The News-Press has a write-up on the 30th anniversary of the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Jason Verdow.
He went missing from his schoolbus stop in N. Ft. Myers. The area was heavily wooded--in fact it was a large section of woods and fields that separated his neighborhood from my own.
I was in high school then, and that day they announced over the intercom for the boys to come to the front of the school to join the search party.
How do you think that move would fly these days? Sensitive darlings pulled from their legally-guaranteed schooling to potentially experience the trauma of finding a dead child? I swoon at the thought.
Now that I think about it, the request was sexist to boot.
Posted by floridacracker at March 4, 2006 01:20 PMIf you ladies were in the woods and happened upon a mouse, why you'd just be lost without a chair nearby to hop upon whilst you screamed.
So the order makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at March 4, 2006 02:58 PMarrgg..
to close..I remember that piece of crap.
Goode..
It was different, but better world then Donnah.
They actually TAUGHT school back then, you had to get the answer right on the exam. Now it's the 'process' thats important...if you get half the algebra question right...thats half a point! People
wonder why a chunk of foam took out a Space Shuttle.
It was sexy, all those girls watching the boys save the day..! Stand Back maam !!! lol..o wait you said sexist..Im sry
the only time these kids walk out now is when they
suspend the teacher for feeding them rhetoric.
It's almost against the law for the cops to hunt the bad guys...now, forget the citizen corp.
That story was similar to the Marie Arrington deal.
I don't remember it being sexy. I remember it being grim. They headed out, and the rest of us went to our next class.
Posted by: Donnah at March 4, 2006 03:10 PM