10-09-2013, 08:22 AM
Good morning all, here we are at "hump day". I understand there's a school somewhere that has forbid their students to use that phrase. :o There is also a school that has suspended a student for making a gun gesture with his fingers, another suspended one for bringing a key chain with a gun medallion on it and yet another was suspended for playing "cops and robbers" on his own front yard while waiting for the school bus. Some schools have banned playing dodge ball, tag or other "harmful" games. Some have even stopped having recess. 
On last night's news, they were saying that there is increased funding for more officers to patrol the local schools, and there was a picture of an armed policeman standing in the hall while students were going to class. Gee, I remember when we had student or teacher "hall monitors" that would yell at you for running in the hallways or you could get detention for being late, but there were not armed officers to enforce this. What has our school systems come to???? Don't these people that are now making these rules, remember what they did when they grew up. We came back from recess with skinned knees, sometimes even a black eye, we played games with fake guns, shot rubber bands and spitballs at others in class, and even settled our differences with an after school fight, and I think we all survived to grow up as good people, well, most of us anyway.....
Maybe that's it, the kid that makes a bang-bang gesture with his fingers today is the bank robber of tomorrow.
On last night's news, they were saying that there is increased funding for more officers to patrol the local schools, and there was a picture of an armed policeman standing in the hall while students were going to class. Gee, I remember when we had student or teacher "hall monitors" that would yell at you for running in the hallways or you could get detention for being late, but there were not armed officers to enforce this. What has our school systems come to???? Don't these people that are now making these rules, remember what they did when they grew up. We came back from recess with skinned knees, sometimes even a black eye, we played games with fake guns, shot rubber bands and spitballs at others in class, and even settled our differences with an after school fight, and I think we all survived to grow up as good people, well, most of us anyway.....
Maybe that's it, the kid that makes a bang-bang gesture with his fingers today is the bank robber of tomorrow.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD