SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007

Scenario
Chuck goes quail hunting before school,
pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.


1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Chuck's shotgun,
          goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Chuck.
2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Chuck hauled off to jail
         and never sees his truck or gun again. Counsellors called in
         for traumatized students and teachers



Scenario:
Jonny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.


1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins.
         Jonny 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 Jonny started it.


Scenario:
Fubar won't be still in class, disrupts other students.


1957 - Fubar sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Fubar given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie.
         Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state
         because Fubar has a disability.

Scenario:
DJ breaks a window in his neighbor's car
and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.


1957 - DJ is more careful next time, grows up normal,
         goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - DJ's dad is arrested for child abuse.  
         DJ removed to foster care and joins a gang.  
         State psychologist tells DJ's sister that she remembers
         being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.  
         DJ's mom has affair with psychologist.


Scenario:
Charlie gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.


1957 - Charlie shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Charlie 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 and goes to college.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state.
         Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that knowing
         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:
Slammy 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.
         Slammy charged with  domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents,
         siblings removed from home, computers confiscated,
         Slammy's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.


Scenario:
Brew falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.
He is found crying by his teacher, Cathi.  Cathi hugs him to comfort him.


1957 - In a short time, Brew feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Cathi is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.
         She faces 3 years in State Prison.  
         Brew undergoes 5 years of therapy.

This would be hillarious if it weren't so damn true.....

When did COMMON SENSE take a vacation?

Maybe being senile ain't such a bad thing. I can remember how things were back in 57 and tune OUT the 2007's...... :)

Hugs BD

Quote:

Brew..............He is found crying.............

Not again!  ;D

Hey! How come I didn't get to do something dangerous / offensive to the government!?!?!

Scenario
Echo brings a pack of gum to school.


1957 - Echo shares the gum with his friends. Teacher makes Echo and his friends spit the gum out and she eats the last piece herself.
2007 - Superhawk cries that Echo did not bring enough for everyone. Echo gets detention so he and his posse beat the crap out of Sueprhawk at recess. DJ shuts down school for a few days with a nasty note on the front door.

:D

Or somethin like that!

Some things are better now, though. For example:

Scenerio:

Jenn doesn't wear underwear to college class, flashes mommy part to teacher, students.

1957 - Jenn is removed from circulation, sent to a nunnery for a while, and becomes a cranky old librarian.

2007 - Jenn is most popular girl at Tri Delta, makes cover of 'Carpet Matches Drapes' magazine, goes on to become governor of Alaska.

;)

Hilarious and sadly true.

My theory is that in 1957, I had access to three commercial television stations. In 2007, hundreds, and not very good ones at that. It's too much information and all this iffy data scares the beejesus out of us and we over-react with arbitray rules and law.

Just one theory.

Charlie

OMG...Echo, that is all so very true and really sad too.


   Except for this one:


Quote:

DJ breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt. 1957 - DJ is more careful next time, grows up normal,         goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

    1957-  Dj Is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to the AirForce and starts a web-site that helps thousands...and growing. ... ;)

it's a sad reality. i remember in high school we could get a smoking pass from our parents and dear season was an excusable absence. hell i remember in shop class we used to make ashtrays, pipes all kinds of stuff. i even busted some preppy kids nose one time. i did get suspended and an ass kicking from dad when he got off the road but that was about it. i think thats part of whats wrong. nobody gets their ass beat anymore.  

Scenario: The US economy sucks big time.

1941: The President thrusts the US into "the only right war ever waged" to help her engaged allies. The US ends up being looked up to world-wide and the wartime production spurs the econmony to record levels.

Currently: The President act unilaterly, using far-fetched excuses to attack a country not capable of harming the US or her allies. The President belittles and bullies the US's longtime allies, grants himself more personal power to the office of POTUS,  and more people die in this "war" than in the unrealted event (9-11) that served as the ecxuse for it in the first place.

Instead of spurring on he sputtering economy he created by turning the record surplus he inherited from the previous administration into a record deficiet. All while an oil company posted the largest profit of ANY company in ALL of US history. While the rest of America worries about keeping thier jobs he has been very efficant in funneling the tax-payers dollars to his special interest groups.

Have to agree with that one.

What else he did of course, to get the country in the mood and behind the war effort by urging Americans to go out and do some shopping and take the kids to Disneyland. No victory gardens or "Loose Lips Sink Ships." You have to have to respect your citizens and allies when you go to war.

Charlie

think of all the cheap shit that arrives in our ports everyday from china. what do you think the mind set would be back in 1941 about depending on a communist country for all we consume.

Back then, we sent crap to them and losing ships to U-Boats along the way.

Char

hehe good stuff, we had to read this in  one of my education classes...would have been better with these names tho.

Not sure if you wrote that or where you got it Echo, but, that post should be mandatory reading for eery school kid and parent in the country!!!!!!!  GREAT post !     Tuck