I don’t know what the original main purpose was for constructing these building projects, so famously known as Pruitt-Igoe, but for me it was a wonderful time in my childhood – a time where friendships were made, where memories of good times are cherished and embraced. This was a time when the most basic and fundamental beliefs of my life were so intricately knitted – learning to know who I was as a person, my first love, my first kiss, my first “real” definition of what friends and family are and should be – learning to love people for who they are and not for what they have or for their racial/ethnic background. All these things I learned and embraced for 14 years of my childhood – Pruitt-Igoe.
School was not the same as it is now: Classes began with morning prayer, the reading of the Bible, quoting the Lord's prayer. Now we're trying to push prayer out of school altogether - or have we? If we really understand what prayer is all about, we can teach our children that no one can keep us from praying from our hearts to God - no one! Discipline was also the name of the game – if you showed out too many times in the classroom, you would probably get a few “whacks” in your hand from the teacher with a ruler; if they didn’t get you straight, you would be sent to the Principal’s Office. He would have you bend over and you would get whacked a couple of times with a “rattan” – a tree branch wrapped with tape – WHOOOO, that hurt!!!! I remember at the end of one school year, some “bad” boys were said to have tied our Principal to a tree at the front of the building!!! Now that was funny!!!! These days, people are put in jail or sued for this type of behavior. However, it did not do us any harm.
School was not the same as it is now: Classes began with morning prayer, the reading of the Bible, quoting the Lord's prayer. Now we're trying to push prayer out of school altogether - or have we? If we really understand what prayer is all about, we can teach our children that no one can keep us from praying from our hearts to God - no one! Discipline was also the name of the game – if you showed out too many times in the classroom, you would probably get a few “whacks” in your hand from the teacher with a ruler; if they didn’t get you straight, you would be sent to the Principal’s Office. He would have you bend over and you would get whacked a couple of times with a “rattan” – a tree branch wrapped with tape – WHOOOO, that hurt!!!! I remember at the end of one school year, some “bad” boys were said to have tied our Principal to a tree at the front of the building!!! Now that was funny!!!! These days, people are put in jail or sued for this type of behavior. However, it did not do us any harm.
Those were the days!
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