (53-54) we took "metal shop" which consisted of working with sheet metal and sand casting of aluminum. (Can you imagine doing that today?)

Well, it I can remember it from 82-83 (yes, I know - still quite a while back)