Anonymous wrote:If those kids were in all-day detention today they would spend all their time looking at their phones and wouldn't even talk to each other.

I don't think schools do all day detention today, right? Parents would be up in arms about how their kid would miss xyz activity, and how would that affect their college application? Or, some of the parents that are lawyers would threaten to sue the school to get their kid out of trouble so this incident wouldn't negatively affect their college prospects.

If the kid is from a lower SES, then he'd be suspended.

If those kids were in all-day detention today they would spend all their time looking at their phones and wouldn't even talk to each other.

Anonymous wrote:By the time kids go to college today they are so sheltered and immature . They are like 14 year olds developmentally.

it is true.

Oddly enough the realization of this was watching old pre-code hollywood movies with really young actresses being able to convincingly pull off heavy roles. Psychologically young girls/women would not be able to do the same

By the time kids go to college today they are so sheltered and immature . They are like 14 year olds developmentally.

Anonymous wrote:It was a flare gun, not a real gun.

But still today, that would set off panic for sure.

I also remember a song from the 80's called "the homecoming queen has got a gun"
If you don't remember it look up the video / lyrics it was a total spoof song but I can't imagine what would happen if a radio station played that song today

God..I love(d) that movie. It came out the same time I was in high school and I so related.

I loved it when the kids were discussing what would happen the following week when they would see each other in the halls. How they would all be in their "cliques" and not be able to speak to each other.

So totally how things were back in high school then.

And probably still are now.

Minus the big hair.

It was a flare gun, not a real gun.

It was a flare gun, if I remember correctly. And he brought it because his elephant lamp wouldn't work and he got an F.

And the jocks taping the other kid's butt!

Yeah. A friend of mine brought a gun (unloaded) to high school one day back in the 80s. Not for any threatening purposes, it was more of a misguided "show and tell." There was a whole kumbaya moment of let's talk about this, why would you do this, everything all right at home?, how come you had access to a gun?, etc. But I think he didn't even get suspended.

Anonymous wrote:Blockbuster is still open?

OP probably meant rent on-demand.

Yes, it was a more innocent time although then kids were more likely to blow their head off than shoot others. But in Breakfast Club it was a flare gun.

I love that movie!

Anonymous wrote:Blockbuster is still open?

No, Pay Per View

Blockbuster is still open?

So, DH and I are super party animals and rented the Breakfast Club to watch tonight. There was the scene where Brian confesses to bringing the gun to school and a teacher finding it in his locker. And he was only given detention! Can you imagine if a gun was found in a student's locker nowadays?!