Pikie's Blog

    With all the things happening in schools today, from teachers being accused of misconduct to teens bringing weapons to school it's interesting to see how these acts would have been treated in 1957.  So, to those of us old enough to remember and to those wha are too young to know how it was back then---read on.........    

   See What 50 Years Will Do

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

  1957 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's  rifle, goes to
  his car and gets his rifle 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.

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 Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

 1957  - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
 best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

 2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark.
 Charges them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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 Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

 1957 -  Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal.
 Jeffrey THEN sits still in class.

 2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie.
 School gets  extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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

 1957 - 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. 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.

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 Scenario: Mark gets a headache'
 and takes some headache medicine to school.

 1957 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking
 dock.

 2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations.
 Car searched for drugs and weapons.

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 Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

 1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

 2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state political parties. 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.

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 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.
 
1957 - Ants die.

 2007 - BATF, Homeland Security and FBI are 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.

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 Scenario: Johnny falls while  running during recess and scrapes his
 knee.  He is found crying by his teacher, Miss Mary.
 Miss Mary then hugs Johnny to comfort him.

 1957 -  In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on  playing.

 2007 - Miss Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her
 job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

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