SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007

jimpeel

jimpeel

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This is going around on the Internet. There are those of you who will see the humor and those -- you know who you are -- who will start the diatribes of alarmism and paranoia.

Unfortunately, this is too true!


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.
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That last one is wrong. Teachers can still hug their students, elementary at least...and those would be the ones to cry at a skinned knee.
 
tonksy said:
That last one is wrong. Teachers can still hug their students, elementary at least...and those would be the ones to cry at a skinned knee.
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There was a news program which did a segment on teachers and how they feel constrained with their kids. In one event, a kid had gotten hurt and the teacher started to comfort them but pulled away even though she thought a hug would comfort the kid. Teachers walk a tightrope every day between what is right and wrong -- not because is actually is tright or wrong but because of the new perception of right and wrong.
 
Overkill has hurt us all. Kill the lawyers.

That's been posted before, I believe.
 
There are hugs abound at my elementary school...I suppose my children and their teachers are just lucky?
People will say anything sensationalistic if they think they'll be on the news.
 
small variation intended to show the stupidity
Smacking a female classmate's behind has garnered a one-day suspension for a 6-year-old Hoagland Elementary student on grounds of sexual harassment, raising the ire of the boy's mother who is questioning the school's labeling of the incident.

According to the paperwork, the teacher, Erin Bargerhuff, saw the boy and “the young lady goofing around” in line when she went to pick them up from recess. Bargerhuff writes that she saw the boy “reach up and smack her (the girl) on the bottom.” According to the paperwork, Bargerhuff told the two about keeping their hands to themselves and that the boy admitted to smacking the girl's bottom.
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wow. there must have been lots of ducks, and bunnies, and flowers all smiling and hugging in 1957. cats and dogs got along. everyone was honest and hardworking. june had dinner ready right on time, every night.
 
She did... but then again, most families could afford to live on one income. His "job" was at the office, and her "job" was at the house.
 
All families can live on one income. We've been doing it for over a decade. Stay away from $5.00 coffee's & quarter of a million dollar starter homes & you're halfway there.
 
Last trimester I went to the student teacher conferences and one teacher told me of an incident where my daughter was being a little shit. The teacher told me what she had planned for disipline and then asked, "Is that ok with you?" I looked at her and said damn right it is, if you have to do somthing do it. She gave me a surprised look and said OK.
 
lol, my mom's boss does always say that "if we didn't need it in 1957, we don't need it now"...

but!
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.

i always had a problem with this logic. well, first of all, you're typically diagnosed with a disorder before you are pumped with drugs for it... at least, in my experience... and yes, as someone who had this disability, i can attest to its reality! i'm so tired of people trying to say it's made up and all us ADD kids should just sit down and shut up already, or could benefit from a beating, etcetcetcetcetc!


though most of the rest of this i find very sad and true :(
 
ADD & all it's cousin psycho-babble are excuses for kids/adults who are lazy/unfocused/unmotivated/ill-equipped/dumb.

The world needs ditch diggers too. We all can't be Warren Buffet. Thank goodness.
 
well, i'm thanking goodness that there are people out there with the sense not to give up on kids who have mental problems, and actually help them instead of telling them they're lazy/unfocused/unmotivated/ill-equipped/dumb... but hey, what could i possibly know? i'm just lazy/unfocused/unmotivated/ill-equipped/dumb, right?
 
Ash...the number of real cases compared to the number of wannabe cases is miuniscule. Mommas looking for an out, doctors trying to look like they're doing something. It's easier to pop a pill than treat a problem.

What a drag it is getting old
Kids are different today,
I hear every mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though shes not really ill
Theres a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mothers little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

Things are different today,
I hear every mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husbands just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mothers little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old

Men just arent the same today
I hear every mother say
They just dont appreciate that you get tired
Theyre so hard to satisfy, you can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mothers little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old

Lifes just much too hard today,
I hear every mother say
The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mothers little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day
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