On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:25:10 +0000, Alang
wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:03:53 -0000, "Ivan"
>wrote:
>
>>
>> wrote in message
>>news:253c6c5c-30d0-4080-b4c1-01269a3e8def@n77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>> On 22 Mar, 12:12, "Ivan" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes your perfect classroom world chucked out such
>>> delights as the Krays and Myra Hindley.
>>>
>>> Take you nostalgic rose coloured specs off.
>>
>>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.
yes, that's all very well....but did you ever hear of one of them
taking a stone out of the hoof of a disabled horse...?
probably they didn't know what the knife was due to lack of
education and initiative
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