May be Baby

[Barth]

[Planedude]

WOW, that's a lot of inconvenent truth in two frames...

[Armybrat]

On another message board somebody started a thread about school detention and discipline.
This was my contribution:

Up until 9th Grade I attended schools run by the DoD when my dad was in the Army. (Except for grades 4-6, went to a parochial schooling St.Louis)
We students were all disciplined enough to know not to misbehave in those schools.
After my dad retired from the Army in 1959 and we moved to Texas, I went to an all boys Catholic high school run by the Brothers of the Holy Cross.
There was NO messing with them…..two cases in point that I witnessed:

1) One classmate made a rude comment during religion class, so the teacher stopped his lecture, walked back to the offender's desk, punched him flat backwards onto the floor, then returned to the podium and resumed his talk.
We had to help the stunned kid up and put him back into his desk.
There were no comments from the dead quiet class.

2) During a class change one morning while walking back from the annex to the main building, a senior student somehow "got into it" (fisticuffs) with a teacher who literally knocked him out on the sidewalk.
Several students carried the semiconscious dude to the infirmary.
Later that day he was expelled from school. (That teacher was a former WW2 Marine before entering the seminary).
Different times 65 years ago.

[jeepster09]

Regular High School here, went to Arlington High, [suburb of Boston]. In science class you payed attention OR....the teacher would throw his trash can at you. I witnessed many a time....a trash can flying across the room and smacking a student that was sleeping. Kids learned to STAY AWAKE, DON'T SCREW AROUND, or Misbehave in class! Mr. Brennan ran a tight ship and as he said you were at school to learn! No one argued or complained, he was very clear of expectations.

[JohnR]

We had substitute teachers like that, one would whack a yardstick on her desk to get our attention.

[Armybrat]

We had substitute teachers like that, one would whack a yardstick on her desk to get our attention.

……."?

[Armybrat]

Look, a new way for 20somethings to get killed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fev5M_7Wnw&t=35s

[mr surveyor]

Look, a new way for 20somethings to get killed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fev5M_7Wnw&t=35s

not a lot of room to carry ammo for the Gatlin gun ...


jd

[getsome]

[QUOTE=Armybrat;450405]Look, a new way for 20somethings to get killed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fev5M_7Wnw&t=35s

I don’t know but that looks pretty cool, I’d try it……In my stupid younger years my buddy and I put our money together and bought an army surplus parachute and harness from Old Sarge Army-Navy and the guy never once asked what a couple of 16 year olds planned to do with the purchase……In our effort to fly we tied one end of a 100 foot rope to my cars trailer hitch and the other end to the harness and proceeded to try to get airborne……We found a huge open graded lot where they were going to build a factory and used it for flight testing..….The first few attempts didn’t go so well but we kept at it until we figured out that the person going up needed wheels so we got a bicycle and had the parachute guy sit on it until the car got going fast enough to let go and fly and damned if it didn’t work……I did most of the driving but got brave enough once to try it, the take off went fine but the landing was not so great but that flight time was awesome……Somehow we survived that with nothing more than scrapes and bruises……God loves fools and children I guess….

[dao]

You see, when you attend schools like that, and get discipline at home you learn right from wrong. And you are prepared to make a life in a tough world. Fast forward 50 years and the only thing a lot of students are being prepared for is how to be offended, and to huddle down in safe spaces. Like Mom's basement with a keyboard.