Re: High School Class for LH
Since the thread is already slightly hijacked onto the current PC concern for guns and violence in school, I can't resist sharing this quote I ran across last night, about an old man recollecting an incident during the school days of his youth and comparing it to the more deadly weapons children bring to school in the present day.
The author was born in 1802, wrote the passage when he was nearly 60, and published it a few years later in 1867.
Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net
Since the thread is already slightly hijacked onto the current PC concern for guns and violence in school, I can't resist sharing this quote I ran across last night, about an old man recollecting an incident during the school days of his youth and comparing it to the more deadly weapons children bring to school in the present day.
When a child, I recollect one instance of a young man who was going to school to an aged teacher. For some supposed insult, the profligate youth prepared himself with his pocket full of rocks (in this day it would have been with a pistol or bowie-knife), and going to the school-house attacked and beat the old man, and left him half dead, weltering in his blood. (From Autobiography of Dr. J. J. Polk)
Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net
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