School in 1977 vs 2007
 

SCHOOL 1977 vs 2007


Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1977 - 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 or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1977 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1977 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1977 - 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 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. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1977 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1977 - 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 given 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.
1977 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates 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.
1977 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - 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.

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That was awesome!! :biggrin:

And so true.

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Wow, so true!

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Nice... Its crazy to think about buts its true...

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Haha thats good stuff.

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that is right on

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it is pretty right on...even though most of you were never in school in 1977!

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I wasn't even born :)

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Why cant we go back to when days were like that...

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Because there is a bunch of sisy f*ks that feel the need to protect you from everything. And people beging to politicaly correct to express them selves.

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Well said. Kids are too protected these days, we're building a culture of pansies. There's too much crying and whining. I can't imagine what it will be like when and if I have kids.

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In the 70s there were no Emo kids... We grew them.

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and that was almost as bad of an idea as Chia Pets.

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They weren't quite that good. A brand new Corvette had 190 horsepower, the Mustang Cobra II had about 165 horsepower. The Dodge Omni was the preferred economy car. People had bell bottoms that covered their shoes. The pet rock was actually a phenomenon. But the first Star Wars came out, which was cool. I still remember standing in line for it at the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth.

Oh, and people still got beat up and shootings occured, but you only heard about the local ones, not every national tragedy that takes place. Remember, we only had three channels back then. :lol:

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I wish i was sexually abused by a GIRL teacher. That would be pretty nice.
Your old. lol

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Any idea when that theater closed? They finally built a nice one near Canal Park, before that it was just the dumpy ones in/near Hermantown.

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I actually get in this topic of conversation all the time it seems. And I'm in full agreement wish society went back to the old ways. Keep the new technology, but wish society still had some sort of rememberance of traditions.

Hell My Ex-Wife is a great example of whats wrong with society.

1)waits 1 year to file for divorce that way she can get house / spousal maintaince. Files a Domestic Disturbance charge against me, even though I was working 16hrs a day and never went home. Just so she could move her things out with out incidence and find the Tape I had of her beating on me. - Result,I had to leave the house with no money, no car, and no place to go for 5 days, the charges get dismissed,due to no evidence, and she had to leave the house and got nothing. But nothing happens to her

2)She moves in with Chad(the real father of Kiley, the baby girl who she said was mine, hence the marriage), and then leaves him, for another man who has more money, but before she leaves she files assualt with a deadly weapon against Chad(hoping this would accomplish 2 things, 1 get chad out so she can move in peace 2 go on his record so he can't go after custody of Kiley). He spends 2 days in jail, she moves her things out along with some of his stuff as well as takes his Mazda 6. Charges dropped/dismissed no evidence and again nothing happened to her

3)The boyfriend she moved in with, she then leaves for his best friend. But before she leaves she files theft charges against him, because he wouldn't let her take anything he'd bought for her. He went to jail for a day and now is no longer allowed to see his 2 kids (I know this cause he contacted me personally to see if there was anything he could do to help me with my divorce).

She embodies everything that is wrong with society IMO. And just like this topic, I don't even know if I ever will get married again let alone have kids. And honestly that's all I ever wanted in life was a family.

Think about our grand-parents upbringing, then our parents, and then ours, Look at how much society has changed, I can't even imagine what it'll be like for our kids when they get to be our age. But then again I know my mother has been saying that exact thing for some time now and so did my grandmother. Personally I think society is on a huge downward spiral and won't stop till finally we've had enough of all the B.S. There will probably be another civil war unless by then they've outlawed all guns.

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Wow...yup, she is what is wrong with society.

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^wow.

I just want these days to be like the movie "dazed and confused".

What do you think will have to happen in order for our "generation" to change into a better place? I dont see anything getting different really.. But then again, in thirty years, our kids may say the same thing. "mom, why cant life go back to how it was in 2007?" Or maybe our parents in the 70's said to there parents, why cant life be like it was back in the 50's? and so on...

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Overall I'd still take life now than how things were in the past. Look at all the cool stuff we get :)