HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007
02-13-2009, 05:31 AM
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HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007
HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's 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 ne ver sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:
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 is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist..
Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and 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 the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed..
1957 - Ants die.
2007- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called.. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
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 .
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's 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 ne ver sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:
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 is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist..
Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and 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 the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed..
1957 - Ants die.
2007- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called.. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
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 .
02-13-2009, 08:01 AM
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about 6 or 7 years ago we gave the kids small swiss army knives.
the little kind with a finger nail file a tiny pair of scissors and a little 1 inch blade.
The whole thing was probably 2 1/2 inches long.
strict instruction went along with them that they never bring them to school.
yeah right, dad.
after about a month we get the note from the 4th grade teacher, that we can retrieve the knife during parent teacher conference.
seems #2 son was sitting in class using the tip of the blade as a reading pointer.
at least the teacher maintained a sense of reason.
I chuckle to think that I always had a 5" buck knife in my pocket and usually 2 or 3 case cutters since I worked in a grocery store.
I even can recall using the buck knife in front of faculty working backstage to cut wiring.
the little kind with a finger nail file a tiny pair of scissors and a little 1 inch blade.
The whole thing was probably 2 1/2 inches long.
strict instruction went along with them that they never bring them to school.
yeah right, dad.
after about a month we get the note from the 4th grade teacher, that we can retrieve the knife during parent teacher conference.
seems #2 son was sitting in class using the tip of the blade as a reading pointer.
at least the teacher maintained a sense of reason.
I chuckle to think that I always had a 5" buck knife in my pocket and usually 2 or 3 case cutters since I worked in a grocery store.
I even can recall using the buck knife in front of faculty working backstage to cut wiring.
02-13-2009, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Headchef,Feb 13 2009, 05:17 PM
So very true and so very sad. How did we ever end up here? 
We have gone backwards in the last 50 years.
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02-13-2009, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Headchef,Feb 13 2009, 01:17 PM
How did we ever end up here?
Both serve useful purposes. 24 hour news makes it possible to be much better informed about matters that actually matter, along with plenty that don't of course. The latter does prevent a good bit of fraud, abuse, and corporate sculduggery.
I guess you take the bad with the good. What's sad is that younger people don't have a clue about what the alternative (life in the 50s and 60s) was like so they can't make an informed choice about these policies and practices when given the opportunity to do so.
02-15-2009, 09:51 PM
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Scenario 9:
George is black and John is white.
1957: George is forced by law to go to a segregated black school with inferior teachers, facilites, and resources while John is forced to go to an all white school with all the resources he needs for a proper education. One day while George is coming home from school he attempts to pick up on a white girl. Days later he is dragged from his home and lynched. no one is convicted of murder.
2007: George and John are able to go to school together and receive the same level of education.
...it goes both ways...
George is black and John is white.
1957: George is forced by law to go to a segregated black school with inferior teachers, facilites, and resources while John is forced to go to an all white school with all the resources he needs for a proper education. One day while George is coming home from school he attempts to pick up on a white girl. Days later he is dragged from his home and lynched. no one is convicted of murder.
2007: George and John are able to go to school together and receive the same level of education.
...it goes both ways...
02-16-2009, 03:51 AM
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What you are speaking of is progress in recognizing equality, regardless of race, long overdue.
Some of the other comparisons show we have just gone too far in an attempt to be politically correct, almost to the point of paranoid.....
What you are speaking of is progress in recognizing equality, regardless of race, long overdue.
Some of the other comparisons show we have just gone too far in an attempt to be politically correct, almost to the point of paranoid.....