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Today I'm babysitting my 6yo because her school is closed because of a online threat.

I remember my school days of over 50 years ago here in ky, where my graduating class was 32 kids

Long before all the small high schools were consolidated into one large school.

And I wonder if the big schools are not a problem themsevles?

In these mega schools only the best get an opportunity to play sports. Clicks form over any thing and this depends into hurt feeling for many.

In my school we all knew each other and treated each other with respect.

In my 4 years of high school the bully's recieved proper attention from those who would not let them run over the week

I know because I had and took the opportunity to regulate the bullying of two different boys in my 4 years, never missed a day of school over it.

In today's schools I'd been in handcuffs but back then the teachers and principals could hear and understand what caused the issue and why a kid stood up. Today it seems the kids are forced to endure the Horse **** untill crisis mode

I'm not justifying what's happened just saying the classes are so big student teacher ratios so high kids slip through the cracks.

Seems to me back in small school America children were the priority today its head count and revenue

Rant over!
 
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ky wonder said:
Today I'm babysitting my 6yo because her school is closed because of a online threat.

I remember my school days of over 50 years ago here in ky, where my graduating class was 32 kids

Long before all the small high schools were consolidated into one large school.

And I wonder if the big schools are not a problem themsevles?

In these mega schools only the best get an opportunity to play sports. Clicks form over any thing and this depends into hurt feeling for many.

In my school we all knew each other and treated each other with respect.

In my 4 years of high school the bully's recieved proper attention from those who would not let them run over the week

I know because I had and took the opportunity to regulate the bullying of two different boys in my 4 years, never missed a day of school over it.

In today's schools I'd been in handcuffs but back then the teachers and principals could hear and understand what caused the issue and why a kid stood up. Today it seems the kids are forced to endure the Horse **** untill crisis mode

I'm not justifying what's happened just saying the classes are so big student teacher ratios so high kids slip through the cracks.

Seems to me back in small school America children were the priority today its head count and revenue

Rant over!
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Well when I went to Catholic grade school in the 50s every class from kindergarten to 8th grade had at least 60 kids in it. Those nuns took no prisoners. Then the catholic high schools had a big populate. Yes it was a much different (better)? time
 
Everyone has been a victim of bullying or has been a bully in some form

at one time or another in their lives.

Yes, there was a time when it was dealt with mano-y-mano. These days are gone. Bullies travel in packs like wolves...there is no such thing as a fair fight or as my dad used to say "the only fair fight is the one you walk away from...one way or another." You beat up one bully now and I guarentee you'll be dealing with eight to ten of his friends in short order.

In today's culture, the bully is seen as a go getter who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. This is why you see so much of it today. Bullying is openly encouraged in some cases....in others it is treated with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge. I see it in business every day.

This mindset will not change and is what I see leads to many cases of violence both in schools and in workplaces. That andd a society of imbeciles who believe they are entitled to everything and are insulted by everyone...this is bullying itself, but a different kind.
 
Smaller schools, in my view and experience, do indeed permit students to be much more of a "big fish in a small pond". Individual attention from teachers, social activities, dare I mention discipline, are the positives in my mind. Unfortunately, the consolidation of districts for whatever reasons has had a definite down side.
 
Be careful what you wish for. I live in a town of 1,200 people and we have our own elementary school. Most all towns here have their own community schools...some are so small that 2 grades to a class is the norm. This comes at a cost. The people flocking south for low taxes would revolt if they had to pay the cost of small schools.
 
Sheep dogs still need to protect the sheep from the wolves.

My son is 9, he knows to walk away from words and don’t start it. He also knows to defend himself or his sisters if necessary.

There’s no such thing as bullies, just a lack of fathers in the home and parents allowing their kids to be victims. Being a victim is popular these days.
 
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Not an issue for me. I went through a smallish rural school district, and I’d guess at least half of my high school graduating class had been classmates together since the first grade. Sort of one big family.

Probably not that way there today. All of the former local grade and high schools have now been consolidated into a mega-school campus complex that draws from a far larger area.

I had a little unusual grade school experience. I am one of probably few still living who actually went to a one room schoolhouse. First and second grades were combined and the wood framed building dated from the 1880s. Heat came from a coal-fired potbellied stove, and it had boys and girls outhouses. Air conditioning? Ha! No indoor plumbing, just a single faucet in the playground, which was just a bare field. No swings or slides. At least it did have electric lights. It was torn down after I finished the second grade there. Although it was long, long ago, I still remember every detail about that place.
 
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Fatherlessness has become the norm, single mother households have become the norm, teenage pregnancy is fashionable, schools are used as daycare centers.
The disciplinary power of school authorities has been eroded, all the old informal methods of dealing with troublemakers-having a bully duke it out with someone bigger and stronger-you're harming his self-esteem !
Then there's drugs.
 
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I agree and the way schools are funded is ridiculous.I played along with my wife and lived in an expensive area to please her. It wasn’t until my kids were in school that I realized how much better the schools were than in the areas around us
 
Rob613 said:
Sheep dogs still need to protect the sheep from the wolves.

My son is 9, he knows to walk away from words and don’t start it. He also knows to defend himself or his sisters if necessary.

There’s no such thing as bullies, just a lack of fathers in the home and parents allowing their kids to be victims. Being a victim is popular these days.
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Rob613, I must respectfully disagree. Having dealt with juvenile bullies in the past on a professional level, I have found in 99% (yes, 99% in my book) of those bullies had parents that were just like them (or worse) and often encouraged the kids' behavior.
 
Rob613 said:
There’s no such thing as bullies, just a lack of fathers in the home and parents allowing their kids to be victims. Being a victim is popular these days.
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Can't go with that. Maybe we had more outright psychos on the loose when I was in school in England.
 
My kids all graduated from 1998 to 2003, from a school with 30-35 in the graduating classes. My youngest and his best friend were "The Anti-Bullys" when they were in 6th grade. They took no prisoners after the first warning! School ran smoothly until the graduated. Nobody took their place, there was also a change of administration. It became the inmates running the asylum!

Ivan
 
I went to Catholic school and those classes were small compared to public schools. We had bullies.

There are some kids who can't won't don't defend themselves for whatever reason and are targets for bullies. THat's just the way it is, and it's always been that way.

When I was 11 0r 12, I came home with a fat lip and shiner one day and asked my dad what to do or if he could do something about an older kid picking on me. That kid had been picking on me for weeks and I didn't do anything about it - "turn the other cheek" as it were. Not doing anything about it made things worse.

My dad was old school and told me it was my problem and I had to deal with it one way or the other. He told me that as long as I didn't start it, take care of the problem on the playground or after school, and he'd back me up.

About a week later, I took care of the problem at recess on the playground. The teacher sent me home with a note needing my folk's signature, saying I'd been in a fight and that I didn't fight fair(!).

It was true, I started the fight with a verbal barrage of insults, tossed sand in the kid's face and kicked the kid in the 'nad's. Oh, well. I was never bothered by anybody after that. I learned two things that day; 1. keep your mouth shut and deny everything. 2. there's no such thing as fair fight as long as I walk away.

On a side note, given how schools are today, I know that if I did what I did, said what I said with my defiant, non conformist and passive aggressive nature, I'd probably be on some list, in some sort of therapy and/or on some kind of drug if I was in school today.

I'm glad I grew up when I did and there were no cameras recording everything.
 
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Kids don't have 2 parents anymore. Mental health is a big problem. Social media is harming our youth. The list goes on and on.

Publicize every school shooting and turn the perpetrators into heros. Give everyone else ideas.

Turn off the 6:00 news and these shootings will decline.
 
if you said homeschooling 15 years ago, I'd have dismissed you as a crackpot whackadoo who didn't change their bong water since 1967.
Since then, public education has become the crazier option by wide margins. So much so, that my belief is that the schools should be closed.
 
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