School: 1967 vs 2007

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Found this on another forum, don't know if it's been posted here or not but oh well, I thought it was good.




Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.

1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.

2007 - School goes into lock down, and FBI is called. Jack is 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 fistfight after school.

1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail; nobody is arrested; nobody is
expelled.

2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested
and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.


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

1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the
principal. He returns to class, sits still, and does not disrupt class again.

2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with ADD and given huge doses of ritalin.
Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a learning disability.


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

1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is placed in
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.

1967 - Mark shares aspirin with principal out on the smoking dock.

2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1967 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2007 - 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 is given a 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.

1967 - Ants die.

2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security, and FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI
investigates parents; siblings are 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, Heather. Heather hugs him to comfort him.

1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2007 - Heather is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in state prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy.

There is so much that I dont know that I dont know how much there is that I dont know
 
what the OP said is true. Im not sure if this is supposed to be a US or Uk school, but either way this country is not far behind the usa in its stupidness of rules.

i think children need o be smacked round the head in order to stfu. problem is nowadays childrens parents wernt disciplined at school and therefore their kids are even worse.
At a school near me a kid wass teasing another kid, taking the rip out of his name, the house were he lived, teased him cos his dad left, so this other kid called the other one a ****** cos he was black and now the originally abused kid has to go to court, rediculus!

All a kid has to do is cry to their parents now and a male school teacher is automatically a peado
 
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My mother in law helps out with some kids stuff at a church, but they're now not allowed to touch the kids even if they hurt themselves in case it gets called abuse.....and that's at a church!

I remember sitting in class at school and having a teacher throw a box of chalks at me for not paying attention. They days he'd be carted off.....then it was just "wtf, oh, sorry sir!" and get on with it.....
 
I read that, and laughed - but as the truth rings home, I feel sorry for the country I live in.

Madeleine's case shows what a soft bunch of drama queens the British people have become.
 
CF93 said:
My mother in law helps out with some kids stuff at a church, but they're now not allowed to touch the kids even if they hurt themselves in case it gets called abuse.....and that's at a church!
Well, with the church being one of the biggest perpetrators of child abuse, its hardly surprising is it :p
 
I'm one of the rare people on here that attended school in 67 and even though the above is American virtually everything is true.

I left High School in 74 and I can honestly say that I never heard (or heard of) one pupil arguing with a teacher.
If a teacher said jump you didn't even ask "How high?".
Funnily enough we were talking about this at work this morning and we all remember teachers smoking in class. Its was also quite astonishing how the cane would sort out all these pupils with new age made up conditions.
I could just imagine me saying to my maths teacher "Can't do that sir I've got ADD".
He would have smashed my head into a glass window pane - again :eek: (Yes he did).
 
That last one is so true.

There was a report on the radio this morning saying that more and more adults are reluctant to work with kids because they are worried about being labled as a peado. Obviously its mostly men, but a lot of women are worried too.

It's getting to the point where if you look at a kid, your a peado.
Don't get me wrong, people who abuse kids sexually should be shot, but this goes to show that its far too easy to acuse people of something they havn't done.

You could actually liken this to a modern day witch hunt.
 
dmpoole said:
He would have smashed my head into a glass window pane - again :eek: (Yes he did).

That's taking discipline a bit far, no? :confused: Surely he could have just got out his cane and hit you with it a bit.
 
I was regularly smacked across the knuckles with a 1/2m stick by my physics teacher and I tell you what, he was the best teacher I've ever had.

I remember my youngest brother saying that a teacher in our school was suspended because he called one of his pupils a stupid idiot.

Also my brother in the Royal Irish said that it was illegal for the officers to shout abuse to the soldiers when they were training;

Everything is being censored, soon enough it's going to be Equalibrium in real life.
 
SGCWill said:
Also my brother in the Royal Irish said that it was illegal for the officers to shout abuse to the soldiers when they were training;

I'm now re-imagining Gunnery Sgt. Hartman's speeches without the insults and I don't think it improves the film any. "Were you born a fat, slimy, scumbag puke pieca' **** Private Pyle, or did you have to work on it?" loses something as "Were you born Private Pyle, or did you have to work on it?". ;)
 
OMG LOL THIS IS SO TRUE.

Well apart from this stuf..

Magic_x_uk said:
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.

How many school kids in 1967 had cars? Not many. Do we honestly think the ability to bring a Shotgun to school is from the 'good old days'?

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.

1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail; nobody is arrested; nobody is
expelled.

I see. And fistfights are acceptable, yay!

2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested
and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.

A SWAT team for a playground fight? Yup, ok.




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

2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.

Yes, right, whatever.


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

1967 - Ants die.

2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security, and FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI
investigates parents; siblings are removed from home; computers confiscated. Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Again, more rubbish.

It's all made up, over the top, exagerated rubbish for the purposes of comedy. And yes, its funny.

So laugh it, rather than getting suckered into thinking its all true becuase it isn't.
 
Or a more appropriate one for our school...

1967: Luke has some left over dinner money/pocket money.. he buys some sweets, his mother finds out hes been eating sweets before dinner, hes made to eat all his veg and some besides

2007: Luke has some left over dinner money/pocket money.. he buys a 10 draw and smokes it on school property, teachers and police know but cant do anything because they don't have any definitive proof. Luke fails school. Has McDonald's for dinner cos hes got the munchies.

lol. made up on the spot

but seriously, that post (to my knowledge of 1967) is so true (proverbially!). what a shame its turned about like this

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alec
 
Fraggr said:
That's taking discipline a bit far, no? :confused: Surely he could have just got out his cane and hit you with it a bit.

This was about 1973, all boys school, all male teachers - discipline was hard but obviously smashing a window with my head went a bit far.
 
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