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This is great emjane thanks for posting it and I will pass it along.

This is so typical of what the Liberals have caused to our culture!

Times have certainly changed. In 1957 the principal only had to worry about the local school board, now he's watched over by a raft of administrators local, state and federal. Before you get too sorry for the poor principal remember, he cant be fired for anything less than a felony. Neither can a teacher.

Emjayne- its Cosmic Connection! What a co-incidence that we would do posts on the same subject.

and its exactly the problem...we have become a culture that tolerates any measure of promiscuity or vulgarism, but panics at the least little sign of boys being masculine or parents punishing kids. It is hard to see a solution that isn't revolution.

Goshawk. thank you and yes it is the liberals who have done it

Skep Wasn't that a blast?? Cosmic Connection?
well, yes!

wil. I agree. I don't see any way to get back to sanity.

Who told you about my brother? There was, in fact an incident exactly like the one you describe here with Jeff in 1957, or maybe 1958, but it happened just that way. Things were so much simpler then, and most people used good old common sense.

Oh, and my brother's name is Jeff too.

Gee, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to tell on him!!
I haven't been in a schoolroom for ...oh wow more than 30 years! where does the time go!!
Anyway, I can't say, from my own experience, that these things are really so. I suspect some are exaggerated. But I hear reports of some of them and I don't know who's to blame. I know the union has too tight a hold. I suspect the 60's people are running the schools and it's a whole new attitude. I'm sure there are some with the old traditional ideas but you don't hear about them.
But the main thing missing is what you mentioned...common sense!!

When I read the part about getting hit by a parent with a belt, it brought back memories. Hell by the standards today my dad would be arrested, etc., but I grew up pretty good.

This is what the PC crowd is doing to America.

you hit the nail on the head! :-))
when my kids were in school, their father went to the nuns and said "If our kids need to get smacked you go ahead and do it!" Even then the nuns were amazed. Of course they never needed it in school. But they knew the threat was there.
When I was a teacher I never hit anyone but I would grab the boys by their hair. :-)) More on that another time !

I found this very entertaining emjayne! When I was a kid I was tore up with a wooden paddle that was called Board of Education. That was actually painted on it in bright red. Same color my butt used to get! It also had two cartoon characters bent over with their pants pulled down getting "educated". Haha! AND IT HUNG ON THE KITCHEN WALL!! Yup, times have sure changed.

I even remember when they bought it (that was a sign of things to come). We were at our favorite lobster/ seafood restraunt that we frequented. The place was a legend in New England (don't know if it's still there or not) and did so much business that there was always a huge line to get in. So the owners used big long tables with souvenirs on them you could buy, as a way to snake the line through the building. Stupid thing was on the table. 8- (

OK so where was the lobster restaurant?? Maine or Mass?
You must have been a handful! :-))

It's still going strong in N.H. Newick's Lobster House. A New England favorite since 1948. I lived at 295 Dover Point Rd, and it's located at 431 Dover Point Rd. I lived less than 1 1/2 miles from the H.H./ Maine border.

I LOVE lobster! For our 20th wedding anniversary a few years ago, my hubbie and I bought $600 worth of lobsters and steamers from Maine. Hey, if you can't splurge on your 20th, when can you?!

Oh em, my husband would confess that I'm STILL a handful! Put it this way, he's never bored. ;- )

OK husband's family has had places in York for
about 50 years. At one time there were 8 but it is down to two now. We spent a lot of time there during the summers. On the 4th of July there was always a big family gathering for his mother's birthday. Since she died there is still a cookout but not many family left between deaths and moving. Since we moved to FL we have gone to York every summer for a month or less and Newick's is one of my favorite places!! :-))
A few years ago I stopped on the way out to buy a lobster down the street. Coincidence??
A riot!

Did you see somewhere Purplegimp and I were talking and she said she was from Maine? It's a small world as they say.

Are you kidding me? Newick's is one of your favorite places?! NO WAY! I read that they just opened a new place in Concord N.H. which just so happens to be where I was born. Oh, and my oldest son Dylan's b-day is July 5.

An no, I didn't know the gimp's from Maine. Tis a small, small world.

And you live in Fl? SO DO I! I'm in Jacksonville. Where's your casa at? Now of all the states, the fact that you live in Fl, that IS a riot!

send me an email so I can get your address. to:

mjsullivan_81@hotmail.com
I would rather not put any more on here, ok?
put the name of the restaurant in the title so I will know it's you.