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 them 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.
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That is so true, the only thing you left out is that if you even talk about guns at school they treat you like a murderer and call your parents to ask about your guns.
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My freshman year we took a hunter safety course in our Vo-Ag class and had to bring our own guns,. The teacher also was able to fit in a few other kids from other classes also. He made sure we brought a good cross section of rifles, shotguns and handguns in different calibers and type ie. pump, bolt, auoto's as well as revolvers and pistols.
Our principal brought in a jacked up .22 match rifle with al the whistles and bells kind of as a show and tell. This is the same guy who would swing the paddle when you messed up also.
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Bro. Bob's 1959 version is very similar to my Senior year in highschool in 1956. The "NO Tolerance Policy" that they use today is totally wrong and unfair to our students. Each incident should be judged on its own merits.
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this is satire and mostly hyperbolic. I work in a school district and have for the past 4 years. It is nothing like mentioned, and anything similar is extremely exaggerated.
this is satire and mostly hyperbolic. I work in a school district and have for the past 4 years. It is nothing like mentioned, and anything similar is extremely exaggerated.
As exaggerated as it is, you have to admit the attitude is somewhat there.
this is satire and mostly hyperbolic. I work in a school district and have for the past 4 years. It is nothing like mentioned, and anything similar is extremely exaggerated.
But how much does a janitor deal with kids?
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When I was in high school, I had an English teacher nicknamed "Jolly Wally" who taught Creative Writing. He was extremely sarcastic if you wrote something stupid or said something stupid in class, loved it if a student could give back as good as he/she got, and was known to whip a piece of chalk at a student who wasn't paying attention in class.
Admission to Jolly Wally's writing classes was by application only each term, space was limited and kids used to fight to get into them. Only the smart survived, but classes with Wally were never dull. You either learned to think or you'd sink. It was a class for those who wanted to learn. He was probably the most popular and most respected teacher in the English Department, and in the top five for the entire high school. He put up with absolutely no nonsense, never had discipline problems in his classroom, and kids in his classes never felt their time was wasted or that they were being badly treated.
By now I imagine he's retired; but I've always wondered how Jolly Wally coped with the politically correct, don't bruise the widdle darlings' feelings, can't touch the pweciuss students late 1980s and later years. He never suffered fools and that included his department head, who was afraid of him. He was the kind of teacher kids who want to learn dream about. There are never many of them in any given school and they are to be cherished when you can find one. I was lucky enough to go to a high school and have classes with a few teachers like this. But from what I can tell, my school was even then the exception and not the rule. Today, from what I can tell the restrictions imposed on teachers by idiotic national tests and foolish laws and over-concern for the widdle darlings' feelings instead of their intellects do not serve America well at all. I suspect the best teachers are being driven from education in disgust - or at least they are being driven into private schools where the pay is better and the bullshit level is lower.
I really have to question if America's public schools still give good value for the dollars that are spent on them. I hope my perception of them as publicly funded baby-sitting services is not the norm across the nation.
