Times have changed....

[shadowofnight]

Some of these are downright sad....we sure could use that Flux Capacitor right about now.




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.


Scenario: Johnny is playing baseball his team is about to win.

1967 -Johnny's team wins, the losers congratulate them, and they celebrate. The losing team goes back to the dug out, the coach rips them a new one, and they try harder in the next game and win. Some of the kids go on to play college and professional sports.

2007 - Johnny's team wins, but they're not keeping score, both teams are told that there are no winners or losers, it's all about how you play the game. Most the kids stop playing sports, and start working in fast food.

[Sherardp]

Wow this is so sad but very very true. Although I didnt grow up in the 60s, I remembered getting spanked in class by the principal, given aspirin in school, fighting and be friends later on, etc. Now if you get into a fight, best to watch ya ass cause more than likely the student is going to come back shooting everyone that was watching the fight to begin with. Times really have changed, and its not really a great change at all.

[VR3]

It sounds like...

Everyone that got their ass kicked and made fun of -- grew up and became pansies and are wanting to make their children politically correct zombies...

The kids from 1965 -- that grew up, are the parents of the kids in 2007 that are doing what you just said...

Keep that in mind --

Times are a changing, but those guys from the 60's are the ones doin the changing ;)

[danger boy]

1967 - we had real music to listen to.. the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Jefferson Aiplane, Motown

2007 - Fergie peeing her pants

[daboyz]

No, she was just sweating alot.......

[RuSsMaN]

Oh puke.

Not another "good ole days" post. Everyone fall on your own sword! Life isn't worth living anymore!

[audiobliss]

Hey, somebody send me their gear before giving it all up!!

:D

[shadowofnight]

No, she was just sweating alot.......

Interesting sweat pattern :) More like the " I had sex with my boyfriend before the concert " pattern

[ledhed]

That list is total BS. Shows how out of touch a lot of adults are with teenagers. Sure there are extreme cases that get picked up and blown up by the media but in no way are most current schools like this at all.

[danger boy]

i agree this list is BS.. it should read more like this..

1967 - people were listening to vinyl albums
2007 - people still listening to vinyl albums :)

1967 - women were burning their bras
2007 - women can't burn their bras because the possibility of fake boobie injuries :p

1967 - it was all about free love
2007 - it's all about how to get viagra to be able to make love

it's all good.. but yeah. ever couple months one of these threads gets posted and a few people get upset about it. it'll blow over.