school,1957 vs 2007

nightcreacher

Veteran Expediter
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.
2 007 - 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
 

Jack_Berry

Moderator Emeritus
leftover firecrackers.....we used to put the powder in copper tubes and tape the tubes to slot cars and run "jet" drags with them.:eek:


isn't it nice that after those "awful" eisenhower years(or whoever it was in canada) we are more enlightened and caring and sensitive 50 years later.:D
 

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
Guess I was the nasty kid on the block...used to get them cannon crackers and put them down the throat of a Garter or sand snake and blow them up!!:rolleyes:

Maybe it was me that invented suicide bombers???:eek:
 

CharlesD

Expert Expediter
Guess I was the nasty kid on the block...used to get them cannon crackers and put them down the throat of a Garter or sand snake and blow them up!!:rolleyes:

For me, snakes were more fun alive. I would catch them and then use them to terrorize neighborhood girls, or my mother. She was deathly afraid of them and I took great delight in bringing one into the house.
 

pjjjjj

Veteran Expediter
Haha, good post!
I remember when kids were threatened that when they got 'the strap' at school for .. whatever.. from the principal, most of the parents would also give the kids 'the strap' when they got home! Now, they just lay criminal charges against the principal, pull poor Johnny out of the school and put him into a 'better' one.

And when the attendant at a self-serve 24hour gas station was a bit fearful of being held up in the middle of the night.. now the customers getting the gas have to worry about being robbed and killed by the teenage gas station attendant and his friends! (true story in Burlington Ontario several years ago!)

And when it would be the kids' own fault if they entered a 'do not enter' construction zone to ride their mini bikes and ended up injured.. now it's the property owner's fault.

And when an intoxicated person would have to live with the consequences of his behavior in jumping out his friend's window into the swimming pool and breaking his neck.. now it's the friend's fault for allowing him to drink.

The good ole days.. when men were men.. and sheep were.. scared! hahahaha! :D
 
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