DTA
Desperado
- May 3, 2025
- 103
So tonight I was watching a video on YouTube about school life in the 80's. It was all about things kids did back then that are prohibited now.
I was in grade school in a small town in the 90's, which was sort of the transition period from freedom to tyranny in school. I watched it change.
As I've said before, I did a good bit of time in US federal prison at a low-security prison. Something that really struck me one day when I was in the prison library was how much it was like school. I had a beanie on because it was cold and forgot to take it off. A guard came in to yell at me for wearing a hat indoors. That triggered memories of middle school in the 90's and I suddenly realized that public schools have simply become low-security prisons.
How you dress and when. Controlled movement every hour. Crazy contraband rules. Locker, backpack, and book searches. Barbed wire fences and security checkpoints. Cops everywhere. Staff corruption. I could go on and on.
The biggest differences I can see is that one is at least allowed to go home after school and the schoolyard fights are generally less violent. Other than that I don't see any difference.
I know that since the 90's school has only gotten more tyrannical. It has really made me feel bad for what kids today have to go through.
There's no real point to this other than an old man's rambling, but I want to at least let you poor youngsters here know that I sympathize with you for how you must grow up now.
What was school life like for you?
I was in grade school in a small town in the 90's, which was sort of the transition period from freedom to tyranny in school. I watched it change.
As I've said before, I did a good bit of time in US federal prison at a low-security prison. Something that really struck me one day when I was in the prison library was how much it was like school. I had a beanie on because it was cold and forgot to take it off. A guard came in to yell at me for wearing a hat indoors. That triggered memories of middle school in the 90's and I suddenly realized that public schools have simply become low-security prisons.
How you dress and when. Controlled movement every hour. Crazy contraband rules. Locker, backpack, and book searches. Barbed wire fences and security checkpoints. Cops everywhere. Staff corruption. I could go on and on.
The biggest differences I can see is that one is at least allowed to go home after school and the schoolyard fights are generally less violent. Other than that I don't see any difference.
I know that since the 90's school has only gotten more tyrannical. It has really made me feel bad for what kids today have to go through.
There's no real point to this other than an old man's rambling, but I want to at least let you poor youngsters here know that I sympathize with you for how you must grow up now.
What was school life like for you?
