Meanwhile, In a Russian High School.........

[Medic!]

I liked your post because I agree with it, not because I "like" it.

I don't like it either.
It's sad we don't have the will.

But we seam to place more importance on protecting our children from the harshness of the world.

Than we do in preparing them for it.

 

[rdb241]

Hahahaha..........Grade school in 1985! I had been out of high school for 6 years by then. Back in the 50's & 60's my Dad would go to high school during hunting season with a rifle in the back window of his pickup, and never locked the doors!

 

[Diamondback]

Yeah, I was born a few decades too late... don't hold my being under 40 against me, I've usually hung with folks over that line.

 

[Medic!]

All is not lost!

When there kids are playing with their guns.
We can actually afford to teach our kids how to shoot.

 

[rdb241]

Yah! I love the double taps.

 

[Libertas7]

I don't like it either.
It's sad we don't have the will.

But we seam to place more importance on protecting our children from the harshness of the world.

Than we do in preparing them for it.

It seems to me that preparing them for it would be the best form of protection. Of course I'm just weird.

 

[wired]

My wife went to school in the old Soviet Union and they had to do the same stuff. Break down an AK and reassemble it even blindfolded. They squeezed the class somewhere in between advanced communist theory and Atheism 101. To be honest all the girls did it and then went back to being girls immediately afterwards. It wasnt a life changing event

 

[billdeserthills]

You know, if we had THAT for PE then I would have *liked* gym. Deadliest we ever got was some really wicked Dodgeball.

We always called it 'smear the queer' I don't know if any of the smeared were really queers tho

 

[Diamondback]

We always called it 'smear the queer' I don't know if any of the smeared were really queers tho

Try being the chunky kid in glasses and having some big-muscles-little-pecker jock repeatedly aim FOR your glasses... while playing with BASKETBALLS, and the arsehat musclebound brainless oaf instructor ruling it "Accident", repeatedly... like THREE times in a class. 3x in one period, that's a PATTERN...

 

[wired]

I remember when the teacher made us change the name from "Smear The Queer" to "Kill the Man with the Ball". No other changes.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

I don't like it either.
It's sad we don't have the will.

But we seam to place more importance on protecting our children from the harshness of the world.

Than we do in preparing them for it.

That's well said!

 

[billdeserthills]

I remember when the teacher made us change the name from "Smear The Queer" to "Kill the Man with the Ball". No other changes.

Turned out our coach was the queer, so I skipped PE 6-8th grade

 

[PaulB47]

It's sad we don't have the will.

This is a bit far into collective-speak if you ask me. It's not that "we" have will or not. Some do, some don't. What is really going on here is that the people in the institutions are serving their own interests, which happen to be counter to our own. That's all.