Back in the day.

[luvrbus]

My buddy and I went to Lesher Jr High in Ft. Collins Colorado. We couldn't walk home in time to get our shotguns and make it back the other way in time to hunt geese before it got dark. Solution? We brought our shotguns to school! We both had cheap Mossberg pumps that we could take the big nut off so the barrel would come off. That was the only way they fit in our lockers.

A few of the women teachers gave us the evil eye but said nothing. A coach asked if they were unloaded and why we brought them to school. We said "unloaded and we are going to Johnson's field after school to try to shoot some geese". He said "That is a good field. I have hunted it myself.".

Johnson' field is now townhouses and the guns to school thing has changed a bit....

I remember stopping out side FT Collins on 287 and jumped out and shot a pheasant nailed that sucker and starting walking in the deep snow to get the bird ,bad mistake the snow was level and I walked into a ditch covered with snow that took me 10 minutes to climb out of, so much for that bird the coyotes had bird for dinner 

[tr206]

Speaking of schools I'll include governmental offices and buildings remember how bare bones they were just your basic needs nothing fancy boy has that changed I maybe wrong but was that a way to show respect for the tax payer's hard earned dallar or am I dreaming?

[windtrader]

I hope the pendulum has swung enough the other way. The days of getting punished for wearing taps on the gym floor to today where kids bring guns  and knives to school and shoot and stabe each other is about as far as it can go, at least to me. Let's pray those who allow that and even support "defund the police" types wake up and the politcal extremes start whithering.

[chessie4905]

Drugs, and gangs gotta make it next to impossible to go to school, at least in inner cities, to avoid having to belong to one of them, or carry a gun for protection. Just like Capone days, but worse. Where do you start to finally rein this in?

[luvrbus]

Speaking of schools I'll include governmental offices and buildings remember how bare bones they were just your basic needs nothing fancy boy has that changed I maybe wrong but was that a way to show respect for the tax payer's hard earned dallar or am I dreaming?

Schools now with 100 million dollars football stadiums, no shop classes anymore few even have a music class, and now not even teaching kids to write in cursive. When Carter created the Dept of Education I said there goes our education system, that dept ranks right there with GWB's Home Land Securtiy Act lol and that dept is working just great keeping the border in check too, We move on as the past is past and there is no going back and who knows what the furture will bring   

[luvrbus]

Drugs, and gangs gotta make it next to impossible to go to school, at least in inner cities, to avoid having to belong to one of them, or carry a gun for protection. Just like Capone days, but worse. Where do you start to finally rein this in?

Easy start in Washinton DC,it all about money, politics and power they spend a 100 million dollars to get elected to a job that pays $175,000.00 a year 

[chessie4905]

Don't  need shop in schools anymore. Need trade colleges just like academic ones to learn a true revelant trade. Shop class is the last thing kids care about in school anymore. When they graduate, then they may be serious in seeking a true trade credentials. With loan programs like colleges enjoy.
Unfortunately Academia has no interest, nor politicians, just lip service.

[luvrbus]

Don't  need shop in schools anymore. Need trade colleges just like academic ones to learn a true revelant trade. Shop class is the last thing kids care about in school anymore. When they graduate, then they may be serious in seeking a true trade credentials. With loan programs like colleges enjoy.
Unfortunately Academia has no interest, nor politicians, just lip service.

I learned a lot in my shop classes, skills I still use today ,plus they were 2 hours classes where a down to earth person was teaching you skills and shop was a good place to apply math skills before they screwed math up in a classroom.Now it would take 4 years to learn how to weld cast iron without it cracking I was taught that in shop class ,we were taught how to pour babbitt bearings that were used back then like on a 216 Chevy engine   

[chessie4905]

Yeah, I learned how to make a bowl, cast ashtrays, solder tin, make a bookcase. Still remember those soldering irons you heated in a furnace. We would stick a red hot iron in a piece of salamoniac and make clouds of smoke.
Learned most from starting as a laborer for a friend's dad contractor. Learned how to mix mud, lay block, finish concrete, plumbing, wiring, erect and connect steel, roofing, framing,  etc. Use those skills to this day. Also gained skills in a tv store, including electronics, and TV repair, also how much voltage went into side of picture tube and what that shock felt like when your arm brushed that wire.lol

[luvrbus]

You were probably one of those guys that would charge a condenser up and tell a friend to hand it to you lol I was 

[CrabbyMilton]

Speaking of schools I'll include governmental offices and buildings remember how bare bones they were just your basic needs nothing fancy boy has that changed I maybe wrong but was that a way to show respect for the tax payer's hard earned dallar or am I dreaming?

Yes. It seems like government schools spend more money on administration than actual education.

[bobofthenorth]

My buddy and I went to Lesher Jr High in Ft. Collins Colorado.

I went to grade school in Ft. Collins - it must have been the winter of '67/68. We lived in Aggie Village which Google thinks is close to Lesher Middle School but they bused us somewhere to the north end of town.  The baby boom was in full swing so they were using a couple of converted duplex houses in a residential area as overflow classrooms.

[luvrbus]

Yes. It seems like government schools spend more money on administration than actual education.

Yeo where I live, they pay an administer $350,000.00 a year to screw things up in this area,ist thing he did was close a local school and start busing kids 25 miles each way, now instead of the buses running a 30-mile round trip and back to the barn it is 100 miles because he left bus barn 25 miles from school now, labor cost has gone up along with the fuel and it cost more to maintain the buses now   

[CrabbyMilton]

Yes it will be interesting what condition those EV skoolies will be 5-10 years from now. Either they will be ok or perhaps a dismal failure.

[chessie4905]

Cliff, I didn't  but older brother was an instructor at Keesler or Lackland AFB. He always kept a charged capacitor on his desk. Nosy cadets got it every couple of months.