Hi.

I have to agree with that.  Most of the teens that I hung out with were 
very sensible and responsible.  But, I also do think that it was a 
different world then.  I graduated from high school in 1978, and it is 
staggering to consider the differences between then and now.

1.  Only a few people had home computers and they were more like glorified 
calculators than anything with any real computing power.

2.  Most people still received television through an antenna.  It was 
either rabbit ears or a roof top antenna--cable was only in the deep fringe 
areas.

3.  No one had satellite TV.

4.  Video Game machines hadn't been developed yet, so we played board 
games, or even played cards.

5.  Music was sold on casettes or vinyl records.  A few die-hards were 
still buying 8 track tapes.

6.  Cellular telephone hadn't been developed yet.

7.  There were no CD players.

8.  Chewing gum in school was still a major infraction.

9.  None of my peers would have ever considered bringing a gun to school.


10.  I don't remember ever hearing of any of the teachers in my school 
being physically assaulted.

11.  Most of us could read and most of us could handle 4 function math 
without the benefit of a calculator.  It was a good thing, too, because my 
school didn't allow them until you were a senior.

12.  We learned to type instead of keyboard.  I learned on an old Royal manual.



Please don't misunderstand.  I'm not a real conservative guy.  But I think 
it was better then.  Much much better, and I think that at least in 
American society, we need to get back to basics and I don't see anyone else 
saying that.  I still know some very responsible teens, but most of them 
have pretty old school parents.

73, de Lou K2LKK


At 09:30 PM 7/17/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>no, not so rare.
>Its the few that over shadow the many in this case.
>For every 100 teens between the ages of 13 and 20, even if there are 5 that
>are unresponsible and behave badly, it will color the other 95 similarly in
>most peoples eyes.
>It hasn't been that long since i was a teenager and, as a responsible type
>then, I could understand the differences between the small bad group, and
>the large, ignored, responsible good group of which I was usually part of.
>Teens are one of those groups that are stereo typed past the point of reason
>and logic by most adults over 30.
>73
>Colin, V A6BKX