Did schools in the 1930s expel students?
In the 1930s more kids dropped out of school than do today because there really wasn’t much social stigma to it. You could drop out of school and end up staying on the farm or getting a manufacturing job which more than likely paid the bills if you were lucky, especially if it was a union job. Today there’s not a lot of opportunity for someone who drops out, and there are legal sanctions for doing so in many jurisdictions, so kids stay in school, even if they don’t want to, and they are not respectful of the institutions. Lots of times this is because the value of education has not been instilled in them. Perhaps they were from single parent families. Perhaps their mother was 15 when she had them, a child herself. Education does begin in the home. So anyway, if they cross the line too many times, they are expelled. In the 1930s they weren’t there to cross the line in the first place. It is odd to see some waxing nostalgic for the 1930s, what with its breadlines, unemployment, foreclosu
