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Changing Times - 1/17/2007 7:39:34 PM   
LotusSong


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Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.





1966 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 - 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.

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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school. 

1966 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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

1966 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1966 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1966 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons. 

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1966 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1966: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. 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 can't speak English.

++++++++++++++++++++++++

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1966 - Ants die.

2006 - 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.

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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.

1966 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing. 

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.
 

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RE: Changing Times - 1/17/2007 10:18:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		It’s funny but it is also tragic because it is all so true.  Further evidence that we as a society are abandoning common sense and practical judgments.

Concerning the guns, something that might interest you: My grandfather owned some rural land with a schoolhouse on it that was used in the late 1800's to the 1950's. I once talked to a woman who had taught there during the 1920's.  She told us that the boys would bring their guns to school so they could hunt on the way there and on the way back, and the schoolhouse had a gun rack in it!  These were poor families and not all of the students could afford to bring a lunch so sometimes she wold cook the morning catches for the class on the schoolhouse’s cast iron stove.

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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 7:23:17 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b

It’s funny but it is also tragic because it is all so true.


sigh... I know :/

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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 10:14:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		The question is not if it is funny which it is but are they all based on truths????? I see a few that are

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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 11:13:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		The only two I'm not absolutely sure of is the gun rack one (Only because I was raised in a different region).. and the fire cracker one. 

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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 11:32:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		We must have common friends. I received this in email last night too along with this:

"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 11:52:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not sure these all have to be absolutely true, the fact is that they are all possible given today's atmosphere of "danger, danger the sky is falling" everytime something happens.  I grew up in a rural ranching community and it is a fact many of us had hunting rifles in our posession on school grounds and a lot of times the teachers wanted to see the new ones, and heck, even take a target shot at a fence post or beer can (said beer cans found in the bed of another pickup).  Yes, we used leftover firecrackers to blow up ant hills (and smoke bombs to blow up outhouses and school toilets).  I will refrain from recounting a true story involving a leftover roman candle and the posterior end of an unconsenting bovine.

The one about "Jeffrey" not sitting still in class is sadly very true.  The one about teachers no longer being able to comfort younger kids is true. Of course,  OTC, non-prescription medications have not been allowed on school grounds for a long time now.  Remember when girls who had cramps could take paragoric at school, right out of their purse?  Heck, who even remembers being able to buy paragoric?  Worrying about disciplining your own child is true.

What about the news story a few years ago where a young boy (maybe kinder???) ran over and kissed a girl classmate ar play time?  he was sent home, his parents had to come to a conferrence, the little girl was sent to counseling, his parents were sued by hers .... good grief!!!   Sadly it is often true that when the pendulem swings, it goes too far.
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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 3:32:09 PM   
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which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.


That reminds me of something my Grandfather – hands down the wisest man I ever knew – said: "Son, if you have a piece of shit and you pour perfume on it, then wrap it up in a pretty pink bow – it’s still a piece of shit."

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RE: Changing Times - 1/18/2007 7:23:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is it wrong to wish that I was born in the 50's or early 60's so I could have experienced some of those things? I'll admit to sneaking OTC medication to school when I had a terrible cold, and once I even brought the antibiotics I was on for pneumonia because I didn't want the hassle of going through the school nurse for it.

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RE: Changing Times - 1/19/2007 4:19:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Feh, Just goes to show, people are crazy... I could stand on my soapbox for days on these little issues, but I do have work in an hour and half... but one thing, I had a friend who was expelled for carrying Midol around. I'm sorry, most girls don't like the idea of getting a permission slip from their 'mommy', taking it to the nurse, and going sometimes halfway across a large campus (like the school I went too... It was HUGE) to stand in line for a pain pill, when they can attempt to sneak it in the bathroom or something.

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