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Sad and True







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 a learning 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 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 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.

Actually makes our country look like a bunch of nut case's don't it ?
To bad we have to live it everyday!

realy like this kind of stuff about history Of the USA

posylady

there was a bunch of us that did a three or four page posting about stuff like this
see if you cant find it you will enjoye it I think

Take a close look at the scenarios in the initial post. What do ALL the 2007 scenarios have in common? Gross overreaction, coupled with a complete lack of common sense, that's what! This is what happens when litigating becomes the national pastime, and judges legislate from the bench. Those who doubt this can perhaps explain just how many things have happened in America since 1967 that could be called "improvements". There aren't many!

bumping up

I have heard too many illegal defenders say that crap that making people learn English is racist. To quote K.C. McAlpin founder of Pro English "It's a language not a race." Please everyone check out Pro English

I was a kid in the 50's and that's the way things were.

Agree. We are lawsuit happy over the dumbest things.

No wonder people have such wrong impressions of most of us.

Originally Posted by posylady

Actually makes our country look like a bunch of nut case's don't it ?
To bad we have to live it everyday!

If you look like a nut-case... maybe you are one.

What I mean is, your words aren't funny. It's "too true to be funny".

This country acts utterly insane.

A lot of schools in this country now have ridiculous policies regarding kids having an over the counter medication. The comment made above regarding aspirin was no exaggeration.

This article is from 1992, but the policies haven't changed:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A964958260