thompsonx -> RE: Allow Guns at GOP Convention? (3/30/2016 3:46:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or Define public school. In the old days the members of a community would send a letter to some state with a college and hire up a schoolteacher. They built a schoolhouse and paid the teacher to teach. Sometimes it was one room, now try teaching 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grad 4th grade... all at the same time. Actually I think the younger kids got more out of it. But the federal government had absolutely nothing to do with it, and kids got accepted to colleges "out east" and became doctors and inventors and whatever. The ones who didn't make it somehow tended the farm I guess. but some were not dumb as a box of rocks, started businesses n shit. Factories springing up everywhere, learn to read a micrometer and work a lathe or something. They weren't electric, they ran off a big shaft near the roof that drove belts that turned the lathe head, and that was off of a steam engine. Skills mattered. A different time. A different time indeed...one you never experienced.
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