High School-1957 High School-2009

HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 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.


1957 - 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.


1957 - 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.


1957 - 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..


1957 - 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.

1957 - 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.


1957 - 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.

1957 - 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:

Wally falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Nancy. Nancy hugs him to comfort him.


1957 - In a short time, Wally feels better and goes on playing.


2009 - Nancy is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison... Wally undergoes 5 years of therapy.

1981 Eric goes to school with a buck 110 folding hunter knife on his belt daily, teachers occasionally use knife to cut various items in class. knife is used while in theater classes to build sets.

2009 James accidentally takes knife to school, if found he will be suspended for two weeks for a weapons violation. James keeps mouth shut re knife and keeps it hidden in his pocket.

AMEN!!!
How many 7th graders get to bring a live Rattler to school?

I did, at my teacher's request. And, since I was the oldest at this very rural school, I was the one assigned the task of carrying the 22 rifle for protection against the snakes.

I wonder what would happen if in 2010, 2 school kids were overheard (and reported) talkng about Flaming Hookers, Green weenies, tube flies, stimulators, Humpies and Predators (trout flies, of course).....
They might be kicked out of school for good.....

Old #art;
I graduated in 1957 from "Bedford Rural Agricultural High School". The only thing you missed was getting caught cooling a 6 pack in the creek out back of the shop class!! No lost time, just sore butts!!

As a teacher, the only thing you really got wrong was the expelled part.

If the school actually expelled them we would lose ADA ($$) and we can't have that. Had a student use the F-bomb continuously in class last year, both in casual conversation and as a desctriptor of my relationships with my wife and mother. he came back the next day, every time.

Scenario number 9

Malcolm and Ruby have just moved into a new town and are looking forward to starting the fall semester at their new high school. Their mom has a job cooking and doing the laundry in a household , but their dad, even though a talented woodworker and mechanic, can only find work in the fields on account of the color of his skin.

1957- The high school principle blocks the children's admission to the school while their fellow students hurl racial epithets.
Later that night, the family awakes to find a cross burning on their front lawn

2009- Dozens of classmates go out and buy new CDs and whole closets full of new clothes so that they they can be more like their new friends