30 years ago compared to today.

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Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1976 - 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.
1976 - 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.
1976 - 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.


Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1976 - 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.
1976 - 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.
1976 - 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.
1976: 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.
1976 - 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.
1976 - 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.
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So true :(
Even in the last 10 years things have gone up **** creek and all soft and pansy like ive seen :(
 
Nickg said:
yea sounds about right.

overly nostalgic view of the past and sensationalistic present.
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Totally agree, which is just about the only thing really bad about now. The press are totally obsessed with sensationalist news and the public lap it up.
 
Oooh good old nostalgia isnt what it used to be :rolleyes:

Load of complete claptrap. Arrested for headache pills? It's made up rubbish by people living in the past.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Oooh good old nostalgia isnt what it used to be :rolleyes:

Load of complete claptrap. Arrested for headache pills? It's made up rubbish by people living in the past.
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Nope, it's not. You can no longer take your own Tylenol/Aspirin/Advil/etc in to schools. It has to be dispensed by the school nurse. If you bring your own and take it, you can be expelled for it. And if you give it to another student, you can be charged for it. As in police called and hauled away charged. Same goes with girls and PMS pills. They need to be turned in to the office/nurse by the parents and the student needs to have them dispensed by the nurse. End of.

How do I know this? My son goes to school. And we were warned of exactly this before registering him.
 
Nickg said:
yea sounds about right.

overly nostalgic view of the past and sensationalistic present.
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Not blaming you directly mate, but people should stop buying into all this ****. Don't buy tabloid newspapers, don't watch reality TV crap, don't buy into celebrities magazines and their " POSH'S WORLD EXCLUSIVE HAIRCUT DRAMA" fronts.

Whenever another personal injury solicitation or IVA ad comes on, change the channel. Whenever some Z minus celeb release a book, don't even glance at it.
When the media realise people can't be entertained with sensationalist crap and actually need something intelligent and well researched, perhaps then they might rethink things. Until then, we're all stuck with organisms on TV with 2 brain cells that functions 3min a day.
 
Mickey_D said:
Nope, it's not. You can no longer take your own Tylenol/Aspirin/Advil/etc in to schools. It has to be dispensed by the school nurse. If you bring your own and take it, you can be expelled for it. And if you give it to another student, you can be charged for it. As in police called and hauled away charged. Same goes with girls and PMS pills. They need to be turned in to the office/nurse by the parents and the student needs to have them dispensed by the nurse. End of.

How do I know this? My son goes to school. And we were warned of exactly this before registering him.
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Its been the same at my school ever since it opened 15 or so years back. Although some teacherrs are harsher then other when about the punishment you get if you bring and keep your own Drugs in your bag. If you do give them out you can be in heaps and heap of **** though.
We wernt even alowed to take cough lollies unless we had a note for them
 
regulus said:
Not blaming you directly mate, but people should stop buying into all this ****. Don't buy tabloid newspapers, don't watch reality TV crap, don't buy into celebrities magazines and their " POSH'S WORLD EXCLUSIVE HAIRCUT DRAMA" fronts.

Whenever another personal injury solicitation or IVA ad comes on, change the channel. Whenever some Z minus celeb release a book, don't even glance at it.
When the media realise people can't be entertained with sensationalist crap and actually need something intelligent and well researched, perhaps then they might rethink things. Until then, we're all stuck with organisms on TV with 2 brain cells that functions 3min a day.
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Quoted for the truth. Thanks regulus, my thoughts precisely.
 
All a Bit OTT Daily Mail Rubbish imo, as for the rules regarding the bringing in of aspirin etc into the school, mine (as do all of the schools in my area- both private and public) afaik dont have a problem with it. While parental permission is needed to actually be given the drugs, your free to bring them in.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Load of complete claptrap. Arrested for headache pills? It's made up rubbish by people living in the past.
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Ooh, I think Mickey owned you.

And just for the record my wife is a teacher and if she gave a headache pill out she could be arrested.
 
dmpoole said:
Ooh, I think Mickey owned you.

And just for the record my wife is a teacher and if she gave a headache pill out she could be arrested.
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It didnt say that, it said simply bringing them into school would result in being arrested and having your car searched for weapons.

Sensationalist rubbish.
 
Zip said:
So true :(
Even in the last 10 years things have gone up **** creek and all soft and pansy like ive seen :(
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It's not 'so true' in the slightest, it's a collection of made up statements with little or no presence in actual real life. What kind of warped view of the world do you have?

At least in 1976 is was a lot harder for BS like this to be peddled around as fact.
 
Johnny Girth said:
Isn't Ritalin basically amphetamine...doubt you'd be a zombie!
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Nope. Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a molecule or two different to methylphenidrate, better known as crystal meth.

And while you think that a molecule difference isn't much, consider that one molecule can mean the difference between the life sustaining substance called water (H2O) and rocket fuel (H2O2).

So no, ritalin is NOT meth....
 
[TW]Fox said:
It didnt say that, it said simply bringing them into school would result in being arrested and having your car searched for weapons.

Sensationalist rubbish.
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Actually, it said:

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
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Which is a reality. Any time you are suspected of drug violations, your car IS searched for drugs and weapons.

[EDIT] And yes, just the posession in public shools of ANY over the counter medications WILL get you arrested for drug violations now. We were told and warned of this upon registering our child in public school. We were explicitly told DO NOT, under any circumstances, let our child bring even the most insignificant thing that can in any way be considered a drug to school. That includes Aspirin, Tylenol, etc.
 
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