Category: Let's talk
These are all true...
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 alearning 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 becomes 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 the 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
His 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.
I understand the meaning bhind this board topic. I know sadly our society has gotten to political correct that boys can't be boys. Some of those senarios are a bit extreme though.
Wow, sad but ture.
things like this really happen. where has the common sense gone?