High School 1959-2009

Discipline - 5-20-2010 at 01:18 PM

HIGH SCHOOL --1959 vs. 2009

Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's 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. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1959 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2009 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both
Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1959 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD.. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4:
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 is removed to
foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.

Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1959 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock..
2009 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations.. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario 6:
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 the state school system and Pedro'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.

Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed..
1959 - Ants die.
2009 -ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents --and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario 8:
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.

Six66Mike - 5-20-2010 at 10:11 PM

Fun things I've noticed with a kid in school:

Some of the teacher's can't spell. "thankyou" is a common one, and I swear I'm not making this up - On a school sign back in Adelaide it said "saftey" instead of "safety".

Apparently "johnny and me" or "me and johnny" are grammatically correct now, "johhny and i" is no longer accepted.

Students are going to grade 5, 6 and beyond without the ability to read. Nobody fails any more, everyone passes. There's no summer school, there's no grading. Schools give comments now, nobody gets A's and B's or percentage scores in primary school at all.

School's are a breeding ground for laziness and complacency these days. Nobody is learning anything, it's day care made to mold our kids into fucking sheep.

clevohardcore - 5-20-2010 at 10:21 PM

I have a much younger cousin that is exactly what 666mike described. I was a sub for a fifth grade class 2 years ago as a requirement for a class of mine. His teacher and i were talking and she stated he had only 27% in her social studies class. She also stated he was going to pass since he is never absent and never causes any issues. Unreal.

spyderdog - 5-21-2010 at 08:58 AM

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Originally posted by Six66Mike
Fun things I've noticed with a kid in school:

Some of the teacher's can't spell. "thankyou" is a common one, and I swear I'm not making this up - On a school sign back in Adelaide it said "saftey" instead of "safety".

Apparently "johnny and me" or "me and johnny" are grammatically correct now, "johhny and i" is no longer accepted.

Students are going to grade 5, 6 and beyond without the ability to read. Nobody fails any more, everyone passes. There's no summer school, there's no grading. Schools give comments now, nobody gets A's and B's or percentage scores in primary school at all.

School's are a breeding ground for laziness and complacency these days. Nobody is learning anything, it's day care made to mold our kids into fucking sheep.

schools have no money and are restlessly hammered on by bored, out of touch, often religiously motivated parents with lawyers that refuse to admit they are doing a bullshit job fostering their kids education at home via television, video games, and prescription drugs, and that their kids may have irrepressible shit wrong with them as a result

case in point with columbine, and with almost every scenario brought up in that highly entertaining (im not being sarcastic here) piece the OP posted. the bottom line is that parents now dont ever want their kids to ever feel ANYTHING good or bad. good makes them free thinkers and difficult, and bad makes them overly self conscious and traditional "losers" that wont be popular. it makes parents jobs easier and it makes for a better sale about how great little johnny is doing to their equally delusional friends and neighbors.

this is a major reason why charter schools have such great appeal for so many and why its such an easy political sell when legislation is introduced to allow tax payer money into them.....even though things like that are blatantly illegal via the first amendment of the constitution, and horribly immoral when it comes to the general well being of the community in the long run

bottom line is that public schools have an awful lot working against them in this country right now, and its really really sad

right now the average classroom in arizona (7th grade) now has 36 kids per teacher, and an average of $500 dollars a year available to them in funding for materials for the entire class

you cant put new tires on a Hyundai for that much let alone create a legitimate learning environment for 36 future members of your community

the main difference between 1959 and 2009 is that in 1959 parents stayed the fuck out of the classroom where they weren't trained to be, and dont know how to run, and they didnt attempt to manhandle a kids education like they do now. they trusted the teachers to do their jobs and mr smith went about his day selling Frigidaires and mrs smith made pies and watched her stories (or vice versa....whatever your pleasure)

as the old saying goes.......

too many cooks in the kitchen ruins the soup

DaveMoral - 5-22-2010 at 05:43 PM

^I like that post Spyderdog.