1967 vs 2007

[DennisM7]

Funny, yet disturbingly true...

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SCHOOL 1967 vs. 2007

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock down, and FBI is called. Jack is 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.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail; nobody is arrested; nobody is expelled.
2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the principal. He returns to class, sits still, and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with ADD and given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a learning disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and be comes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is placed in 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.
1967 - Mark shares aspirin with principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1967 - 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 is given a 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.
1967 - Ants die.
2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security, and FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates parents; siblings are 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, Heather. Heather hugs him to comfort him.
1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Heather is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in state prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy.

[paceman]

Sad, but all too true.

[Todd98]

We now live in a more violent and judgemental world and it was not like anything when I was growing up and the same for those who were born before me. Believe it or not my daughter AKA Pidgeot_Girl who is in 7th grade along with her class mates has to be drug tested. Kids are under more stress and per pressure in these days unlike myself I did not have to go through what she has to. Everybody is always looking to sue somebody for that quick cash. People are a hell of alot more impatient than ever before and people do not value human life. I wish I could turn back the clock and be living and raising a family back then. But we can not so we just have to put up with all the crap in todays world.

[BlackArrow]

For our kids, this is the status quo, so they don't know the difference.

It is much harder I think for those of us that grew up that way to accept the way things have changed.

[gti420]

Todd, it's rediculous that the school drug tests your children. I would refuse on sheer principle. They don't have the right to get that far into your business. It is the parent's job to raise the kids, not the school.

Man I with I was born 30 years earlier

[Trooper110]

My grandpa talks about carrying a pocketknife to school and cleaning his finger nails with it in the middle of class. I remember a few times accidently taking a pocketknife to school and being death afraid someone would learn about it and a teacher would find out and I'd get out of school suspension for a week. I did it in today's age and someone found out, I'd be arrested to start off with, and who knows what charges against me or my parents. It's freaking insane.

[killa_zn]

Is this true......... Apache?

[Trooper110]

Here's a question....why do we always pick on Apache?






He can't help it if he was born before electricity

[drunken_chef]

i was 8 years old in 1967, it's true.

[minfootball]

lol on a side note
6 years ago all these rules were still in effect yet for a class we had to do a presentation so i got permission to bring in a hunting bow and shoot it at a target outside of the class room
this bow is strong enough to bring down a deer

at the same time a student was forbidden to do a report on firearms saftey (without actual guns just pictures).

i guess i dont see the logic
ps i agree that all the junk like this today is absolute bs

[killa_zn]

Here's a question....why do we always pick on Apache?

He can't help it if he was born before electricity

Apache is walking history!

[mapes]

I agree with some of the statements but, sometimes...the whining gets to me. Times change and no not all of it is bad. Although the story of the bow and gun school thing reminded me of something.

If you ask people today which is a more dangerous home for children

a. A home with a firearm

or

b. A home with a pool

An independent study found out that most people said the home with a firearm. Statistically speaking however, the home with a pool is far more dangerous by like a factor of 5.

[Todd98]

I agree with some of the statements but, sometimes...the whining gets to me. Times change and no not all of it is bad. Although the story of the bow and gun school thing reminded me of something.

If you ask people today which is a more dangerous home for children

a. A home with a firearm

or

b. A home with a pool

An independent study found out that most people said the home with a firearm. Statistically speaking however, the home with a pool is far more dangerous by like a factor of 5.

I find that even though hard to believe that a pool is more dangerous than a loaded gun in the house hold! I guess if you had a choice if you where staring down the barrel of a gun if the pool was still as dangerous?

[imlittlev]

its depressingly true

[Trooper110]

Pool is more dangerous because even if you have a fence around it, it's big and a kid will notice it and eventually find a way through or over the fence. In which case they can fall in and drown.

A responsible firearm owner will have the firearm locked in a safe or cabinet, ammunition either on a high shelf in said container, and children really have no need to even know it's there. In the case of a handgun, even if kept in at bedside, which is stupid in any case, should not be kept loaded or with the ammunition by it.