Funny, but sad & true!

[Doc]

I graduated in 1982, & some of this was still happening then. Didn't think twice about having a pocket knife on us & if you didn't have a gun rack in your truck window with a gun in it, everybody wanted to know if someone had stolen your rifle.

HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007

Scenario 1:


Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's 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 2:

Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.

2007 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
 



Scenario 3:

Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.

1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability. 


Scenario 4:

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 is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist. 
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Scenario 5:

Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.

2007 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons. 



Scenario 6:

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 teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher.  English is then banned from core cur riculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English. 


 


 

Scenario 7:

Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.

1957 - Ants die.

2007 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. 


 


 

Scenario 8:

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.   

 

[clubcalve]

: (lol)

 

[CM Cattle]

(lol)
(clapping)

 

[jbw]

I just brought my gun into school, put it in my locker, and never worried about a thing.  I always had a knife in my pocket. I would not make it through school these days!  We thought it was bad when they would not let us wear 'Spuds McKenzie' shirts to school, or 'co-ed naked' shirts. That was not in 1957, that was in 1990! When I got into 5 grade I found out the P.E. teacher had a thing called the A$$wapper!!  Not something I wanted to see again. All the teachers need one of those bad boys!!

 

[farmboy]

ive got busted for tylenol before when i was borderline going to school/staying home. they are crazy these days

 

[Steer Boy 101]

Im in school right now. We would get kicked out in a flashi if we ever got checked. i live in a 14000 pop town and we got around 600 in our higschool. the "hick" all got "redneck" trucks and got guns in em and knives in our pockets. thast us. all the kids know it a teachr and shop teacherr know it but dont say anyhting and if we ever got checked we would be screw. we screw itwht the drug dogs that come in all the time. one guy had a dog wistle and we put butter in a locker wihch is like cocaine then one of my other buddies put rotten meat in a locker haha. school is not the same. my dad always say half of the depressed ppl now days just need to be snapped back to reality. idk half the stuff schools worrie aobut shouldnt be worried about and the stuff like our 3 week old burgars from soy prouducts is just peachy. my dad had home cooked meals for lunch. idk i keep doin what im doin

 

[inthebarnagain]

A friend of ours daughter, who was in middle school at the time had forgotten to take her pocketknife out of her pocket after she had went to the barn to feed her calves and used the knife to cut the bale string.  When she got to school she realized she had it but kept it in her pocket.  Another kid who was mad at her knew their was the possibility that she had the pocket knife and told on her.  One week in school suspension.  The sad thing is, we are out in the country where kids going to the barn before school is the norm, not the exception. 

 

[knabe]

if you think this is bad, thought police are already infecting the classroom.

al gore said yesterday, "you know more than your parents do" regarding global warming to a classroom of kids.  this is undermining parental authority and one of the central tenets of communism.  but nobody cares.  it's just too much trouble.  the government should be the parents of our children.  people, you don't realize how close they are.

 

[LN]

What worries me these days is how terrible young people's grammar and writing has become. I work with a youth organization and their composition skills are pitiful. I know part of it is to blame on texting and instant messenger, but do they even teach this in school anymore?

 

[Doc]

I know what you mean ,LN. Especially with spell check available, unless it's spelled so bad that spell check doesn't even recognize the word. Someimes there are posts that are so bad I can't begin to understand what they are trying to say.

 

[farmboy]

not in highschool ,your expected to know that stuff by high school.

not n hiskool, yer xpectid 2 no dat stuff bi hi skool

 

[shortyjock89]

It's not that hard to type correctly. I don't remember the last time a teacher actually tried to teach composition or grammar to a class I was a part of. 

 

[knabe]

It's not that hard to type correctly. I don't remember the last time a teacher actually tried to teach composition or grammar to a class I was a part of. 

my daughter in first grade learned transition words.  example

first, i posted in a thread about my purity
second, i posted in a thread about someone else's impurity.
finally, i the messenger was killed.

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

I graduated in 1982, & some of this was still happening then. Didn't think twice about having a pocket knife on us & if you didn't have a gun rack in your truck window with a gun in it, everybody wanted to know if someone had stolen your rifle.

HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2007

Scenario 1:


Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's 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.   

I know about this all to well.  My senior year of high school I went to school the Monday after opening day of dove season and that weekend a bunch of friends and I went hunting.  We then picked up all the spent shells and threw them in the back of my truck.  I got to school the next Monday and didn't think anything of it.  Well during my last class of the day which just so happened to be hunters safety class the security guard comes in and pulls me out of class and asks if there is anything in my truck that I need to tell him about.  I said no.  he walks me out to my truck and there is another security guard and the asst. principle standing there.  They ask if they can search my truck and when they do they pull out 3 unshot shells.  One of them is an old paper wrapped shell from around the 60's or so.  They automatically give me 1 week out of school suspension and they tell me that they are going to try to expel me.  Well after they talked to the DA about my case(who I had been hunting budys with his son since we could shoot) told them that there was no way that he would prosecute me for that they stopped trying to expel me.  I came back to school on Sept. 12 2001.  I had to have  a reinstatement meeting with the principle, on the way to school that morning I told my parents that if she compared me to the terrorists that I would not be held responsible for what I might tell her.  Well she did and I did what any red blooded American would if compared to those people.  Well after that meeting I was let back into school and she didn't mess with me the rest of the year.  I even placed a spent shotshell on my antenna of my truck.  Long story short, this no tolerance policy they have now days is bull.  I never should have been taken out of school.  Neither should most people that do stupid stuff like that.  That same year a kid was expelled because he had a leatherman in his pocket used for fixing computers that he was doing for the school.  A teacher saw him use the pliers one day and asked if he was allowed to have that.  He didn't know, neither did the teacher so they went down to the office, the principle took it and expelled him on the spot.  I am so glad that I am out of there.  OK done venting for tonight.

 

[renegade]

Actually when I text and my friends too - we shorten up very few things - like omg, idk or substitute a number for a word like - 4 (four). Some kids do the whole weird shorten or change every word and its dumb and I dont have a single friend who does.  I know of a lot of country kids bringing knives to school and I did a few times on accident and if they ever seached my truck I would have been out of luck - half the time I didnt even know what was in there because like a parent throws something in or you comeback from a show or the barn and dont clean everything out

 

[CPL]

As someone who currently attends school and watches hostage situations on the news whenever it arises I'm glad that schools have strictened up there policies. Yeah 99% of the people at school would never intentionally kill someone, its the 1% you have to worry about. So I have no problems with them banning guns on gov't property(schools, court houses, etc) as a measure of safety.

 

[red]

I'm a terrible speller. thank goodness for spell check. I try to play a game w/ myself to see how many times I can write a post & have no mistakes the 1st time. I'm also trying to get into the habit of looking up words in the dictionary that don't come up on spell check.

Red

BTW- this time I made 1 mistake by not capitalizing I'm. 

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

As someone who currently attends school and watches hostage situations on the news whenever it arises I'm glad that schools have strictened up there policies. Yeah 99% of the people at school would never intentionally kill someone, its the 1% you have to worry about. So I have no problems with them banning guns on gov't property(schools, court houses, etc) as a measure of safety.

I to watch those on tv, but all you have to do is think "do those people really care about the rules or laws" If I am going to go into a school or somewhere else with the intent to do harm to someone I don't think that I will really care that I am not allowed to have a gun in school.  All of the situations that involved guns in school the people didn't do it after being there all day with the gun.  This is the same reason that banning guns WOULD NOT make us any safer.  A criminal with a gun and knows that you don't will attack you more often than if they think that you might be packing. 

 

[LN]

I'm a terrible speller. thank goodness for spell check. I try to play a game w/ myself to see how many times I can write a post & have no mistakes the 1st time. I'm also trying to get into the habit of looking up words in the dictionary that don't come up on spell check.

Red

BTW- this time I made 1 mistake by not capitalizing I'm. 

One mistake??? I guess that's forgivable. I took a copy-editing clas in college and that's why I'm such a freak about writing. You never know who's going to see your work. My best friend is a high school ag teacher and she had her class write a paper about natural resource conservation and she said over half of her students plagairized (copy and pasting from the internet) and it was obvious because they didn't even format the text to match their own. She also saw a lot of shortened words i.e. "u" instead of "you" in their work.

 

[ELBEE]

Thank you Davis! It's all about "intent". 99% of Americans could walk into any public place fully armed and never "intend" to harm anyone. It's the other 1% that will figure out a way to take Innocent's lives!