The Glade 4.0

(Sadly, this isn't that much of an exaggeration)

HOW 50 YEARS MAKES A DIFFERENCE…..

SCHOOL--1959 vs. 2009


Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in the gun rack.

1959 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2009 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselor called in for traumatized students and teachers.



Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.

1959 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2009 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charges them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.



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

1959 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2009 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.



Scenario:

Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1959 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to 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.

1959 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2009 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario:
Pedro fails high school English.

1959 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2009 - 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 given 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.

1959 - Ants die.
2009- 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.


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.

1959 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2009 - 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.

lol

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Ron Paul 2012

So true, so true.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

I used to hunt squirrel on my way home from school, so I'd stash my rifle in a hollow tree in full view of everyone on my bus in the morning so I could hunt on the half mile walk home that evening. All the bus driver would do is ask "You get any yesterday"?

I wonder how many parents give 10 year old's unfettered access to firearms these days.

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In time, this too shall pass.

My buddies and I used to leave our .22 rifles in our cars so we could go shooting after school.

I had a BB gun once...

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Ron Paul 2012

While I don't think that a majority of schools would go quite to the lengths explained in the above scenarios, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some ultra-PR member on their boards that at least suggested them as a CYA.

Like I said, I see them as amusing exaggerations, but not completely outside the realm of possibility.

C'mon now. Is it really an affair if Billy's dad is in jail?

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Yup, those were the days.

If you were male, middle class, white, Christian, healthy, and born to loving parents.

Of course, girls were marginalized, there were no programs for the poor, minorites were not accepted yet, diseases we don't worry about anymore killed people and there were no treatments for psycho-social issues, and your parents could beat you to death with no repercussions. But yeah, members of the privileged class sure had it good. Shame the rest of us wanted rights too, and spoiled it.

Well, at least now I know who to blame.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

God help you if you were female and did any of those things...

I just remember going to Catholic school and getting in trouble for being a 'tomboy'. My brother came in once to support me when I corrected the erroneous science on a worksheet. (you see he had gone to the same school before and the Nuns gave him honors for what they castigated me for.) Amazingly the Nuns backed down and changed my grade from a D- to and A when I was proved right.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

Funny how that same group you mention is probably among the most disadvantaged groups out there these days. I suppose having something to complain about is nice though. It's so much easier in life when we have excuses to fall back on. I'm all for equal rights, but it's funny how things come full circle.

I like the original post. It's quite true, though slightly exaggerated for some of them.

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You should hang out in Hellfire more often, this is exactly how false choice dillemas are created.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Want to know what else has changed, I was looking at my attendance today and realized I have 25 kids in my homeroom and 12 of them are all labeled with something.

LD
ADD
ADHD
or get this
Most of them have double labels mostly with ASTHMA

There were never half as many problems back when I was a kid.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

This. Plus the normal romanticization of the past. The present isn't that bad, and the past wasn't that good.

I think ODD is at least partly to blame (Obsessive Diagnosis Disorder).

When I think back to elementary school in the late 60s and early 70's. Quite a few of the kids had what would be classified now as 'behavioral issues' (myself included).