On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:21:07 +0100, abelard
wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:07:44 +0000, Alang
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:28:45 +0100, abelard
>>wrote:
>>
>>>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...?
>>
>>No but it was good for poking holes in leather to make a catapult
>>
>>>probably they didn't know what the knife was due to lack of
>>> education and initiative
>>
>>Sharpening pencils, cutting string, fishing line, carving a bit of
>>wood into a catapult, making a bow and arrows, slicing kindling to
>>make a fire to roast spuds on
>
>catapults and bows and arrows.....
>so you could kill at a distance?
>
>i'll bet you went round breaking old ladies windows as well!
>
I've been known to repair a broken window.
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