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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Bingo!
Back in the day, Mom and Dad had a talk with me and my siblings: "don't get into trouble at school and complain to us about it, because if you do you'll be in twice as much trouble at home". And they meant it.
Back then, the behavior "problems" most prevalent in our high school was chewing gum in class, running in the halls, and being late to class. A few girls got in trouble for wearing skirts above the kneecap and/or wearing blue jeans.
How does that stack up to today?
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Hm - today it's pretty mild compared to the year before I attended high school. 1975 was the year of the "race riot." It wasn't really, but that's how it got described in the newspapers. It was actually started because of a drug deal. The buyer didn't want to pay. I don't remember if the buyer or the seller was white but one was, and the other was black. The white guy insulted the black guy's girlfriend, and all hell broke loose. Over 25 people were arrested, including students from another high school in another town who came over to fight when they found out it had begun.
There was another race riot in 1969.
When I was in Junior High, I got beat up in the gym by a bully because she "heard" that I thought her boyfriend was cute. It was true, I did think her boyfriend was cute. I don't know why she should be upset by that - that's some bragworthy stuff right there, that your boyfriend is not only cute, but other people agree. But she beat me up over it.
Another girl beat me up on the bus because she thought I didn't like her. She ended up suspended for a few days for that incident. Thankfully it ended well - she thanked me for getting her a few days off from school and offered to beat anyone up on my behalf, if I ever needed it done.
Drug dealing was a daily occurrence. During any given class period, you could find people behind the school under a cliff next to the shopping plaza buying, selling, or smoking pot/hash/hash oil. High school kids were dosing out on LSD and windowpane on Friday nights, or getting drunk at the bowling alley because the bartender didn't card anyone there.
Most kids were decent kids. But to say that nothing nefarious ever went on when you were a kid, is pretty ignorant. I mean that word in the strictest sense - ignorant means unknowing. You didn't know about it - but it happened. In every school district in every state in the country, there were kids doing pretty horrible things, and there were kids doing stupid things, and there were kids doing things they weren't supposed to do, whether they were "bad" or not.