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what can you see about todays society compared to the past?

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    After The Depression people were left insecure with items. During The Depression money was short: necessities were far from near. SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! That was the idea for many had nothing, and had to make due with leftovers. “Innovating tobacco boxes as lunch boxes.” Kids learned to expand a pencil per year. Clothing from older siblings was passed down.
    The 50’s came. The pastels were all over the place. Pink cars, chalky blue houses, and Sandy purple dresses: that was the style. People were beginning to forget the depression. Schools started to get better. Education was expanding. More teachers per school. Extra curricular activities were getting better. Gym had items to play with. Science labs had enough tables to work in smaller groups.
    Times at school were doing adequate. Phycodelic 70’s children were odd from parent’s old addictions. Artists are on the rise. Music, theater, writing, athletes all wanted the attention in school. Having the 60’s residents spend there time writing about the GOV conspiracies, 70’s children had much of an inspiration, but violence was not they answer. Passive personalities were developed since birth; school was the last thing in their minds. Addiction was in their blood: drugs were better introduced. School was pushed farther aside.
    As those 70’s children grew up. 80’,s more diversity came into schools. No revolutions were made. No wars to fight. Not much to worry about. Standardize testing were place into action. School pride, athletic competitions, respect for teachers was more in affect. Honor roll was all at all time high in attempt to reach. POP music flowed thru the hallways. Movies were made about Parties. Skipping classes to go to the beach.
    Generation X, 80’s offspring, was envious about how free and nice school was. They wanted to be just like the television showed. They skipped school, disrespected authorities because that was what generation x thought was acceptable. Computers were being introduced. Technology advanced in classes. School’s needed more money to update everything possible. Money was being pulled from those extra curricular activities to help, place the school in the right time. Scarce supplies for athletics, arts, bands, were a problem. Generation X, with a grungy attitude did not care. They wanted a generation for their own. The drugs were coming back, but only ended up in massive suicide rates. “ The generation was all about COBAIN” said a generation X teen. Wanted to be different “clicks” were more ‘in”. School was nothing but a jail. Talent raged, they left school to peruse those dreams. Those who stayed faced the problems of less and less school funding. Money was a problem, but they wanted an education so there they remained.
    In the turn of the century, Y2K phobia arose. Generation X was advising the Y2K time to peruse an education. But with technology advancing school was even less of a good place. With all the expensive equipment no one is aloud there. Security was risked everywhere, no respect for authority, due to crooked cops. The rise of surround property taxes made everything more costly. Schools want to give creation back to children. But schools are afraid of what might happen, so liberty has been taken away. Still we have those people encouraging arts, and anything to give them their creativity back. Being the Y2K time, money is all provided by parents. Pride in anything is not known. 2007 nothing has changed. Children are protected by laws, but being just children they may get away with out any manners toward adults, disrespecting whom they want when they want.
    The school supplies are still being abuse. Taking care of nothing. Recycling not a bit of scraps. We would be caught dead wearing a 2-year-old shirt. Still wanting a generation or our own we make a new thing. The Retro Age, just here suffering with in all the pressures of being a new age kid. Every adult in school wants to be trusted and respected but the retro age refuses to give anything first. Yelling at teachers, writing on, desks, tearing up books. We get our reduce lunch and not even touch it. Ashamed of what little money we don’t have, not taking into consideration how that money was earned. With all this technology the retro age is too smart for their own good. “ Why should you care if we waste, it its not like the school pays for it. ‘We’ pay our taxes, which go to the schools”.

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