{"id":480,"date":"2008-07-23T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/23\/school-1957-vs-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:16:54","slug":"school-1957-vs-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/school-1957-vs-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/font><\/u><\/i><\/b>
Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u><\/b>:
\n <\/span><\/font><\/b> <\/span><\/font><\/b>Jack
\n goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot
\n with shotgun in gun rack.<\/span><\/font><\/b>
1957
\n –<\/span><\/font><\/b> Vice Principal comes over, looks at
\n Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show
\n Jack.
2007 –<\/span><\/b>
\n School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail
\n and never sees his truck or gun again. Counsellors called in for
\n traumatized students and teachers.  <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u>:  Johnny and Mark get
\n into a fistfight after school.<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/span><\/font>
1957 –<\/span><\/b> Crowd gathers.
\n Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 –<\/span><\/b> Police
\n called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them
\n with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
\n  <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u><\/b>:
\n  Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other
\n students.<\/span><\/font><\/b>
1957
\n –<\/span><\/font><\/b> Jeffrey sent to office and given a
\n good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and
\n does not disrupt class again.
2007 –<\/span><\/b> Jeffrey given huge
\n doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets
\n extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
\n  <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u>:  Billy breaks a window
\n in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his
\n belt.<\/span><\/font>
1957 –<\/b> Billy is more careful next
\n time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful
\n businessman.
2007
\n –<\/span><\/b> Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse.  Billy
\n removed to foster care and joins a gang.  State psychologist
\n tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and
\n their dad goes to prison.  Billy’s mom has affair with
\n psychologist.  <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u>:  Mark gets a headache
\n and takes some aspirin to school<\/span><\/font>.
1957 –<\/b> Mark
\n shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 –<\/span><\/b> Police called,
\n Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for
\n drugs and weapons.  <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u>:
\n  Pedro fails high school English.<\/span><\/font>
1957 –<\/b>
\n Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to
\n college.
2007 –<\/span><\/b>
\n Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear
\n nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for
\n graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against
\n state school system and Pedro’s English teacher.  English
\n banned from core curriculum.  Pedro given diploma anyway but
\n ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
\n  <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u>:  Johnny takes apart
\n leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model
\n airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant
\n bed.<\/span><\/font>
1957 –<\/b> Ants die.
2007 –<\/span><\/b> ATF, Homeland
\n Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with  domestic
\n terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home,
\n computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list
\n and is never allowed to fly again. <\/p>\n

Scenario<\/span><\/font><\/u>:  Johnny falls while
\n running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by
\n his teacher, Mary.  Mary hugs him to comfort
\n him.<\/span><\/font>
1957 –<\/b> In a short time, Johnny feels
\n better and goes on playing.
2007 –<\/span><\/b> Mary is accused of
\n being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in
\n State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of
\n therapy<\/span><\/font>.<\/span><\/font>
\n <\/span><\/font>
<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scenario:  Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.2007 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}