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Post by hillbilly on Nov 16, 2012 16:24:41 GMT -5
similar issue down here in SC on kid's absences. was going to get my son out on Friday a few weeks back for deer hunting. wife wouldn't let me 'cause of the tightness on missed days at school.
as an aside, my son is at dmv today trying to get his driver's license. he grew up, and i grew old, much too fast
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Post by bigjon on Nov 16, 2012 20:10:42 GMT -5
Hillbilly, until last year the students in my county were allowed one excused hunting day a year. The new administration took that away but I don't see it slowing the kids down. I'm all for education and being where you need to be when you need to be there BUT a lot of common sense and respect is learned in the woods and on the water. It seems some of the more educated folks I work with now days are lacking in these areas.
It seems our local school system has a generation gap of teachers, very few older teachers, very few middle age teachers and a pile of fresh out of college who are still kids themselves.
We dropped our son off at school this morning and there was a guy standing directing traffic, I am usually at work and my wife drops him off so I asked if they had high schoolers directing traffic in the morning, nope it was a teacher. The guy looked about 17 although I guess had to be older, pants sagging big time and his shiny new Timberlands on. He just did not give off the appearence of someone I would want as a role model for my son.
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Post by broke on Nov 17, 2012 6:30:43 GMT -5
Flash back to 1959. Huddleston High School. All the kids in my class were sons & daughters of Farmers. When we had to be off to help with haying and filling silos the teachers were glad to be rid of us for a few days. Same with hunting days which were limited because of farm work. All the teachers were old, all eight of the school buses were driven by High School kids. At recess we traded and sold knives & pistols. No buses were wrecked. No one was knifed or shot. Every kid upon getting out of School got a job right off and a car. Only one kid had a car while I was in School there. My favorite teacher was a WWII Vet with one arm.
Things are a little different now, arent they. The system today is not good for kids.
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Post by Brian on Nov 17, 2012 9:04:37 GMT -5
They banned camo in my high school because everyone went hunting before school and would show up with bloody clothes... We started showing up with blood on our jeans so they unbanned camo and banned fresh blood  Most of the cars (ok, they were all pickup trucks) in the parking lot had deer rifles in them and a common sight would be a student showing off his new scope, rifle, whatever to the principal |
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Post by CorneliaGale on Nov 17, 2012 21:26:59 GMT -5
Stewartsville was the same way, every kid carried a knife, guns hanging in the back windows. If you brought your deer tag in you got a excused day off, my how things have changed.
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