The Children Are Our Future

Maybe Vista was Bill's revenge on those who bullied him as a kid.

I'm one of the 2000 and I'm happy I learned to weld. And then I had to learn a few other things because I'm not skilled enough to earn a living on welding.

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"I'm one of the 2000 and I'm happy I learned to weld."

career in IT here... after many mcjobs, i might add... if
i could hit reset... i'd apprentice myself to a master
stone mason and know i was truly leaving something
permanent and useful behind.

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Truer words....Teaching the value of honest work, and Shop for boys, should be part of any curriculum.

Exactly, as is what rob83 said true.

As well, Home Ec should also be a part of any curriculum. Maybe people would eat more healthy home prepared meals rather than spending almost half of the national food bill at restaurants.

I agree. every one should take a home economics/cooking course and basic shop class. they will be better able to take care of themselves when they move out of mommy's basement!

If Windows Vista calls for verbal abuse of Gates, Windows 10 is an open invitation for rope and an oak tree. YMMV, but still...

When I started high school nearly 50 years ago, the boys took shop while the girls took home economics.

In Grade 9, two of my male classmates did something different. They signed up for home ec, partly because they wanted to see if they could get away with it. That was, of course, during the early days of women's lib, so maybe they were making a statement.

As it turned out, it was a good idea on their part. I heard stories that it was a fun class and everyone had a blast with the two guys being there.

My home economics education consisted of learning how to sew and cook from my mother. (The sewing bit came easy because she was a fashion designer and I grew up with thread and dress patterns being in the house.) She was looking ahead to when I'd be out on my own and she figured I needed to take care of myself until there was a Mrs. B. That never happened but I can still sew on a button and do minor repairs, and I bake my own bread.

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"the entire leftist cabal is about to go all Bill Cosby
on your ass!"

Rock has been in that particular hot seat before...

"It isn't us, it's the media. The media has distorted our
image to make us look bad." ... Please. ... When I go to the
money machine at night, I'm not looking over my shoulder
for the media. I'm looking for n@gg@rs. --
from "Rock This!" by Chris Rock

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Pushing the bullies from the playground and onto the pages of Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, et al ... is farrrrrrrrr more corrosive and destructive than a little tete a tete ... mano y mano

The belief that bullies can be regulated-away by ‘zero-tolerance’ policies is just so ignorant.

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just spitballin' here, but i'm guessing bullies
played no small role in creating "unme."

explains why zhe spends all zheir time trying
to antagonise the commenters here at sda.

negative attention is better than no attention
at all. it's actually sad when you think about
it.

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When I was in engineering at university at about the same time as your story, a couple of class-mates also took a Home Ec course as an option one year, because with all the girls there, it should be a great place to be. My girlfriend, now my wife, was in the same class, and reported that these guys were basically avoided by everyone, even though they were both reasonably smart and good-looking. They knew her through me and would occasionally sit with her, but she tried to avoid that too.

So as they say, "Your results may differ".

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"For NEO - buy a mallet and chisel -
split a few bricks or rocks"

now i'm gettin' all excited.

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How's the joke go: My girlfriend slithered up to me and huskily rasped"I've been a naughty.naught girl and deserve to be punished".....so I installed Windows 10 on her laptop. :)

While zero tolerance programs in general are a bad idea, there's really no reason to tolerate any disruptive behavior at school whatsoever. If someone were disrupting my meal at a restaurant I'd want them gone. Same for places of learning.

I suspect that the social conditions of school have created a great deal of the authority-worship prevalent today. "I need someone powerful to protect me from bullies".