Posted on 08/23/2012 3:16:04 PM PDT by xp38
From Australia but it translates well to the US. Uni is short for university. Ute is a pickup truck.
Scenario : Jack goes rabbit shooting before school, pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his rifle & chats with Jack about guns.
2011 - School goes into lock down, Tactical Response called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his ute or gun again.. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2011 - Police called, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programs for 3 months. School board hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programs
Scenario: Robbie won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.
1957 - Robbie sent to office and given 6 of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2011 - Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. Robbie's parents get fortnightly disability payments and School gets extra funding from state because Robbie has a disability.
Scenario : Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's house and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to Uni, and becomes a successful businessman.
2011 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison.
Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with.
2011 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario : Jamal fails high school English.
1957 - Jamal stays after school & learns, passes English and goes to Uni.
2011 - Jamal's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. AFRE files class action lawsuit against state school system and Jamal's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Jamal given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from Cracker night, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a bullant nest.
1957 - Ants die.
2011 - Tactical Response , Federal Police & Anti-terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, Federal Police investigate 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.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2011 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy..
Wow that must have been hard to see.
There were kids in my school that were a little off kilter, and left to their own devices might have have thought about being more violent. I remember one guy in particular who talked about a raccoon he shot out of a tree and how much he liked the sound of the bones crunching.
But, I think that peer/community standards and pressure and an understanding of what they would face from school or their parents if they went too far kept them in line.
Johnny falls off his bicycle and breaks his arm.
1957 - Johnny is taken to the hospital where his arm is x-rayed, set and placed in a cast. 6 weeks later, cast is removed and life goes on.
2011 - After the hospital visit, Johnny's parents take him to a lawyer who initiates a lawsuit against Schwinn claiming that bicycles are dangerous unstable vehicles and should not be marketed to children. Schwinn settles out of court for an outrageous sum of money. Congress passes a bill outlawing 2-wheeled vehicles for anyone under the age of 18.
There’s a really big site called “Say No To Psychiatry,” with a big section devoted just to abuses in education.
Psychiatry is a field that needs to see a psychiatrist. These people are so hostile.
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