{"id":7719,"date":"2014-07-24T03:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/07\/24\/high-school-1957-vs-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T03:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T03:31:17","slug":"high-school-1957-vs-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/07\/24\/high-school-1957-vs-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGH SCHOOL &#8212; 1957 vs. 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nScenario 1: <\/p>\n<p>\tJack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck&#8217;s gun rack..<\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack&#8217;s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.<\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 2: <\/p>\n<p>\tJohnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.<\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.<\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; Police called and SWAT team arrives &#8212; they arrest both Johnny and Mark.They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.<\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 3: <\/p>\n<p>\tJeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.<\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Jeffrey sent to the Principal&#8217;s office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. <\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.<\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 4: <\/p>\n<p>\tBilly breaks a window in his neighbor&#8217;s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt. <\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman..<\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; Billy&#8217;s dad is arrested for child abuse, Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by <br \/>\n\t         Billy&#8217;s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy&#8217;s mom has an affair with the psychologist.<\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 5: <\/p>\n<p>\tMark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.<\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Mark shares his aspirin with a friend who also has a headache.<\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons. <\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 6: <\/p>\n<p>\tPedro fails high school English.<\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.<\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; Pedro&#8217;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&#8217;s English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum.. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English. <\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 7: <\/p>\n<p>\tJohnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed. <\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; Ants die.<\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents &#8211; and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny&#8217;s dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. <\/p>\n<p>\tScenario 8: <\/p>\n<p>\tJohnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him. <\/p>\n<p>\t1957 &#8211; In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing. <\/p>\n<p>\t2014 &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n<p>\tThis should hit every email inbox to show how stupid we have become!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on July 25, 2014, 3:00 pm<\/p>\n<div>Sad but true.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck&#8217;s gun rack.. 1957 &#8211; Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack&#8217;s shotgun, goes to his car and gets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}