On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:03:53 -0000, "Ivan"
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>> On 22 Mar, 12:12, "Ivan" wrote:
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>>> I grew up in a pretty rough postwar inner city area and attended a boys
>>> only
>>> Secondary Modern school which was staffed by mainly (Welsh) ex-military
>>> type
>>> teachers who maintained an iron discipline.
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>> Yes your perfect classroom world chucked out such
>> delights as the Krays and Myra Hindley.
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>> Take you nostalgic rose coloured specs off.
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>LOL and of course in the last 50 odd years things have got oh so much
>better! and besides nowhere did I say life back then was perfect, however I
>don't think I'm in a minority in believing that since discipline was totally
>abandoned in favour of the soft options approach things in our schools
>haven't exactly improved, I mean can you name one school in the UK back then
>which had to install metal detectors to find out if kids were carrying guns
>or knives?
In those days it was quite okay to have a knife in your pocket. The
kids hadn't been brainwashed into thinking the only use for a knife
was a weapon. Indeed the boy scout motto was 'be prepared' and every
scout usually carried a pocket knife with a blade and a spike for
taking the stones out of the hoof of any disabled horse he came
across. I don't think there was a single boy at my secondary school
who didn't have a pocket knife. I never heard of one being used as a
weapon either. Chairs or school desks maybe but never a knife.
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