Always focused on gambling and drinking, instead of glorious knightly combat!
(A 1620s cartoon a friend sent me)
Kids these days…
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Always focused on gambling and drinking, instead of glorious knightly combat!
(A 1620s cartoon a friend sent me)
As a former highschool (now middle school) teacher, this hits home, lol.
Trouble with kids gambling and smoking the newfangled tobacco in class?
I just remembered kids love vapes. I guess there really is a problem with the youth smoking a newfangled tobacco!
Thankfully not using it in class, but the highschoolers I used to teach love to talk about. We had a lot of trouble with kids vaping in the bathrooms back when I taught high school.
The drugs of choice back in the day I was in HS (mid '60's) were nicotine and alcohol. Hmmmm .... not much has changed? Except maybe kids don't get in trouble any more for mere dress code and grooming violations, like we did. The kinds of trouble we got into back then were more conducted outside school and school hours.
I graduated highschool in 2013 (a kid by the standards of this forum), so it was the period between cigarettes becoming uncool and vapes becoming popular. “Everyone” drank alcohol and smoked pot, instead. Funny how stuff changes. As an outsider looking in, vaping looks so dorky.
I might change that subject to "Parents These Days". My daughter is a high school math teacher and the other day she caught a 12-year-old vaping. She took it away. The next day the kids mother came into school and demanded the return of the kids vape as it was his Christmas present. She was nasty, rude and a real jerk. I cannot get my head around any parent giving their kid a vape no matter what age. Very sad.
I applaud your daughter and hope your daughter dragged the kid and mother to the principles office!
TobJohn: Do you shave yet?
I’ve actually had a full beard since I was 16, but the trade off is that it took it from my hairline!
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Wow, there may be a legal obligation for the teacher/school to report this incident, for it may well constitute a form of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
TobJohn...you must be an extremely handsome son-of-a-gun! Lucky fiancee!!!
She thinks I’m funny, which is what really matters… and that I keep my muzzleloaders and associated books to one room!
Some things never change.
Ahh, youth. Sneaking out to smoke cigarettes stolen from mothers' purses that smelled like Doublemint gum, drinking warm Heidelburg from the little brown keg bottles, desperately hoping to get a girl to sign an Olympia beer four-dot label and getting kicked in the stomach in the junior high bathroom by a ninth-grader wearing Beatle boots. You have to have been there. 
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You’ll have to explain the signing of the beer label to a Southerner. We didn’t have Oly when I was in high school.Ahh, youth. Sneaking out to smoke cigarettes stolen from mothers' purses that smelled like Doublemint gum, drinking warm Heidelburg from the little brown keg bottles, desperately hoping to get a girl to sign an Olympia beer four-dot label and getting kicked in the stomach in the junior high bathroom by a ninth-grader wearing Beatle boots. You have to have been there.
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4 dots was a "home run".... you were allowed to go to ALL the bases...
