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Originally posted by sig226fan:
3. I did not dare lip off or act up around my dad. I could be an ass, but I wasn't a dumbass. Lesson learned: Do not mess with Dad.

This lesson was learned in the middle of a JCPenney when Dad told me quite clearly (clear as a bell to me, out of earshot for anyone else): "everybody likes a little ass; nobody likes a smartass." Do not mess with Dad.

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by sig226fan:
3. I did not dare lip off or act up around my dad. I could be an ass, but I wasn't a dumbass. Lesson learned: Do not mess with Dad.

This lesson was learned in the middle of a JCPenney when Dad told me quite clearly (clear as a bell to me, out of earshot for anyone else): "everybody likes a little ass; nobody likes a smartass." Do not mess with Dad.

I tell this story occasionally. One summer weekend day I had my Datsun in the middle of the garage at mom and dad's house finishing up a detailing job. Dad came home and asked when I'd be done so he could park his truck back in the garage. I popped off, he turned to walk away, and I hit him with the palm of my right hand in the middle of the back pushing him forward. He turned around and without saying a word walked toward me and landed a closed right fist in the middle of my chest dropping me face first onto the garage floor gasping for breath. He then walked away without ever saying a word. Forty plus years later I can still feel the cool concrete floor on my cheek. That one act knocked me down enough rungs on the ladder to force me back into reality. Sometimes reminding children they aren't the top dog they think they are goes a long way to ensuring they act like civilized human beings.

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Originally posted by architect:
Call me cynical if you wish, but this sounds very much like typical teacher union propaganda "home schooling is evil!" Wonder where the "news" is that kids learned more at home than they would have in Govt. schools (e.g. based on standardized testing)? If the reverse had been true, it would be all over the MSM!

No, it's very real.

I teach (and, no, we don't have a union) in a la-la land private school where kids say thank you everytime the leave the class, etc. We actually had to remind them this year to be polite. It's not like fights break out in the halls, but there has been a noticeable downward trend in behavior all the way through middle and high school. The elementary kids are relatively unaffected.

Academics have tanked, to say the least--and we've been back in school since the beginning of last year.

Everything in the OP's article is very real. The last kids who had an actual full year of real high school are seniors now. Two high school grades were online for their middle to high school transitions. The current juniors had a half a year of real school.

My school is paradise compared to most other places, and it's a sinking ship in many ways now because of the 'rona--and, again--we were only fully online for the end of the 2019-2020 academic year.

Online school was the worst thing for kids possible (to say nothing of the media hysteria around the pandemic that has, in fact, profoundly affected their mental well-being).

My nephew was class of 2020 and the best pitcher on a well respected ball team. Division 1 scholarship was possible. Covid kept his senior year from happening. He still got a jr college baseball scholarship and caught covid first semester. Quarantined, fell behind and dropped out. Last time I saw him he was working in a McAllisters and had those damned gage holes in his ears. Future is fucked.

Back to remote learning now in many states.


Who would’ve thunk it? Lol