On 7/29/2018 2:21 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 7/29/2018 10:28 AM, wrote:
>>
>>> Regardless which type of school success depends mostly on parental
>>> behavior.Â* Public schools work very well when a student's parents take
>>> an interest in their education.Â* Nowadays way too many parents are too
>>> involved with their own activities so pay little to no attention to
>>> their children's education... instead they leave it all to the school
>>> and are quick to blame the school for failures when in fact it's the
>>> fault of irresponsible parenting.Â* Today with both parents working or
>>> single parent homes there is no one to monitor children... instead it
>>> comes down to the spoiled little brats monitoring/directing the
>>> parents, a fine example of the tail wagging the dog.
>>>
>>
>> Very true.Â* The Viet Nam was was harmful to the schools too.Â* Why, you
>> ask?Â* If you were in college to become a teacher you were exempt from
>> the draft.Â* Many young guys became teachers not from a desire to help
>> kids learn but to get out of the draft.Â* Later they progressed and some
>> became the school administrators that gutted any form of discipline the
>> good teachers had.
>>
>> Fortunately, I think it has turned a bit.Â* Teachers are getting a better
>> wage in many states so they can afford to be in a career they really
>> want.
>
> Maybe my memory is bad, but I thought the draft deferment could be
> obtained for any valid college student, not just education majors.
>
>
Going from memory, anyone could get a college deferment, but certain
occupations were deferred or exempted too. If you had the right job.
and I believe teacher was one of them, you were exempted. My brother
was a civilian engineer employed by the Navy and he was exempted. My
father was never called in WWII because of his job critical to materials
needed for the war. He even got a higher gas ration too as he was
always on call.