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betty rose

betty rose

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Goofyernmost said:
Turns out, I didn't have any choice. I wasn't born yet when the last one happened and last night was completely overcast here so if it happened I'll have to take everyones word for it. So onward to 2034 and @betty rose you and your hubby are welcome to join me. We can park our scooters side by side. :joyfull:
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You bet we will join you.....you may have to tell us what we are waiting for!;););)
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Gabe1 said:
It is a part of history that needs to be taught and remembered however there is also a segment of history that is dwelled on and repeatedly while in the same war it is rare to be touched how the Japanese Americans rounded up, were put into camps, lost their assets and little of that is ever spoken of. There at times is a lack of balance.
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This is why I say the school system I was in, for all its faults, did a good job of being balanced and not sugarcoating history. We did talk a lot about Japanese Internment. We had to read Farewell to Manzanar in eighth grade and then in World History and American history, we did talk about Japanese Internment. And then in college I had a class that was about the history of stigma. It too covered the Holocaust, but we spent more time on segregation than we did the Holocaust.

As I get older, I realize how much of the way my schools taught things was beneficial
 
betty rose

betty rose

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Goofyernmost said:
The problem with education is that I have found that they don't really cover much of even fairly current history. We, for example never got to WWII when I was in high school. I graduated in 66, the war had been over for two decades by then. My kids never saw anything from Korea or Vietnam and that was done almost 30 years before they graduated from high school. What I did get a lot of was ancient history, which at the time, I had no interest in at all. There was no possible way that I could care less about Egypt or Greece at the time.

I was born and raised to age 15 in a small city in New York State. Plattsburgh to be exact. One of the major battles of the war of 1812 was fought there on Lake Champlain. I never even heard about it until I was in High School in Vermont. Why wouldn't local school systems teach some thing of local historical interest. I never could figure that out and now I'm to old to care.
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Small world, hubby's first job was in Plattsburgh, New York.....We both graduated in 66.....no historical info from our school system
 
betty rose

betty rose

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MinnieM123 said:
My pet peeve in school was that they didn't have at least one course devoted to practical skills. For example, when I was in high school, many kids had a savings account and a few actually got a checking account in senior year. But many kids didn't have a clue how to balance a checkbook, for example. It would have also been nice to include procedures for people buying a car--and how to register it, insure it, etc. Many kids didn't know how to read a road map and plot out a trip. Now those are all just a few, random topics I would have appreciated learning about in school.
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I said the same thing. School spent too much time teaching unusable information. I wanted a practical living course too. We just learned by the seat of our pants, like most people. Not very efficient IMHO.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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betty rose said:
Maybe I should consult a geriatric doctor. I'm not sure our new Dr. has studied geriatric disorders.
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I have mixed feelings about geriatric doc's. I haven't been a big fan of the ones my folks had seen. Yes it is great that they have some more insight into issues of the elderly and some are more current on new treatments but so are many Family Medicine Doc's. It might be limited to the ones they had seen but I found those to be bullies, less inclined to give full explanations to their questions and they kinda brushed off my folks concerns. Maybe the luck of the draw. Took me a long time to find a General Family Doc that I liked and trusted.
 
betty rose

betty rose

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donaldtoo said:
Actually, along with Bob Newhart, Peter Bonerz, 78 (Dr. Jerry Robinson) and Bill Daily, 89 (airline navigator Howard Borden) are still with us. :)
Unfortunately, Marcia Wallace and Susanne Pleshette have passed. And, Jack Riley who played Mr. Carlin (we all remember him :)), passed just this last August.
I was young (10-ish to 16-ish during it's run) at the time, but, I still remember sooo many laughs from that show...!!! :)
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I miss spoke, I thought they were all gone. Glad to hear some of the cast is still with us.
 

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