Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
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How times have changed.
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Changing Times - Our Schools then and now
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Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1973 - Vice principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.
2006 - School goes into lockdown, 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 fist fight after school.
1973 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end
up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2006 - 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.
1973 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives
him a whipping.
1973 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist 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 headache medicine to school.
1973 - Mark shares headache medicine with the principal out on the smoking dock.
2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.
1973 - Five high school boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.
2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. 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 can't speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1973 - Ants die.
2006 - 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.
1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.
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Wild ain't it? Up until I was in the 9th grade, guys showed off their guns to each other in the parking lot. Teachers asked to borrow pocket knives. Principal sent students to the store just down the road topick up a pack of smokes for him. Guys (and sometimes gals) got in fights, and even though both carried a knife neither of them pulled it out even when they were getting their butt kicked. If it was obviously a case of bullying, the bully got his butt whipped if he won the fight, or if he lost it was considered "good enough for him". If it couldn't be decided who started it, both got their butts whipped. Fights behind the school, field house, etc. where teachers didn't see it going on rarely got brought up. Fireworks were allowed for HS kids, as long as they cleaned up the mess and kept them on the football field. Ag class consisted of going to the Ag teachers farm (less than 1/4 mile from the school, through the woods) where we wormed cows and horses, hauled hay, tore down and rebuilt barns, etc.
Unfortunately our principal retired after my 9th grade year. The new principal started out by outlawing dang near everything, including dissolving the football program (that was in '85, and today that school still doesn't offer football). Basketball is ok--the running joke here is you go to that school to play school and learn basketball. There's a gate on the road now. The parking lot is moved waaaaaaayyyyyyyyy down near where the football field used to be. I reckon everything that is outlawed in big city schools is also outlawed there--so much for living in the country.
I know of a few kids that didn't turn out too well from there, but there's also been some professionals come from there. None of us turned out to be mass murderers or serial killers. I still tote a pocket knife, and still haven't used it on anyone. It's sad how much has changed in 25 years.
Chad
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."-- Theodore Roosevelt
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Ecclesiasties 10:2
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
How true....we used to stand across the street and smoke cigs and whatever,then a teacher or the principal would yell at us breaks over get back to class,no big deal.
Sin,Sex,Whisky and Wine,were from the class of 79........
They never let us put that in the yr book.we used to show up at school with our duck hunting vests on with shells still in them and hag them in our lockers..from the morrning hunt,then head out after school.....
A lot has changed in the measly 9 yrs I've been out. A LOT!!!!!
Biggest thing--girls certainly don't look like they did when I was there! [] I know I'm still considered a "young-un" on here, but times HAVE changed a lot in just the last few years.Don't know much about the last 30 or so.
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I'm dealing with some of those issues right now with my kid in school. What a stupid world we live in. Kids will fight from time to time. Now, they don't care who started it, they just punish the winner. Complete opposite from when I went to school.
I'm seriously thinking about homeschool. That way if they fight, I can just referee betweent my boys!
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How times have changed.
.we used to show up at school with our duck hunting vests on with shells still in them and hag them in our lockers..from the morrning hunt,then head out after school.....
] I know I'm still considered a "young-un" on here, but times HAVE changed a lot in just the last few years.Don't know much about the last 30 or so.
