Posted on 02/25/2009 12:38:22 PM PST by Signalman
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 lockdown, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and 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.
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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.
My high-school teacher showed our class a Japanese rifle that he'd brought back from WWII (Type 99 Arisaka--with intact Mum). It had misfired at point-blank range and he told us how he emptied his Thompson magazine into its bearer. He also had a Japanese hand grenade (defused). I can't imagine what trauma that was for us, both seeing a gun (even though it was a crappy one) and hearing that story!
Many kids didn't believe his stories at the time. Years later, it turned out that paperwork had been lost and he actually had earned medals for these actions.
I also like to point out that my father required his students to take their guns to school--on the bus. He was the Rifle Team coach. Students would also take in their guns to work on in shop class.
I posted something very similar at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180336/posts?page=37#37
You got that right.
Gotta get rid of school psychologists; social workers; counsellors; school resource officers; wimpy, namby pamby school officials who can’t make a rational decision regarding their students and have to dial 911, hysterical women teachers who are afraid of boys — the list goes on forever.
The good thing about this economic downturn is maybe they’ll all be fired. If that happens, perhaps the public will realize they’re better off without them.
Liar..........: )
I very much hope you still have that gun..........
The girls don’t become sex offenders, NO, in our society today, they actually become role models and celebs. The boy’s lives are ruined. The girls create popular MySpace pages, and become porn starlets when they turn 18...they create a pornography Internet empire, become gazillionairs, and the poor boys become sex addicts who can’t hold jobs.
Unfortunately, my father sold it in 1976. :-(
I also like to point out that my father required his students to take their guns to school—on the bus. He was the Rifle Team coach. Students would also take in their guns to work on in shop class.
When I was in Jr. High one of the kids made a nice wood case for his dad’s Smith & Wesson. Brought it to school to fit the case. He was complimented on making a nice gift for someone else rather than something for himself. Hadn’t thought about that until I read your reply.
It sickens me that a national campaign hasn’t been aired to highlight such things. I do my part, but I just don’t have the reach of the NRA or GOP.
1967: Many of the teacher are veterans of WW2 or Korea and can recall boarding troop ships and the feeling of being shot at.
2009: Many of the teachers are Vietnam war protesters and can recall going to college and the feeling of their first hit of acid.
I gave it to the City of Anaheim, CA...Chief of Police. He was a friend of my dad's....but I wish I had never done it.
FRegards,
This sure wasn’t high school in the New York City area circa 1967...
Good article!
Your first example of 1978/2007 rang my bell as almost the same thing actually happened to me, only it was in 1957.
A high school junior, I was invited to go bird hunting (dove season) after school on a friends family farm. Several other students as well as one of the teachers had also been invited.
I did not have a car, so during the lunch break I went to the high school principal’s office and asked him if I could borrow his car to go home and get my shotgun and shells, and store them in the trunk of his car until school was out.
He said ok, and handed me his keys. The only comment he made was, “Don’t forget to return my keys after school. I don’t have another set.”
I was thinking the same thing.
I was doing a search on the U.S. being in 30th place from 24th place against the other 20 industrialized countries and stumbled upon this article.
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