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Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:
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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
are called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight 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.
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 parents; siblings are removed from home; com-
puters 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.
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:
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You know something that is almost the God's honet truth!  
Everyone is so scared for saying or doing anything for fear of getting sued!
My oldest son struggles in school and the best the teacher's could come up with to help was....have his brother help him remember what his homework is!  Yeah that will work.
Then a week later one of his teacher's called my wife and work saying that he did not come to class prepared...he didn't have a pencil. Well good grief, give him a pencil and get on with teaching class, but NOOOOOO waste time calling my wife at work and disrupting her to say he doesn't have a pencil. 
And we wonder why a majority of kids today are clueless!
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:
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| {uZa}Cyber-Patriot wrote: | You know something that is almost the God's honet truth!
Everyone is so scared for saying or doing anything for fear of getting sued!
My oldest son struggles in school and the best the teacher's could come up with to help was....have his brother help him remember what his homework is! Yeah that will work.
Then a week later one of his teacher's called my wife and work saying that he did not come to class prepared...he didn't have a pencil. Well good grief, give him a pencil and get on with teaching class, but NOOOOOO waste time calling my wife at work and disrupting her to say he doesn't have a pencil.
And we wonder why a majority of kids today are clueless! |
I know what you mean by the whole pencil thing. I've seen student after student receive a zero on a big test because they forgot a pencil or a sheet of paper.
Don't even get me started on the ACT I took the other day. 
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:20 am Post subject:
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Pitthunter, what you wrote is so true! I myself was born in the early 60-ies, and when I did something wrong my dad was very good in letting me know that I did something wrong  . He did not need some weird psychologist! You see where it brought me? Spamming the forums on uzaclan.net ...lol...  ...just kidding.
I still thank my dad he straightened me out when I was a pain in the @$$! I did learn the importance of values and respect!
As MrGr1mm was saying: "times have changed", but the way I feel it, certainly not for the better!!!
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Conscia mens recti, famae mendacia ridet.
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:45 am Post subject:
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Amok - same here. I was born in '60, and when we were bad an attitude adjustment was delivered. Swift, to the point, and painful. I survived and so did my friends.
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:48 am Post subject:
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I think Shakespeare said it best, "Let's kill all the lawyers and start over."
That's a huge part of the equation. Political Correctness, combined with a litigious society (brought on by dirtbag lawyers - but I repeat myself), and a serious lack of moral values by too many people in our culture, has led us down the road to ruin. I mean let's face it, there are more people concerned about Paris Hilton's jail time than about our southern border. WHAT THE F***!!!
I remember when I was in elementary school, if you got "out-of-hand" in class the teacher would whack you with a ruler (not a Catholic school, either), then send you to the principal, who would, if the situation warranted, take a paddle to your backside. Then when you got home mom and dad had a shot at you, because the school had called them about your behavior. My wife teaches kindergarten (over 25 years now) and she cannot touch the little urchins, no matter what they do, AND THE KIDS KNOW IT!! She has had 5 year olds cuss her out knowing that the worst that will happen is that they will be sent to the principal. The principal will simply call the parents to advise them or ask them to come pick up "little Johnny." Of course the chances are that the parents are a**holes themselves and simply won't hear that their little angel would do such a thing. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Will the madness ever end?!
Do any of you wonder why I constantly opine that I weep for our nation?
*hyperventilating* I swear to you, guys, its like we are stuck in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Things have become so surreal that you wonder if you're just dreaming and will soon wake up to find that it all never really happened. It's a wonder more of us haven't gone absolutely insane.
Now if you'll excuse me, I must go see my lawyer about suing my parents. They didn't hug me enough when I was growing up and as a result I spend too much time on my computer trying to cultivate meaningful relationships.
Hold me!
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Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:06 am Post subject:
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Agreed! I see it every day, as a cop assigned to work in schools, how very true your message was Pit! I too was born in the 60's, and Lord knows I got a lot of paddlings in the principals office! We need some good @$$ whoopings again!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:37 am Post subject:
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You turned out OK Hogan - as did I. Perhaps it's time to bring back some of the "old school" ways.
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| I have just decided to have all my family members wear bicycle safety helmets and pads both outdoors and indoors at all times of the day. With the amount of potential accidents we can get into you can never be too safe in this day and age!
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