1950s - What The Baby Boomers Experienced 

Your post is so on the money..........

School is the same way everywhere

If you think it’s bad here you should check out the Korean schooling system. It’s insane. Luckily I was able to take AP and gifted classes that pushed us to think critically and write essays rather than just take multiple choice tests. I remember hating having to write those essays. I was super jealous of the multiple choice kids. But as an adult I feel sorry for them because they weren’t pushed to think for themselves. They were taught to consume and regurgitate info rather than formulate ideas in a creative and logical way.

As much as I agree with this logic I have one criticism. The common core "method", if you can even call it a method, is government overreach into the education process at an unprecedented level and almost equates to communist China and Soviet era education systems. The method described by this common core system have been proven to cause disinterest in learning the material, confusion of the purpose to the dozens of additional steps to solve basic math problems (let alone complex and long college grade math), and the disinterest of the common core agency to be held to public voting accountability to the schools and the parents of the students. The entire education system is abusing common core to transform schools into wheat grinding mills with children's grades as the product and their actual knowledge being an after thought. As long as they get their government checks for every student head.

Not true.

Yeah, no. My mom taught elementary school. I was a student at that school. There was misbehavior there, and there was misbehavior in HS as well. If you didn’t care about school, your behavior was likely bad. Some parents were strict, but others did not care, or were ineffectual. But, if you wanted your education, it was there. Many teachers were good at teaching. I do think more parents expected good behavior from their kids than now. Now, I think, many parents expect schools to raise their kids.

Boys not girls.

I am searching out these types of videos to make sure I didn't dream up a time when it was cool to be smart and kids wanted to learn, as well as play.

@stephenj.schneider5185 Well it wasn't in the 1950's. It must be a propaganda movie.

I agree with much of what you said. I’m also 73, and I always said to my Mom how LUCKY we were to have been able to grow up in a golden era of life, riding our bicycles, playing ball, and just “hanging out” during Summer vacation. I received an excellent Catholic grade school education, which laid the solid foundation for my high school/college education. I am a hospital pharmacist, forever grateful for all I’ve been blessed. 😅

My parents are boomers and this sounds like it might be why they don't get it. They think it's me making excuses and not being responsible etc etc. Really tho if they cared about me they would've listened and paid closer attention and been supportive, and HELPFUL, not dismissive . I'm wondering if there was something given to mothers in the 50s that damaged their brains and made them all sociopathic af. Zero empathy. Like @eminem 's mom is like my mom. I don't mean 2b rude I'm just tryna understand. It seems that life was so much easier for them so they expect us to do what they did and have no clue why we just won't. So they wipe their hands of it all and say we're adults now so we're not their responsibility 🤔 🙄 😰😨🥺

​@@Smith.S.sStocHasticSs My parents' generation were boomers, too: They'd have their friends, neighbours, colleagues around etc - and, with the exception of very few, they were all jackasses - even when I was a child I used to look at them all and think "Am I going to be like these people when I'm their age?". The biggest Ah*le generation that ever infected the planet

@@Smith.S.sStocHasticSs I was born in the sixties but my school in Texas was not like that. I learned very little until I could escape discrimination. Being biracial meant getting beat and harassed on a daily basis. My school had no library, no gym, no play ground or cafeteria. My mom was an undiagnosed autistic. She had no empathy and saw no need for me to learn to take care of myself. I tried to rectify that for my daughter. She went to the best school I could manage. She started gifted and talented classes in third grade. I never said I washed my hands of her but I said she needed to be able to be independent and care for herself. When she was almost 14 I fell in love and she wasn’t having it. I waited a year to help her. Unfortunately my ex boy friend and mother teamed up to get her to reject and hate me. She left home at 16 to stay with my ex and finish in her high school. He said he wanted guardianship. I didn’t like it but relented and made arrangements. He never showed up to accept the responsibility. I attended my daughter’s high school graduation but was cut out. I would visit her at her college campus and she agreed I could take my place as parent and take her to dinner. My mother and I were estranged. My daughter called back and asked if Grandma could be included. If I had known what was going to happen next I wouldn’t have refused. My daughter uninvited me and told me she never wanted to see again. That was in 2013. I saw her last year at my mother funeral. My sister maintains pressure so my daughter will still keep the loyalty pact. I love my daughter and the door is always open. She graduated with a dual degree in Bio medical Sciences, Chemistry and a math minor. I helped her with her homework when she was young. I was forever cut out of my daughters life. I know my mother was a sociopath. May she rot in her Karma. She took everything away that I achieved. Thanks for listening. I hope your mom doesn’t mean to be that cold. I know it’s harder on the youth than even when I was a youth. My parents had opportunities I never did. I am 61 and a widow. I want to help the youth and as a provider pass my knowledge on. I’m blocked at every turn. Good luck to you. Be strong and know that you have s contribution to make. You can do it!

@@karendalsadik7119 I feel you. I never had kids because of my schizoaffective disorder and opportunities were lacking for me. Also, people don’t always understand things that I do because of my cognitive issues that come with my disorder. This makes my confidence low. Because, I always feel like a failure and less than my neurotypical peers who don’t have my problems.

@@cindyeisenberg3273 I respect your decision to have or not to have children. However, it is so unfortunate that you’ve been given the message you don’t have any role to improve society. Some of my best teachers are not faculty but people who are diagnosed with a so called mental illness and are a part of the peer support or the old madness revolution.

I can't imagine where you grew up. My experience with school was very different and we had 30 + kids in each class too

I'm 77yrs. Wow, I grew up I'm Chicago. 30 in kindergarten, 40 in 1st & 2nd grade, moved to parochial school, 40-60 in a class, not enough nuns, so lay teachers. With more kids entering each year. Moved to Wisconsin village, bussed to next town, 40+ every class, added mobile trailers til school added on too original building.

I disagree. Yes, our classes were large. They still are around 30 in a class. My schools in the 50s and 60s taught science, poetry, music, literature, foreign language, mathematics etc etc. Today no music or art. We need children whose parents let teachers teach. We had no kindergarten. We watched the moon landing. We learned and behaved in classes. Those needs, more buildings and teachers are still needed.

I did not have a ton of science until Jr, High, but definitely took science as a grad requirement. I chose Biology in my Junior year, I think. I was never interested in math and chemistry, so opted out of higher math and chem. I did learn a lot in my Lit classes, where I believe I learned how to do critical thinking, and in my history and government classes. I am shocked at how ignorant some younger folks seem to be about both. My school district was in a lower middle class area; we were not an affluent area.

I am 77 also and agree!

There's a great little paperback novel, a la Rockwell, called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. I just finished my copy… loved it.

Apparently, in Shakespeare's time, all that was taught in school was Latin. Nothing else.

I took 4 yrs Latin in high school, flunked it year 1 because teacher wanted us to speak it, moved out of State, took it 3 more years-aced it every year, just Grammer & translation. Also French grade 7, 1960-JFK initiative. Agreed helps with English, grammar and Medical terminology.

6 years of Latin . I started Latin class in the 7th grade. Our teachers made it a lot of fun. In our public Elementary school in 1969 I started French in 4th grade. Others studied Spanish. Our High school offered Latin , French, Spanish German, Russian , Chinese and Japanese. I basically taught myself Spanish because of the Latin. I went to an excellent public school but 10 miles down the road, the schools were crumbling and without supplies. I used to get the old books from my school and bring them there. Why the discrepancy in education? Schools were paid by property taxes and kept in the districts where they were raised. It was the Yankee iteration of separate but (un) equal. This was changed by voter referendum in the Mid-70s by bringing in gambling and a state income tax. Never really solved the problem, though the disparity is less extreme.

I can remember being left home alone at age 4. Sometimes for an hour, maybe two. "Don't touch the stove." That's all she'd say.

Just what system wanted.

Almost seems created that way except for your father dying. My condolences it must have been difficult.

All kids are pushed towards colleges now, and even if they are not at college level after graduating high school. Twenty year young men and women are seeing that a college degree often means debt and no job.

TRUE!!! And the Gen X and YMs are buying into (literally) the same myth that we are a democracy, a republic! HA! The truth today, however, is that the United States is neither a democracy nor a republic. Americans are ruled by a corporatocracy: a partnership of “too-big-to-fail” corporations, the extremely wealthy elite, and corporate-collaborator government officials. When the young peple figure this out, maybe like us ... when they are in the 50s and 60's ... it may just be FAR too late! China is the sleeping dragon and it is waking up!

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, it really does appear that there are some very powerful, often unseen players around that are negatively influencing the lives of more and more people (including ourselves) ; don't you think? I believe that our best bet is to work together to handle these challenges. These conversations can help us become smarter, individually, and as a race; so that we will be capable of meeting our challenges.

wrong. The debt came from the budget cuts on the entire educational system. I think you used slight of hand to hide the massive broken social contract that now leads kids into being super poor or take on massive debt for a shot at a career.

Haha not just Americans

Ok Boomer

Wow. Talk about a mindless reply. @@tdlkorbt100henry

I’ve never heard of that either.

I went to kindergarten in the afternoon shift. It must have been 3 hours (seemed like a full day to me).

⁠kindergarten was from 9 am till 11:30. Another section of kids did afternoon 12:30 till 3 p.m. shift. 40 + kids a class was typical.

Internal corruption by traitors and redesign of the Educational system to deliberately dumb down students.

Diet. Inflammation of the brain.

we started making everything free

because the internet gives stupid people a voice

Linda Casey what does that even mean

Same here, but finished high school in a private boarding school in Toronto where the education standards far exceed the US Catholic schools I attended. It was a great experience and eye opening re education standards between the two countries.

Same here. Had to go to Latin mass 6 days a week and the most strict nuns EVER! I didn’t want to go to Catholic HS, went to public school. No more uniforms! I was so far ahead I graduated Jr. year.

The parochial and private schools were always superior to the public schools.

I got a great education in my Catholic high school too! U.C.L.A. Bound!

@@user-hl4jj3hb4h Not a chance in hell are those exams and requirements going to return to what they were in the 1960s and early 70s. Not with DEI the new defacto Affirmative Action.

​@@jimfesta8981God forbid we try to lift up those who've been given very little in life

Exactly.

Z Monster ok im a high school student right now. Got any advice so this doesnt happen to me?

@@ameliar6374 Never take Biology. Then you will never learn a "useless skill like dissection". If you get a Criminal Justice degree, plan on being a Police Officer. lol, but seriously, Amelia, go to the Dept of Labor Statistics website, and look at their projections for future job growth. Pick a career that is growing. Try to find something that takes a little hardship or brain power to get a degree in, so you eliminate a good amount of competition right there.

Robert Treasure i actually have done that but at the same time I’m almost most definitely going to follow a career path in the arts, but at the same time want a plan B

@@ameliar6374 Do not pursue a college degree in the arts unless your family is very comfortable financially and willing to support you indefinitely. Even the most successful people I know from art school have needed some sort of cushion from time to time. Even with a degree from a prestigious school, finding steady work can be a challenge. I would recommend getting a degree in something with projected growth that would enable you to have time to build yourself up creativity while still having a stable income. I can understand that feeling like too much of a compromise when you feel so strongly about the arts, but you will find time for your passion if it's something you care about enough to want to do it for a living. Art education is widely available outside of a degree program. Plan B (if you choose to get a degree in the arts) is any way you can think to channel your creative skills and find out which jobs appeal to your interests and skills. What seems not boring to do for a job to you personally and how do people get those jobs? Schools just want your money and aren't going to tell you that the degree you're paying for with massive debt might be more trouble than it's worth in the long run.

Ari M thanks for the advice. These are things I’ve been thinking about for a while now since I’m now in my last year in high school. I specifically want to work in the fashion industry, and I know it to be a competitive industry but at the same time its something I’m so passionate about that it would be depressing if I decided on a different path. I’m also a realistic person and don’t want to be a starving artist so this is why thinking about my future can get a little worrisome. Thankfully I do hail from a somewhat financially strong family; We’re not rich but we do better than average, so I do feel as though I have a cushion to land on if I need it. I also have the added advantage of growing up in one of the highest ranking school districts in my state and my school has a lot to offer to its students. If I was going to explore a different career path I would be interested in either medicine, architecture, or environmental science, but I would definitely never cast off my dream of being a designer entirely. With all these interests it makes me wonder if I have to limit myself to working in strictly one field or if theres a way that I can incorporate all of them someway, but then again I know theres a difference between a hobby and a profession. There are also some articles I’ve read from the Harvard business review that were rather thought provoking for me. These are it if you’d like to read them (I’m rather interested in your opinion): hbr.org/2016/10/why-i-tell-my-mba-students-to-stop-looking-for-a-job-and-join-the-gig-economy hbr.org/2017/04/why-you-should-have-at-least-two-careers

Same time period here. In those days, Catholic schools depended on homework. In public school I almost never had homework to do until 9th grade. But most teachers seemed to take the time to address each kid's needs. The Catholic school kids, on the other hand, always had homework. I think their philosophy depended on the household enforcing discipline - kind of a Catholic thing.

Parents or older brothers or sisters should have helped you. Did mother or father go to parent teacher meetings to discuss any problem?

@@hydrolito I never heard of parent/teacher meetings except on TV later in life. I don't think my Catholic schools Had parent-teacher meetings (1958-1970). Both my parents worked full time. I am the oldest sibling of four. I never thought about the parent-teacher thing. It will be added to my letter to the Diocese of Cleveland Education Ministry letter. They had no guidance counselors either. A mind IS a terrible thing to waste. Mine was wasted for sure. Oh well. It's 50 years ago. I think I'll start that long contemplated letter tonight. It will just put forth One question to them: Do you still ignore the kids at the bottom? Hey thanks a lot for the reply and the interest. -Kevin F. gaelicroc@yahoo.com

Wow amazing the only way I got a decent education in late 60s and early 70s was by going to Catholic schools.

Same. And I'm 25

My experience was much better, and I was a math major who became a teacher. However, l left teaching after 20 years because I could no longer stand to watch them keep watering down our curriculum year after year. I kept thinking how they couldn't have been doing a better job of destroying our schools if they had been doing it on purpose. To my surprise, I eventually discovered from Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt that they were indeed Dumbing Down America quite intentionally! She has videos here on RU-vid if you're interested in more information.

38 and agree...it only went downhill and look at it now lmao.

I'm a "boomer" who began his educational journey in a wooden schoolhouse where we were taught by very experienced "older" women who loved children. I attended a private prep. school where each student took an admission placement examination. My public school background placed me in the top 5%. Then it was on to a state university where the quality of instruction was excellent and the courses rigorous. Then on to professional school where the national entrance exam placed me in the top 0.1%. That got me a choice of schools and scholarships. I've since taught hundreds of "post-docs", published and otherwise contributed. Bottom line: No complaints here!

same here!! Sounds like my experience.

Really? You wouldn't know it from films like "Blackboard Jungle" or published articles such as "Why Johnny Can't Read" The overcrowding in schools resulted in a "cattle car" approach. Kids were expected to "sit down, shut up and behave!" as we were shuttled through our schooling years. Students were graduated from high school exactly the same way toothpaste is extracted from a tube. PRESSURE! Not pressure to excel, but pressure to just get THROUGH with almost no attention paid to quality of education.

⁠@@sylvisterling8782were you there? I was, and kids just knew how to behave. I also taught school for many many years, and behavior and interest in school activities just dropped throughout the years. Things weren’t perfect then, but in many areas, they haven’t improved and have gotten worse. I think I was happy enough when I went to school, but I had a good home life and a good (though not good beyond the norm) school.

let alone spell english.

College graduates can read

I couldn't agree more about learning to read and learning a lot by rote. There were about 35 kids in my first grade class. My teacher was severe-- enough for me to notice at age 5. (Kindergarten was not in schools then-- only private ones in houses.) I actually graduated with a guy who couldn't read! How was he passed on and on? I did know he memorized a lot of words but still? I became an elementary teacher and I did teach reading. Phonics was probably the worst program ever but teachers have no say in what is being taught-- the BOE does. Thank you David for another thought provoking post!

Mary Light stealing money from others to pay for your education is not the role of government.

Lol if it went back to that way the fat pigs wouldn't be able to swim in pools of money anymore!

@@BuyTheDip627 Is bettering the nation (including its youth, aka its future) not what taxes are for?

No no. Where are the mothers to teach these kids. One teacher cannot care for 60 kids.

Now politicians use children as leverage

krazo hills Born 1989, millennial lol.. good for you, my baby boomer parents did not had it too easy but they still talk about it beautifully, they often mention how hard working and genuine their generation was and how much they miss almost everything from back then. they’re from the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 greetings from here.

I was in South Kansas City in those days.

That "gr8 television" was entirely propaganda & created to conscript us to the policies then & yet to come. Just watched some "Bewitched" reruns. You could smoke on TV but not show a pregnant belly. Trained female's to be subservient & aim for no more than a clean house & happy husband. What a pile of shit!

@@mcsoto yo tambien

a wholesome comment

Marie Jackson I’m in high school now, and wow that actually sounds a lot like the active shooter drills my school has been doing since elementary school. In third grade we didn’t even think about why we had to prepare for active shooter situation and thought that if we just sit against the wall we’d be safe.

We had to wear dog tags, went out in the windowless hallway for air raid drills, but it was the Koreans that were out to get us. Even in kindergarten, I wondered, why Korea would want to bomb Cleveland.

I’m 40 and we did this in school . I remember being terrified of Russia. Most boomers have no idea how long this lasted

Christel Headington what elementary school in Cleveland? Shaker?

I do !! And today for me it's like I live through a dream it was real we lived in terror in school about the atomic Bond how we could survive yeah under the table oh falling on the ground

You wouldn't like the answer to that question.

science at odds with religion in this country too. science is not respected

The narrator's voice is Forensic Files Peter Thomas...may he RIP.

Ok Boomer

Or they were of Caucasian descent!

​@@joelouie5649Seriously, Maybe they were Black!!

I am the same age as you, and you are right about the two-tiered system. Wood and metal shop classes along with general ed classes were for us students who were not college bound.

I think it had more to do with ability, interest and ambition. I say Ymir’s as the daughter of a ww2 disabled vet and a waitress mother. I worked hard and wanted to learn. Not to disrespect your experience just saying mine was different.

I am similar to you mate

It's not just libtards but all who just sit around and DO noting about the politicians who are ruining us, AGAIN. This isn't new to our nation! We've had equally bad times in the 1800s AND 1700's! Study history more. We do have a chance of getting rid of the morons who ran bills throgh into laws, while being paid under the table by their new masters! THAT has to stop and NOW .. NOTHING is too big to fail, not even the USA.

This is SUCH a shibboleth. Rote learning is ESSENTIAL to master basics of foreign languages, grammar, mathematical algorithms. Since Plato, intelligent educators have known there is a learning window in development between ages 5 and 7 where the mind learns quickly and builds up critical masses of fact to do higher level operations. E.g. you can't "think for yourself" about history if you don't know a basic amount of fact; or do algebra without having internalized multiplication tables; or speak a language without memorized vocabulary. Rote learning is not SUFFICIENT but it is NECESSARY. A distinction few seem able to grasp. Not to mention there are more and less engaging ways to do the rote work.

I agree. I think after a certain age you know if you are going to be a doctor or not. Start preparing for the real world.

Eh. Most kids just go to advanced classes now. But I don't think skipping grades helps kids socially. Cu what does a 15 year old have in common with a college student?

They used to separate the kids that way in the 1940s. My Father did not read well. Neither did his brothers and sister. Later on they were found to dyslexic. My Father graduated from East New York Vocational High School with a diploma in Metallurgy. He could do almost anything with metal. He didn't make much money when I was young. He had jobs as a welder and was a member of The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 as did my Grandfather. My Grandfather was in the plant maintenance department at Circle Wire and Cable in Maspeth Long Island. My Father worked wherever the union sent him. He made custom electrical panels for the the big buildings in New York City. There were no out the box panels for those buildings. It was dirty work as he got older he progressed out of the dirty work. We moved to Florida and the only work he could get was relining the insides of cement trucks by welding steel plates into them. He did that for about a year until a new company opened up manufacturing custom commercial equipment. This was much nicer work. All Stainless Steel. My Father was now in his 30s and he was a craftsman. He did it all. Measured the job up, ordered the materials, Shear and brake it, lay it out, weld and polish and then install it. Airport kitchens, synagogue kitchens, chain restaurants, hospital kitchens, etc. Even gambling casinos in the Caribbean. He could go out alone and hire local laborers and hang hoods. He was in demand and was always getting telephone calls. He was a certified welder for nuclear power plant piping. He made a lot of money. Enough to support a wife and 8 kids. And no educational debt. We need industrial arts schools to train the non-academic students so they won't become lay-abouts or prisoners.

There's a great little paperback novel, a la Rockwell, called Jordy, Bounce, and Lilli, that captures the flavor of the post- WWII era through the lives of two small children and their cat. I know it's available on Amazon. I just finished my copy… loved it.

Nolan Burkhart “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers” -Rockefeller 1913 (Founder of the Department of Education)

Same with me. I was reading thousand page books in the 6th grade. By the time I taught college I had semiliterate students in my class.

Ur all a bunch of fatasses who took everything, here have another jelly doughnut. … ass hole

The earth is flat. Oh i bet you think we actually landed on the moon too! 😂

Sure our school system is the pits, always has been...it was originally designed to churn out factory workers and mid level managers at best... and it hasn't changed since its inception... Public education was never meant to make entrepreneurs or intellectuals. But having said that statistically IQ's have been rising. Kids today are smarter than they were in the 1970's, if you believe the IQ statistics.

The crux of the issue is that education is still focused on the instants results rather than the underlying long term. Sure, there's 30+ to classrooms, but that wouldn't have been an issue, if it became common place for the faster students to help the slower ones. The smarter ones could be challenged with the task of communicating information and dealing with a different perspective, and the slower students could get the attention they needed as well as gain more of a desire to learn, all while the teacher could act as more of an overseer. Wasn't that how it worked early on in schoolhouse history with having multiple grades in the same classroom?

The earth is flat. Read the oldest book called the Bible.

+Bosly Porshy I definitely agree its about instant results rather than long term learning.. but I think schools today focus too much on memorization rather than thought. its just parroting back what you learned for a standardized test. if learning isn't fun then its not effective in my opinion.

@_egas calybird Except after the fall of Rome good times didnt arrive for thousands of years. Look at Asia, the Chinese Empire remained the pinacle of civilasation for thousands of years and never fell into the tragic ruins Europe fell. Europe was simply very unlucky the Empire that kept them secure failed by its own mistake (Fighting on too many fronts)

Did you even watch the video? This video is about how boomers started with many disadvantages, and how they worked together to improve things. Millennials can do the same.

Overcrowded and under-equipped schools. Overworked and underpaid teachers. Disengaged students. Poor quality of curriculum. It seems like they had a lot of the same problems that the current education system has.

@@MsJudi54 I personally think everyone here is kind of missing the point, we should learn from both sides and their disadvantages and use them to better the mistakes each has made or in other words fix what multiple people, not just boomers or melienials have done, we should focus less on blaming the other side and more on what is happening and how to fix it and avoid it in the future, I don't mean to disrespect you but bringing up stuff like your daughter's success or how Bruce Wayne brought up the recession in 2008 are basically doing the opposite, you both are too busy trying to blame the other side or prove them wrong And I know that maybe you two can't do much, or you can but fighting in comment sections on social media won't fix anything, being from gen Z I feel like I don't have a say but maybe this reaches out to someone and helps them not to be rude due to problems that can be fixed if we stop fighting. So maybe if Bruce replies this helps you to not to blame or try too hard to disprove using someone else's experience, I mean no harm by saying this and I hope you have a wonderful day.

What? Sorry I was updating my facebook/instagram/tinder/snapchat to show everyone that follows me the food I ate/opinion on (insert reality TV show here)/fascist ideology that is called Anti-fascism, to listen. There is the problem, let's fix it.

I was born in the last year of the baby boom and had a similar experience. Although my own family wasn't particularly wealthy, we happened to live in one of the country's wealthiest and highest-rated districts. The facilities and teachers were wonderful and I feel especially lucky to have had access. And yes, the taxes were high and some of our neighbors complained about it but I notice they didn't opt to send their kids to private schools because really, none of the ones in the area were as good as our public high school. A top-notch education isn't cheap and if we believe in our country, we should be willing to pay taxes and invest in the nation's future through its education.

D. Garbato we had 30 per class in NYC boro of Staten Island

Definitely depended on where you lived. I'm too young to be a boomer myself, but I currently live in the same school district where a boomer friend of mine grew up. I'm grateful I never went to the school she attended; it was horrible. And not for lack of funds, but for lack of good teachers. Another school not far away had all the best teachers in the area.

I was born Nov17,1948 in southeast Virginia. Went to school there and we always had enough teachers.

Most of my classes had about 30 students. My calculus class only had nine.

They never needed to be fixed. When I was in high school (64-68) , half the trucks in the parking lot during hunting season had a rifle or shotgun in the window rack. The only problems they caused were a few tardies when someone took too long checking out a new shotgun. None of those guns ever jumped off the rack and "went postal".

Cowboy, I recall bringing a pistol to high school in the 11th grade to show to some combat vet teachers in the parking lot after school. That was in the 60's.They didn't call the SWAT team, either.

In my humble opinion, it was the 1990's that was the real "nail in the coffin" for American society. The first nail started in the 1960's ( that's when the demoralization kicked in) , and by the 1990's the final nail was put in. Now? We have been on "overtime" since 2000. Since then we are really just a "skeleton society" similar to the term "skeleton crew"

You can thank Abe Lincoln for that.

narek: What exactly is an "assault rifle" or military grade? In the 50's & 60's many people had M1 Garands and M14's which was the exact gun the US military was using. My grandfather bought a surplus M1 from the military because it was exactly like the one he carried on Iwo & Guam when he was in the 3rd Marine Division. Those were full sized .30 cal rifles and many were sold directly to the public from military surplus markets. My friend's father still has an M1 that was actually used in the Korean war. Now the military has switched to a much smaller bullet .223 cal and you can not own an actual M4 that the military uses. The AR looks like the M4 but functions totally differently. The term "assault rifle" is made up & it makes no sense whatsoever. Assault is an action, it's a verb. Rifle is a noun, it's a thing. "Assault rifle" is??? An action noun?? Seriously, think about what you are saying. What makes any gun military grade? The steel? The plastic? The color? How fast it can fire? If that's what you mean, it's already very difficult to get something that is full auto. You need a special license and they cost tens of thousands of dollars.

And thank you Paul

Or about replacing something unfamiliar with something you know well or like. Like it solving word problems. If they use a baseball theme to figure that confusion out, replace it with how many dollies does Suzy have if Judy takes 12 dollies and Brenda takes 1 dolly. You know what I mean? How I despised and feared The Dreaded Math Word Problem. Now I love them and do them for fun. Logic Games. Go figure.

Me and Algebra are still like rubbing two magnets together. Just forget it.

Me too!

Thank you. It took my team and I just about one year of searching to find all these clips. Once we did, we knew we could make our “movie.” David Hoffman-filmmaker

Yes, I feel so sorry for those measly pensions you all get for teaching these kids gender studies, intersectional identity analysis, and communist theory.

Then you did not grow up in one of those suburbs that just exploded during that period of time. Across the country, tens of millions of houses were being built on formally rural farmland to create suburbs and overwhelm the local school systems. David Hoffman-filmmaker

Thank you Wes. David Hoffman - filmmaker

Thank you for your comment. But it does deserve an honest answer. It is true that generosity is one of my motivators. But RU-vid was a way for me as an independent filmmaker to make a bit of money from the content I created. Prior to that, there were DVD sales on Amazon, I did my best to make some money there. It has always been a challenge for an independent documentary filmmaker to survive and my colleagues think I was very good at it. So I work hard to present on RU-vid clips that my subscribers will find interesting enough and also pass muster with RU-vid and that has many challenges. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I do not. But I appreciate all those who give my clips a view. David Hoffman-filmmaker

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rocket scientists in those days were adults, like the famous werner von braun, a well known nazi who was invited by the US to work for them. even that didn't prevent russia launching sputnik way before america had a satellite..

I graduated in the early 00s and remember having a Home Ec class in HS but honestly, I don't recall doing a single thing. We certainly never cooked! HS was a waste of time. Most classes focused on learning dates or vocabulary words. I enjoyed my English AP classes, we had to do a lot of writing and there was a TON of vocabulary words to memorize but I actually still have a better vocabulary than most folks I know, so that was the ONLY class in HS that actually passed on useful skills!

I just graduated last May. The math classes were just rote algebraic equation memorization, no Euclid or the like to actually understand any of it. English basically boiled down to annotating the fuck out of three or so pieces at a time, which would be selected based on a common theme, and then writing an essay about our own opinions at the end using the essays as evidence. I suppose it would be useful to teach researching and critical thinking if it were earlier; but by junior or senior year, all the students either already knew it or were never going to learn it from school. So alot of time ended up wasted. Science required alot of 'lab projects', but these mostly boiled down to measuring things like 'how long does this car take to go down a hill at different angles'. And then for whatever reason, we had to write an essay on that too. That was most of it anyway, and then Physics decided to add math to the equation (no pun intended). That turned into a guantlet class that noone enjoyed. And literally the entire grade was in agreement that the teacher sucked. I found History/Social Studies/Political Science/Economics (they took the same credit depending on the semester) completely pointless until 8th grade. Then I got a string of REALLY good instructors, and they're the only core credits I came from school enjoying. Still do to this day in fact. The classes were a little American-centric for my taste, but most of the kids are sadly not paying half the attention I did. So the curriculum isn't the biggest problem at hand. I tried for Independent Living (my school's Home Ec), but I didn't wind up getting it. So I can't comment on that one. I spent alot of my electives on computer classes. Robotics, programming, and the like. The tech department had a pair of really good instructors at the helm, and I enjoyed the topics, so naturally it all was enjoyable to me. I found the classes a little on the easy side most of the time but I was also always skilled in those departments, so perhaps I'm not the greatest measuring stick.

I was born in 1999. This is what I learned in our current school system for Elementary School and High School. Math: All my teachers quit, so the coaches would take over the class and since they had no real knowledge or motivation to teach it, I have not learned long division to this day. (I'm in my second year of college.) Reading/Writing: Read a small essay/passage and answer questions about it. If you aren't good at writing, it's okay, you may create an essay that is completely made up of the same sentence except written differently every time and you will still be sure to pass easily. Science: Who's that? Oh, you mean the animal cell model I once made out clay? The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, right? History: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. seemed like nice guys, I suppose.

@@joanmadrigal1458 You have a fabulous wit; great comment!

Not far behind you in your assessment of the h.s. experience of that era and 50’s/60’s. You are spot on! The more I read and view things on RU-vid I’m shocked at all the innocuous info and lies we were taught.

It should be mentioned that only those born during the first six years of the baby boom were old enough to go to Woodstock.

We? No you were part of a vocal minority.

how many spirits were crushed by those freaks

Nuns were evil

Yes, I was in those 60-kid classes. I hated it then but I have to admit the nuns did a great of educating us.

There is only one real discipline - self. My crazed despotic teachers of the 50's taught me that the guy with the big stick has the power but not to be respected because I also found out they were not infallible and there is a converse side to unspeaking obediance.

You say that like it was a good thing. In my experience, those nuns were psychotics and sadists, who belonged in a cage -- or in Hell.

Mr. Magoo... I was sentenced to catholic school (no caps earned) in the 50's and 60's. I agree with you. The nuns punished my older brother, mimicked him, called him names (Gaum...a Gaelic word for stupid). He had Asperger's Syndrome and was sickly with severe asthma. Some shrivelled apple faced old biddy nun informed me that every time my brother did something to their disliking, I would be punished as well. I was. We were polite, quiet children who never spoke out of turn, never broke the rules, and did what we were told. Basically my brother was introverted, did not volunteer for anything, did not want to play recess games. He was the opposite of a trouble maker. Many of the nuns picked on him because he was different, not because he broke any rules. They even encouraged other kids to make fun of my him. Their vitriol ruined my brother's life forever. He still cowers like a scared puppy in his late 60's, fearful of being punished. He never left home, never had a girlfriend, never married. It took him until his early 50's to start enjoying life with less guilt. The only things that 12 years of catholic school accomplished was to hold me back socially (high school was boy's side, girl's side), made me hate the church, and make me wish that I should have doused some nuns in charcoal lighter and set them on fire. One old bitch with a white box on her head kept beating my left hand with a ruler in first grade for not holding the pencil in my right hand. My mother noticed the marks and had strong words with the nuns. I think that was the beginning of their vendetta against our family. I recall these nuns shaming us and shaking us down for money at least once a week in grade school. They had collections for ''Pagan Babies''. I wonder whee that went. Maybe it bought fuel for the jet helicopter that the Bishop of Los Angeles tooled around in. There was only one nun, sister Mary Thecla, from 7th and 8th grades who I admire and respect. She was the only ray of light for me in grade school.

Im glad you may have had a good experience with catholic schools, Canada has suffered due to religion at the hands of Catholics / Catholic Schools, Many of Native Americans of that baby boomer were tourtured, raped, beaten and stripped of any individuality and culture due to the nuns and priests who ran residential schools all across canada

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We had exactly one hour of that a week - it was called Catechism.

i went to parochial school. it ruined my life in so many ways.

What I didn't like about Catholic school is they almost never double promoted anybody (if ever). I got DP'd twice in public school (1A & 4B). I did get DP'd in catechism tho.' Skipped the 8th grade because I was starting HS in January and HS Catechism was at night.

I was bored too - but two double promotions and I was starred in every school play just to kill time - that helped. Magnet honors high school was fun and very challenging - and a 50 minute public bus ride downtown from age 13 - blizzard or not. Put an early and welcome end to being a coddled kid. That I liked.

Has there been time with out our soldiers fighting somewhere? WW II, Korea,Vietnam,Gulf war,Afghanistan,Iraq

And Gaza

Same

I didn't have a learning disability, I was incorrigible. I quit in the 10th grade because I wasn't there enough get anything out of school. I did work though and eventually It all clicked. I went into the Navy. I was already working for the telephone company when I was drafted. In 1985 Iwas laid off from AT&T and started a business. Now retired comfortably with my wife of 50 years. Work hard but work smart too.

@@robertcuminale1212 by the time I figured out I had made a mistake, I was married with 4 kids.. I did go back and got my GED.. I then tried to go to college, for early childhood edu. But with about 3 classes to complete, I started having severe pain.. back pain, and later hip pain.. I was forced to quit, due to pain getting worse.. Today, I'm on 3 different types of pain meds.. can't stand up longer than 4 minutes at a time.. Btw, you said in your reply that you don't have a learning disability.. I think it would be hard to understand how it feels unless you go through it.. Struggling to understand, remember, and comprehend what is being taught.. I tried very hard.. but the teachers I had, I don't think knew this condition like they do now.

I have schizoaffective disorder and problems learning. It wasn’t all great in the late 60’s and 70’s. I feel behind and took remedial classes later. Nobody was going to stop and teach the slow children. I actually hate learning because of it and it put a bad taste in my life about going to school or anything that I’ve ever had to learn. Even as an adult I have some problems with certain topics and have always taken, without exaggeration 5 times longer for me to learn. I am now completely disabled. Because, I can’t even keep up with technology. Things are going too fast for me to learn them.

@@cindyeisenberg3273 It takes longer for me too. I still struggle to understand, remember, and comprehend anything being explained to me. But I refuse to give up, and let this thing beat me, and keep me back from all that God has planned for my life. Right now, I'm writing my first book. I'm looking forward to holding my book in my hands, and proving to myself mainly, that I am an overcomer. I am not what they told me I was. I can learn, just at a slower pace than most. I will never give up.

@@Angie-GoneSoon That’s so good. I am sure that you are intelligent, besides. People have different kinds of intelligence. I always did great in English and health studies. I did get an Associates Degree in nursing and passed the coding test on the first try. But, after 42 years of working. The schizoaffective disorder beat me up. So, I am on disability. I can’t even deal with the anxiety and hallucinations. But, even so. I shouldn’t compare myself to others.

baby boomers have left a horrific legacy- middle class is dead; cost of college has gone up like 900%; student debt is over 1 trillion; we have the longest war in American history + several other wars and unlimited, trillion dollar military spending; we have Trump, George W to of the most buffoonest corrupt evil clowns; we have the Clinton's who enriched themselves, increased the amount of prisoners massively; they also passed NAFTA exporting American jobs; Bill Clinton deregulated Wall Street which led to the great greed crash that destroyed the American economy and two generations (mine, Gen X and the Millennials); baby boomers are also the richest generation in American history, but the first to leave their children worse of than themselves; baby boomers will never stop reaping, working; they pulled up the ladder of opportunity behind us; we have climate change catastrophe which the boomers have done NOTHING about- what a horrible time we live in that's the legacy of the boomers

I don't know anyone in my age group, stricklty those born in the 50's who are rich, what a laugh. So you are blaming an entire generation for all the problems in the world today? We have no say over who runs for office, and it's always rich , well off politicians who don't listen to the people but do what's best for themselves and their own agenda. People born in the 50's taught their kids the same attributes I mentioned above. We tried to warn everyone in the 60's already about raping the planet, no one listened, those in power did not care. Blame the politicians, not the normal average worker who was born in the 50's. That's a cop out.

Kathy Brinkman: I agree.

Kathy, your whole generation was and is funded by your kids wages.

You know nothing of numbers. Our generation put so much money into the SS fund ( I assume that's what you are talking about?) that there was a massive surplus, and the government decided to 'borrow' from it , use it as a slush fund. THAT is why there is a problem with SS. THEFT. My fifties generation , all the people I knew, as I cannot speak for those i don't know ( and neither can you) worked a full time job their whole lives. NO entitlement whatsoever. This is the last reply I am going to make to you sir. Have a blessed day.