SCHOOL 1967 vs. 2007

[Parkbandit]

Just got this in the email and thought it was funny.




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 ca r 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 cal led. 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.

[Sean of the Thread]

Sickening isn't it.

[Some Rogue]

Guess I'll have to take your word for it...I wasn't alive in 67. :rofl:

Though that could mostly go for 77 or 87 too heh.

[Gan]

Goes for '87. I can vouch for that.

[Celephais]

Hell it goes for '97

[TheEschaton]

Hell, it goes for '97, when I was in high school too. It was '99, with Columbine (my senior year of high school) where everything changed for the insane.

[Makkah]

I dunno about '97...


Edit: I was in high school from 96-00. I remember shit getting really wishy-washy before then.

[Nieninque]

So how would PB know about school in 67 anyway? He been having chats with his grandchildren?

[Sthrockmorton]

High school from 99-2003. I think we had about 6 bomb-threats in that time. I had 3 my 8th grade year (Spring of '99, right after Columbine). I don't know first hand how things were before then, but life got put on lock-down drastically after that event.
EX. School would go on lockdown once a month for drug dog runs (I know this never happened before 99).

And I went to high-school in Southern Indiana, surrounded by corn fields, with a VERY low crime rate.

[Warriorbird]

93-97

BIG change.

[Makkah]

High school from 99-2003. I think we had about 6 bomb-threats in that time. I had 3 my 8th grade year (Spring of '99, right after Columbine). I don't know first hand how things were before then, but life got put on lock-down drastically after that event.
EX. School would go on lockdown once a month for drug dog runs (I know this never happened before 99).

And I went to high-school in Southern Indiana, surrounded by corn fields, with a VERY low crime rate.

Sounds exactly what I went through in my time. At least 2 bomb-threats a year with 2 or 3 drug-dog searches a year.
We were also the only public school in the city/county (to my knowledge) to have an established dress-code (khaki/navy pants/skirts with long-sleeve, buttondowns +tie in the winter) due to "gang activity." This was administered in... I want to say 93?

Most ironic part about it, gang activity went from practically non-existant in 94 to moderate in 2000 (complete with a drive-by out front in early 2000).

[TheEschaton]

Eh, we had intermitent drug searches, but they were always done by the Dean, and not the police, and he only searched people he thought was suspicious. Which I find hilarious.

-TheE-

[Sean]

Yea I dunno about 97 in suburbia. I was in HS from 96-00 and if someone pulled with with a gun rack and a shotgun there would have been serious problems. Then again there isn't much hunting in suburbia.

[Atlanteax]

The Changed occured during the 90s.

Same BS was going on when I was in High School in early 90s.

[Latrinsorm]

Yeah, times were so great in 1967...

..so long as you were straight, white, and didn't mind that whole "Vietnam" thing, anyway.

[Warriorbird]

When I pretty much write you off as a total stooge for Bush you come back with a hilarious post like that. Nice job, Latrin.

[Celephais]

The gun rack (A gun rack!? I don't even own A gun, let alone enough to facilitate the need for an entire rack!) would have been pretty iffy, I'm pretty sure a kid at my school brought a gun in his car (had been used for hunting) and there was a hubbub, but no lockdown or anything.. cops got called, sorted thigs out, kid got to keep his gun (think he just had to bring it home) might have gotten a 2 day suspension (I'm vague on that...).

Just about everything else on there though... would fly fine.

[Atlanteax]

Yeah, times were so great in 1967...

..so long as you were straight, white, and didn't mind that whole "Vietnam" thing, anyway.

Just goes to show what letting Minorities have rights have gotten us

[Makkah]

Just goes to show what letting Minorities have rights have gotten us

Years of oppression tends to do that...

[Amber]

My high school actually had a trap team up till '99. Kids could leave their guns in their cars or lockers on days there was practice or a shoot.

[Clove]

Yeah, times were so great in 1967...

..so long as you were straight, white, and didn't mind that whole "Vietnam" thing, anyway.

Daniel????

[Makkah]

Could you explain "trap"? Seeing as how that's become a fairly trendy and popular word for "ghetto" in the past 10 years or so, your post struck me as really funny.

[Celephais]

Could you explain "trap"? Seeing as how that's become a fairly trendy and popular word for "ghetto" in the past 10 years or so, your post struck me as really funny.
Trapshooting... SKEET SKEET!!

[Warriorbird]

http://photo.gangus.com/d/26788-2/ackbar.jpg

[Sean of the Thread]

Could you explain "trap"? Seeing as how that's become a fairly trendy and popular word for "ghetto" in the past 10 years or so, your post struck me as really funny.

SKEET SHOOTING AKA TRAP!

[TheEschaton]

The gun rack thing wouldn't of been a problem for my school. Hell, we got off from school on the first day of hunting season.

Upstate NY FTW.

[Sean]

I'm not sure being a hick is ever FTW. Especially when you're a minority hick.

[Sthrockmorton]

We shot 12 & 20's in my agriculture class...
I think that went for 8th and 9th grade

[Parkbandit]

The gun rack thing wouldn't of been a problem for my school. Hell, we got off from school on the first day of hunting season.

Upstate NY FTW.


Indeed. First day of deer and turkey season were days off for the whole school.

[Makkah]

Yea... that's beyond redneck.

[Parkbandit]

Yea... that's beyond redneck.

Racist

[Makkah]

Gladly.

[Skeeter]

Celephais I appreciate your Wayne's world reference.

Until 5th grade I went to a school so far out in the sticks that people actually drove their tractors to school on FFA day. Gun racks with guns were normal in the school parking lot.

When I changed schools things were obviously much different. So I suppose it depends on where you live.

I graduated in 93.

[Celephais]

Celephais I appreciate your Wayne's world reference.
I throw them out there whenever I can, they're words to live by (I threw out the sparkling white quote the other day but I don't think anyone picked up on it).

I was also quite disappointed with everyone else's reference to skeet shooting the entire lack of "SKEET SKEET!". Just this weekend two of my friends and I, one of which had gone "Traping" with me in my backyard, said to the other that he wondered if the word "PULL" had been replaced by "SKEET SKEET!", to which the underprivledged friend said "I don't believe the type of people who go skeet shooting are so enlightened to the reference, and those who are enlightened don't go skeet shooting", to which the privledge friend replied, "We are such a cross-section", gesturing at he and I.

[Tsa`ah]

Celephais I appreciate your Wayne's world reference.

Until 5th grade I went to a school so far out in the sticks that people actually drove their tractors to school on FFA day. Gun racks with guns were normal in the school parking lot.

When I changed schools things were obviously much different. So I suppose it depends on where you live.

I graduated in 93.

Not much different here. You did have to remove your gun from the rack and for safety reasons, turn in your ammo or gun at the office.

My freshman year marked the first year that the school didn't cordon off a smoking section for students in the school.

It wasn't unusual for students to take on a "gun cabinet" project in shop.

Absences marking the first day of any hunting season were excused so long as a parent signed the waiver and you had a permit for whatever was in season.

Anyone who lived on a functioning farm was excused for a week during harvest and planting.

I also went to a 5A highschool where locker searches, canine inspections, metal detectors, school security, frequent fire alarms and the occasional bomb threats were the norm.

The decline of common sense in education began in the 80s when it was common place to start doping kids with "hyperactivity". Corporal punishment was already out the door by the time I got out of grade school. In fact I was the last kid at Edison GS to get the paddle.

Columbine certainly augmented retarded knee jerk reactions, but they were already in the pipe during the end of the 80s depending on the size of the school you attended.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I will never forget sometime at the end of my Freshman year of highschool our school went into lock-down because "a man with a rifle was hiding in the woods behind the school."

Turns out it was a state-sent Surveyor using the woods as a shortcut instead of walking twice as long along the road with blind curves, and he was carrying a case with equipment.

We were in lockdown the ENTIRE day.

The school's are really fucked up. I'm all for not turning a blind eye to obvious problems but some of the shit they tell you was just dumb. Once we had to sit through a sexual harassment and personal assault presentation and the whole thing was, "Just say no firmly and then call for help. But don't fight back!"

Yeah, right. Some asshole is about to knock out your front teeth and break your nose and you're supposed to firmly tell him No and then call out for help. Or get expelled. HAHAHA yeah right. -_- I showed my father the pamphlet they sent home and he was just like "What the fuck is this shit? This is exactly what you need to NEVER do."

Edit: and yes I am aware this thread has been dead over a week. I just couldn't help myself though.