More than we can ever hope to encapsulate in an online discussion forum. Society has been changing at faster and faster rates each decade; the overall annual impact of change on society that our children and grandchildren endure today is probably analogous to the amount of change in society we endured over ten years when we were children.What has changed that shootings at schools and other venues have become the way to settle grievances?
When I was young, guns were less regulated and much more common. People brought their hunting rifles to school.
If guys had a disagreement, they went out to the school yard and duked it out.
What has changed that shootings at schools and other venues have become the way to settle grievances?
A lot of kids went hunting before school, so their guns were in the rack in the truck. No big deal.Why was a hunting rifle needed at SCHOOl??
It may be stupid, but for whatever reason it seemed to work. Disagreements were settled, and often with no hard feelings. I had a coach that if a couple of kids were really p.o.ed at each other would put a set of boxing gloves on them and they'd work it out. I was involved a couple of times, and it led to less hard feelings than repressing the argument did.And duking it out is a stupid way to settle a disagreement.
Personal choice. I'm in favor of it. And personal responsibility. I'm in favor of that too.I grew up in suburban CA. No guns. No one hunted. My dad grew up on a farm. He inherited his dad’s hunting rifle. He stored it 20 feet up on a wall in the garage until he figured out how to get rid of it. It was definitely not about politics.
What has changed that shootings at schools and other venues have become the way to settle grievances?
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DS is trying to get a job as a teacher. I fear for his safety.
They can bring on a bipolar condition in a child who didn't exhibit any symptoms of such a disorder before taking stimulants. They are associated with "new or worse aggressive behavior or hostility." They can cause "new psychotic symptoms (such as hearing voices and believing things that are not true) or new manic symptoms."
6.4 MILLION CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOUR AND SEVENTEEN HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD. BY HIGH SCHOOL, NEARLY 20% OF ALL BOYS WILL HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD—A 37% INCREASE SINCE 2003.
"We are pathologizing boyhood," says Ned Hallo-well, a psychiatrist who has been diagnosed with ADHD himself and has cowritten two books about it, Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction. "God bless the women's movement—we needed it—but what's happened is, particularly in schools where most of the teachers are women, there's been a general girlification of elementary school, where any kind of disruptive behavior is sinful. What I call the 'moral diagnosis' gets made: You're bad. Now go get a doctor and get on medication so you'll be good. And that's a real perversion of what ought to happen. Most boys are naturally more restless than most girls, and I would say that's good. But schools want these little goody-goodies who sit still and do what they're told—these robots—and that's just not who boys are."
48% OF SUBJECTS OF ONE STUDY WHO TOOK ADHD MEDICATIONS EXPERIENCED SIDE EFFECTS LIKE SLEEP PROBLEMS AND "MOOD DISTURBANCES." IN ANOTHER, 6% OF CHILDREN SUFFERED PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS, INCLUDING THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE.
Ever been around people who do those types of meds?Sounds like we need to examine old emails from pharmaceutical companies. Bet a bag of donuts they knew all about this before the marketing began
Sounds like we need to examine old emails from pharmaceutical companies. Bet a bag of donuts they knew all about this before the marketing began
Why was a hunting rifle needed at SCHOOl?? And duking it out is a stupid way to settle a disagreement.
And as harley wrote duking it out in the school yard was a normal way to settle a dispute, and more often than not with no hard feelings later.
+1While that didn't happen where I grew up in suburbia, I had relatives in a small town in PA where it was normal to bring a rifle or shotgun to school. The kids (high school age) went hunting before or after school. It was just part of the culture there and no one saw any harm in it. Of course, no one shot up a school then either.
And as harley wrote duking it out in the school yard was a normal way to settle a dispute, and more often than not with no hard feelings later.
It may be stupid, but for whatever reason it seemed to work.
I bet it "worked" better for the physically stronger children.
DS is trying to get a job as a teacher. I fear for his safety.
I bet it "worked" better for the physically stronger children.
Actually, in many cases, a good fight might even bring guys to a better relationship with each other.
Actually, in many cases, a good fight might even bring guys to a better relationship with each other.
+1I became best friends throughout high school with a guy to whom I lost a fist fight.
It's how boys resolve things. The rules against fighting were not enforced as strongly as now. We had the safety valve of getting the steam off before it blew.