SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007

Scenario :
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to
jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for
traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.


Scenario:
Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.


Scenario:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy' s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.


Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2007- BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

(Not sure this really qualifies as a joke - kind of sad, really!)
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Sad but so true.
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I tell the young kids that we had smoking lounges in High School, for the students, in the '80's and they think I'm lying. It's hard to imagine, now.
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Sad... :-)
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Not so far from the truth saldly enough...
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Al was around back before Schools were invented.......
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yeah same here, my wife just thought it was amazing that we had a smoking ramp in my high school, and yes, i always had my guns in the gunrack of my truck too!:-)
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As an educator in the publick skool sistum, I can tell u that this wood b funny if it wernt troo.
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Don't know if I should laugh or cry.
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Yeah when I went to high school our JROTC hangout room used to be the smoking room for the students and teachers.
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Funny, scary, sad.

thanks for sharing.
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:-):-):-):-)
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This could just as easily been 1997 vs 2007.
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Rack up another win for Canada!!!

I first read this and thought someone was being a bit of a drama-queen, dreaming up the rediculous extreme end of the spectrum and only concentrating on that. "Denying the middle-ground" so-to-speak.

Then I realized, maybe this is the way schools are now in the USA. If this is indeed true, then like I said....another social victory for Canada.

I find schools here have been able to correct the problems of the past without venturing down the path of over-policing that is described above.

Sorry for re-hashing an old topic, it apparently came up during a search and I thought it was a contemporary post-set, apparently this is months old. No need sparking up new discussion if you just want to ignore this post.


Cheers

Cyanide
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