BTW, the teacher that really put that whole production together back then was my teacher...She had some help from the other 5th grade classes with their students in the production, and we took it around the whole district in Pasadena that year...
She still works for the district...She doesn't teach anymore from what I hear, but she still works...As the librarian in one of the schools in Pasadena...
I went and visited her last year...She immediately remembered me, and couldn't stop crying for some time after we started talking about what had transpired over the years after I left her class...We still meet every now and then for lunch...And once she asked me to come in and talk to some of the classes coming in to the library about countries history, its government and who defends it...Needless to say it was a great experience...
These kids are hungry for things like this...They need it...And my former teacher was glad someone came along for her that thinks like she does...And not be hampered by PC, and academia...
I guess the bottom line is that its really not about the guns I suppose...
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- Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:57 pm
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I remember when I was a little kid in the 5th grade, we had a school play where we did scenes in American History, which included a song and dance number for the girls, from the roaring 20's...
Of course a few of the lucky guys (and me) were tagged as mobsters, acting as bodyguards around the stage, complete with some very realistic Thompson machineguns...It was a really neat part of the production...One that I remember vividly to this day...
We all had these neat pinstripe suits, the fedora hats, replica 45's and the "tommy guns"...
No big deal, everybody loved the whole production, especially the roaring 20's number...
We had civil war skits, Lincoln's Gettysburg address, revolutionary war scenes, and modern history skits...And if firearms were a part of the time and event, then they were included...No big deal...That was all back in the late 60's and early 70's...
I recall that later that year, we actually had probably one of the last "Halloween" celebrations at school...I wore my outfit and brought my guns to school...No big deal...So did a few of the other guys too...
The teachers obviously thought I was still the cutest thing since sliced bread...Which I hammed up very well...What can I say...
I feel sorry for the kids today...And it has nothing to do with what we were encouraged to do in school back then...
The most serious thing that used to happen was a cafeteria fight, or somebody getting "pops" for getting caught chewing gum in class...
We're allowing the "system" to educate the fight out of our kids these days...And its not about fists, and knives and guns...
It has to do about passing on to the kids to use their heads as they grow up...You don't have to rebel, or question everything...Just develop some common sense...
Heck, I used to be a bit of a pill in school...Got my butt whipped every so often...But I gfigure I am ok, because I developed into someone who could take a step back, still face the issue at hand and figure out a way to solve the issue, or wrap around it and make it work for me...
I don't think thats going to develop anymore with folks coming up behind us in this country...It may take 100 years after I'm gone, but there just doesn't appear to be any attempt to change that direction we are heading down...
I almost can't even put one word on how to describe this trend...
Of course a few of the lucky guys (and me) were tagged as mobsters, acting as bodyguards around the stage, complete with some very realistic Thompson machineguns...It was a really neat part of the production...One that I remember vividly to this day...
We all had these neat pinstripe suits, the fedora hats, replica 45's and the "tommy guns"...
No big deal, everybody loved the whole production, especially the roaring 20's number...
We had civil war skits, Lincoln's Gettysburg address, revolutionary war scenes, and modern history skits...And if firearms were a part of the time and event, then they were included...No big deal...That was all back in the late 60's and early 70's...
I recall that later that year, we actually had probably one of the last "Halloween" celebrations at school...I wore my outfit and brought my guns to school...No big deal...So did a few of the other guys too...
The teachers obviously thought I was still the cutest thing since sliced bread...Which I hammed up very well...What can I say...
I feel sorry for the kids today...And it has nothing to do with what we were encouraged to do in school back then...
The most serious thing that used to happen was a cafeteria fight, or somebody getting "pops" for getting caught chewing gum in class...
We're allowing the "system" to educate the fight out of our kids these days...And its not about fists, and knives and guns...
It has to do about passing on to the kids to use their heads as they grow up...You don't have to rebel, or question everything...Just develop some common sense...
Heck, I used to be a bit of a pill in school...Got my butt whipped every so often...But I gfigure I am ok, because I developed into someone who could take a step back, still face the issue at hand and figure out a way to solve the issue, or wrap around it and make it work for me...
I don't think thats going to develop anymore with folks coming up behind us in this country...It may take 100 years after I'm gone, but there just doesn't appear to be any attempt to change that direction we are heading down...
I almost can't even put one word on how to describe this trend...