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[Bibbitybop]

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1973 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 - School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1973 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1973 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1973 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1973 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973 : Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006 : Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. 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 can't speak English.

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Scenario: Johnny takes leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed .

1973 - Ants die.

2006 - 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.

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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.

1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

[Pligganease]

It's amzing how sadly realistic that post is...

[djsmnc]

Incredible, and so true

[Ya-ta Boy]

[RACETRAITOR]

[tophatcat]

I graduated high school in the 80�s. In my 4 years at the school I remember 2 girls being pregnant. I have a friend who teaches at this same high school now. So, he keeps me up to date on things in the school. The student body has increased by about 30% since I graduated. He told me that there were about 15-18 students pregnant there last year.

Seems like the system has really improved Ya-ta boy. Think how terrible it would be if it were like the good old days!

[mole]

Wow. How many old farts are here?
I made my first abortion a year after we didn't have to tell her parents.
Certainly a slap in the face, sitting in the clinic at 17.
Now, my kid is 16, irresponsible, and they've changed the law again.
We'd have to tell the girl's family.
I don't want them as my in-laws. Make it secret again.

[cdninkorea]

[OiGirl]

Zero tolerance for drug and weapons...

[Woland]

This is one of those rightwing nostalgia pieces of crap, how everything was better back when. It would easy, but excessively time consuming, to go through here and show the premises on both ends presented in each case here have been rigged to make the old days look good and modern times look bad. What rubbish!

bibbitybop - I've met you. You seemed smarter than this. I'm really disappointed.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Pligganease]

Actually, I think it was an joke made funny by it's exaggeration. It's probably a forwarded e-mail.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[cbclark4]

The difference in the OPs scenarios, I think can be explained by simply understanding the difference between public education versus governement.

Public education is funded with public funds and directed on a local level by those who have vested interest in the local community.

Government education is funded with public funds and directed by big govenment who has interest in appeasing a very strong lobby.

Private schools seem to have less of these problems.

cbc

[Jeju Rocks]

My highschool, back in the late 60s, early 70s had a shooting range in the basement.