Post #312,025
7/30/09 10:20:13 AM
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HIGH SCHOOL -- 1955 vs. 2009
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1955 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his new shotgun to show Jack.
2009 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school..
1955 - Crowd gathers.. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2009 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark.. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1955 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again..
2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1955 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school..
1955 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2009 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1955 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2009 - 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 the state school system and Pedro's English teacher . English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed...
1955 - Ants die.
2009 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1955 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2009 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy
I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
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Post #312,028
7/30/09 10:25:37 AM
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Sad...
but there is a HUGE glimmer of truth in those.
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Post #312,031
7/30/09 10:44:44 AM
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My thought exactly
funny in a very sad sort of way.
Goodbye freedom. Hello, mom!
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Post #312,038
7/30/09 11:34:03 AM
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one of those...
Is the reason I no longer volunteer on outings for the Kids at School or Church.
We had to many "false accusations" or people Jumping to conclusions about intent.
Even established well known Men around her have been put in jail on falsehoods.
This whole PANIC thing from 9/11 and perpetuated by the DHS/ATF/Gov't police forces in general is making these things die.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters are very much dieing because of this.
Sorry to take the fun out of this.
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Post #312,033
7/30/09 11:11:48 AM
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#5
My first 2 years of high school, 80-82, was in McHenry, Illinois. If your parents signed a permission slip your ID had something on it that let you use the smoking area. In the winter the heater was so hot we'd often wear shorts(with snowpants to/from school).
In contrast - my last 2 years were in Portland, Texas. They had security guards and all the restrooms were locked except for the pair by the main office. In spite of the heat, I got in trouble for wearing shorts on my first day (as well as for having a mustache).
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Post #312,036
7/30/09 11:29:16 AM
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Re: #5
My first 2 years of high school, 80-82, was in McHenry, Illinois. If your parents signed a permission slip your ID had something on it that let you use the smoking area.
My high school was officially no smoking. But the bathrooms always smelled like smoke and it was a running joke that the principle ran the smoking students out because he wanted some privacy when he smoked.
Jay
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Post #312,037
7/30/09 11:30:39 AM
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we had a smoking club, I refused to join
hung out with my buds while an assistant pricipal would skulk on the roof with binoculars trying to catch us
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Post #312,040
7/30/09 11:48:20 AM
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My highschool
was a 2 class alternative school.
My teacher smoked, and took the whole class out on smoke breaks every 45 minutes.
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Post #312,053
7/30/09 1:32:26 PM
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Explains... MUCH!
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Post #312,100
7/31/09 9:36:17 AM
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Memoriiiieeesssssss
Nah, not for you.
But I was contacted by an old classmate from that school.
She, and another friend, lived with me for a while. Ahh, wild times.
They ended up getting married, and divorced about 2 years ago.
They both kicked off a facebook request to me within minutes of each other. It was a race!
3 weeks of email and phone tag, I'll be visiting her this weekend. Was doing the same to the ex-husband, but he had some very odd gaps in his email timing.
Turned out he was in jail for a while, she sent him there. Nothing violent, he just doesn't believe in paying child support, and then does silly crap like pull flowers from the yard he no longer owns.
Ahh, ain't alcohol grand?
Anyway, I expect there will be a bit of memory lane time. I should record the conversation (with permission of course). I've done that with an old girlfriend. It's amazing what you end up recording.
That book might pop out of me yet.
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Post #312,073
7/30/09 8:17:40 PM
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We need a 1982 version.
Lessee...
Scenario 1: Principal confiscates gun. At the end of the day, he returns it and asks Jack to not bring it to school. Jack agrees and drops gun off at home before school the next time he goes early morning quail hunting.
Scenario 2: Crowd gathers, teachers descend. Mark and Johnny both get detentions, probably just as the fight concludes.
Scenario 3: ... (not sure how to script that one...)
Scenario 4: Billy has to forfeit his pocket money until the window is more-or-less paid for. Billy grows up normal learning that money can fix things, but sometimes that means going without.
Scenario 5: Mark takes his aspirin with his lunch milk. Fellow students say he shouldn't show the teacher, but it would probably be alright. One of the friendlier teacher casually quizzes him that it's really only aspirin.
Scenario 6: ... (again, not sure how to script this one...)
Scenario 7: ... well, ants still die, but the problem I have scripting this one is that the firecracker laws changed so much in Au in the '70s.
Scenario 8: The 1955 scenario would probably still apply here. :-)
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #312,075
7/30/09 8:27:25 PM
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3 & 6
3: Jeffrey spends more time in detention than he does in class. The principal keeps his fingers crossed that Jeffrey doesn't break anything important before his 18th birthday, when he officially becomes someone else's problem.
6: Pedro goes to summer school, and gets a job as a dishwasher at night. By the fall, he's got enough money saved up to pay a coyote to bring his parents up. All three of them get jobs at the slaughterhouse. Pedro never finishes school.
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Drew
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