Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1973 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to
his
car and gets his own rifle to show Jack.

2006 - School goes into lockdown, 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 fist fight after school.

1973 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
best
friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - 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.

1973 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal.
Sits
still in class.

2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School
gets
extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives
him a
whipping.

1973 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
college,
and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster
care
and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist 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 headache medicine to
school.

1973 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking
dock.

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car
searched for drugs and weapons.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state progressive political party.
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 can't speak English.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July,
puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1973 - Ants die.

2006 - 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.

1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She
faces 3 years in State Prison.

oops ..mean 1973..yikes.

yeah i would love to be back in the decent days when there was not so
much BS

Sorry to say but I don't agree that all of those things were a GOOD
thing in 1973. I don't believe in "paddling" a child,especially not for
something that they can't control (like ADHD)and guns are never
something to joke about.I do agree that sometimes it goes overboard but
with all that has happened by NOT reacting well (deaths,lawsuits,ect.)
Can you blame them? I know that even though there ARE faults I couldn't
do much better.

That is soooo funny.... i love it... so very true.

The thing is, simple childhood "overactivity" is being incorrectly
diagnosed as "ADHD." When I was a kid, they didn't drug you in order to
get you to behave. The incidences of true ADHD (though not known at the
time by that name, of course) were rare.

And I certainly don't believe in paddling a child who has a true
disability, but I sure as hell would paddle a kid with a smart mouth who
simply didn't think he had to abide by the rules.

as a graduate of belleville, (lol, NOT bellvue), class of '76, i
say..jean tells it like it is/was

I love it, that is so true, I was in Vietnam in the first part of 73
though

I love it, that is so true, I was in Vietnam in the first part of 73
though

i dont know about any one else but every time i see that leg pic it
reminds me of an alfred hitchock bates hotel movie......gives me the
creeps. lol

The world is crazy these days.

Jean it wasn't that long ago that the first result (1973 version) was
still the case. I graduated in 1994 and those were still the rules; of
course I grew up in a small red-neck town. However I definately
remember taking apart firecrackers and filling up dixie cups full (and
once a big gulp cup) covering the top with plaster and blowing up
anthills- and that was at Boy Scout camp .

graduated not long after you jeanc. What a hoot!!!

yah thats about right. i once took a target rifle to school for show and
tell. wasent a problem... everybody lived too.

johnnie misbehaves in class
1973 johnnie gets an ass paddling, then another at home.
2006- johnnie is labeled ADD, GIVEN RITALIN, and his parents are
investigated for neglect when they refuse to give him his meds because
he walks around like a zombie.

You just reminded me why I got out of the school business the minute I
could. It was just a matter of time before I got sued, went tp prison,
or got killed!

why do you think parents are homeschooling thier kids?

with all the gangs, drugs, and violence, not sure id send a kid to
school UNARMED.