Times have changed...

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.


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.


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



1973 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal.

He 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.


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.


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.


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.


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.



Scenario: Johnny takes apart 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.


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.

I like this one. Sad, but quite true.

That pretty much sums up things and the times.

Id rather die than live in that idea of 1973, praise be that times have changed.

HUH!!!!!!!!!!! You must have lost your mind.

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Id rather die than live in that idea of 1973, praise be that times have changed.

[/ QUOTE ] Aerosmith wrote you a song back then, Dream On if you think all of todays ways are better in handling the situations mentioned. And one more note [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]you will get your wish, we all are gonna die.

yeah while we are at it why dont we just put people with mental handicaps in barns and lock them away, maybe we can have segregation again. Lets reinstate the poll tax, lets have smoking areas in our high schools, maybe we can get cocaine back in coca cola as well...

lets make our kids go to 50 year old schools, oh wait we already do.

Need help pulling that cob out of your butt, or is it implanted permanetly?
Look at history and see if we haven't pretty much relived it, the past few years, wars and gas shortages, etc etc.
Times have changed in some ways and in some ways, we have just repeated them with a different style and name.

Open your eyes, instead of impeeding progress try and do things to help. So many people talk of whats good for children and such, yet they do everything they can to stop people from moving out of this closed minded world they live in.

by the way I heard they're a witch up on duncan gap, gather the town folks and we can tie her hands and toss her in a lake.

Like your doing yourself? Ok.

If you want things to change you show how to make change and how to make it work.

You don't just get a forum, and say change is what is needed, with no idea of how to make it work.

Were not talking about a school issue here. Were talking about changes as in culture changes. The times have changed.

As i said.
If you have something up your butt. Pull it out. But the topic deals more with cultural changes over the years. And cultural views of what now is acceptable and what isn't, because of the changes.