Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1958 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - 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: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1958 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1958 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1958 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to 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.
1958 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock. 2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1958 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2008 - 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 given 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.
1958 - Ants die .
2008 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings 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, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1958 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - 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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13 comments:
Why stop at 1958 in your time machine? With this type of hyperbole/non-sense/kooky talk, why don't you head back to Revolutionary times-say, 1778: musket slaughters in schools were much more limited, we were only 100or so years away from making hoof and mouth disease a thing of the past, nobody had any allergic reactions to penicillin-they got smallpox AND THEY LIKED IT!, nuclear reactor cores almost never melted down and for some reason all the cars back then didn't cause as much pollution....and John McCain was only in the 2nd grade...Good times, Good times...
I don't think reese bobby quite understands the joke - these things really do happen in 2008. they really are happening.
I like the john mccain joke tho :)
Reese Bobby understands more than you think....that is why he encourages you to focus on REAL, RELEVANT issues and vote accordingly. Why would you even entertain lofty concerns about race, religion and morality when Salisbury's local officials can't even provide basic sanitation, clean water, functional roads/bridges, productive schools and adequate housing/public safety? You guys need to start working your Maslow's pyramid from the foundation first before you get too fancy with the other stuff.
sure life was better in 1958.....and all those coloreds knew their place
No it was not better then.
You people are stupid if you can't read between the lines. It has to do with children and how children were disciplined between 1958 ad 2008. It has nothing to do with race, or other things. Kids were better behaved in 58 then 08.
5:32. No...YOU see the bigger picture. Penicillin wasn't even readily available until well after Pearl Harbor; Al Gore wouldn't invent the internet for 30 years or so after 1958 (which has led to all kinds of cyber privacy/crime/mischief issues with teens and children that FDR never imagined, let alone our constitutional framers). That isn't even like comparing apples and oranges-it is like oranges and sweatsocks. It is very easy for kids to be well behaved when they were enclosed in the imaginary "Barbie House" that was Pre-Vietnam America. However, society changes very quickly from time to time-are you going to deal with the cards you have NOW, or lose more of your chips by not accepting certain realities? If you find Grandpa (pick a grandpa, any grandpa) he will also tell you the nickel Hershey Bar story too...the lovely memory will do you absolutely no good (and as you think more while waiting in line it will actually make you angry)as you stand in line to purchase the $2 Snicker bar at the local Quickee Mart.
It's funny how much truth there is to this. Heck, it wasn't this bad 20 years ago.
W e have attempted to put band-aids on every friggin' problem and they only get worse and worse and more expensive and worse and more expensive...... What does that tell you?????
You got it backwards! Your name is really Bobby Reese, you idjit!!!!
8:58. No you over caffeinated idjit-I am Reese Bobby....Stick with trying to zip up your pants correctly before confronting the big boys.
What really gets my panties in a bunch these days is that if a student is attacked at school by another student (or more than one), that student will also be disciplined, as in detention, suspension, etc., if he/she defends him or herself. Something is really, really wrong with that. I guess the proper thing to do is lie there and get beaten to a pulp---but don't bleed. They'll suspend you for that.
you just showed what i have been telling you.
POLICE STATE.
The end.
Sounds a litle bit like selective fascism to me. There is a point here, to be sure, though not necessarily the one the author was attempting.
There are examples in both time periods of overreaction and excessive force by the state. I take it the author has a fetish for the ones in 1958, but condemns the 2008 big government interference ( as do I).
The Police State was alive and well back then. Its energies were just focused elsewhere. Be assured that wherever else energies were focused back then the state was still causing harm. Its just shifting its focus and even more overgrown, but is has always been well-fed.
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