What Were the "Good Old Days" Actually Like?
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The earliest president I can really remember is Obama so I can't recall a time when it didn't feel like America was in decline. Everyone says it was better before but it's pretty hard to imagine a world without wokeness.
I am 50+; a true Gen-X.
When I was in high school with 1200 other kids, I didn't know a single gay person. The teachers didn't push any woke agenda, and the classes were semi-useful. (I think I had the last year they offered home-ec and typing, and on actual typewriters.) My friends and I had no cell phones, and checked in occasionally with our parents from pay phones. In the summer I'd roller skate solo to the beach, or get dropped off at the barn all day long and get lost on trail rides. Life was pretty darn blissful.
When my sons were growing up, it was a different world but still mostly normal. I did homeschool my oldest after 6th grade so he could have more free time (he was earning his private pilot's license at 14) and we did the same for our youngest. Now? There's NO WAY I'd enroll a kid in public school. Not a chance.
Yeah we had typing too, that class turned out to be one of the best classes i ever took. Home ec was great too, i think both classes went on until the 90's here and were eventually dropped.. maybe not typing.. not sure.
Typing turned into computer class.
I took typing to help me with computer classes.
Bonus was that I was the only boy in the class ;)
Sweet!