What do you think of this? I got it in an email. I love it.?
HIGH SCHOOL -- 1958 vs. 2008
Scenario 1:Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the schoolparking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1958 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to hiscar and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jailand never sees his truck or gun again.
Counselors called in fortraumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1958 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end upbuddies.
2008 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnnyand Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled eventhough Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1958 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddlingby the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does notdisrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. Heis then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the statebecause Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dadgives him a whipping with his belt.
1958 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to collegeand becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed tofoster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy'ssister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes toprison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5:Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1958 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smokingdock.
2008 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drugviolations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:Pedro fails high school English.
1958 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appearnationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement forgraduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the stateschool system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned fromcore curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowinglawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, putsthem in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
1958 - Ants die.
2008 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny ischarged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- andall siblings are removed from their home and all computers areconfiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is neverallowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He isfound crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1958 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. Shefaces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy .
Public Comments
1. I got this last week and thought it was great.See what happens when the dems take over education lol
2. Yes, life used to be simple. It was better that way.
3. lol funny:)
4. Very funny. And sad also. Shows how far we have traveled. I just don't know whether we went forward for backward. I am tending to think more backward.
Thank you for sharing.
5. This is hilarious. I wish I was alive in 1958.
6. it's so true. it's funny and yet sad. thanks for sharing this!
7. That's the world that I grew up in and I miss it.
8. It didn't happen like that in 1958,
and it isn't happening that way now 2008.
The 1958 stories are the equivalent of your father telling you about walking to school 5 miles through snow up-hill, both ways.
The 2008 stories are out of context FUD promulgated by talk radio.
edit:
I have to come back and comment further on this email, because it is so far off the mark.
I received my first rifle, a single shot .22, as a Christmas gift from my Dad in 1956, the year I turned 8. I have owned one or more rifles continuously since then.
At the time, we lived in rural Douglas County, Oregon. Literally everyone hunted. The purpose of the rifle was to give me a gun which I could learn to shoot accurately and safely, so that I could hunt too, and put meat on the table like every other able-bodied person, including my mother and grandmother.
We had a pick-up with a gun rack and we used it -- when we went hunting. The idea of getting a few quail on the way to school, and then leaving the quail and the gun in the gun rack while you go on to school is loony. The quail would probably rot in the cab and the gun could be stolen (even in rural America in the 50's).
An important lesson in firearm safety is to keep control of the gun. Guns are tools and can be used safely, but the idea of students and teachers showing them off to each other in the school parking lot is like a phallic fantasy from some B movie. The idea probably comes from someone who has no experience hunting, or whose experience with hunting is limited to a guided trip somewhere.
9. Having lived through and/or witnessed similar scenarios throughout my 57 years in this country, all I can say is, it's all too true.
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We're out to stop nonsense like that.
Someone is 'paying attention' through very distorted glasses.
Those scenarios, while being exaggerations, do a remarkable job of illustrating exactly what liberals have succeeded in incrementally doing to this country.
10. The newer system isn't perfect, but in some ways it's much better than the old one. My Mother, who was a little kid in 1958 remembers the parents of her friends not letting her come over for parties because her parents were divorced. As if it was her fault. And these days kids who are being abused aren't ignored and something is done about it. Yes, a lot of times the people in authority go too far. But it's because they're trying to protect people that were going unprotected before.
11. Well it goes to show you how diverce things are between 58 and 08. Back then things were seemingly Innocent and now plane old corrupted.
12. Life was simpler and a lot more relaxed back then. People respected each other. People respected the government because the government was much more respectable.
Everybody knew their neighbors, and a neighborhood was often closer than some families are now.
People got married BEFORE they had children. Married couples tended to stay married.
Most men had jobs, while most women were home makers.
Drugs were available, but it was not respectable to use them. Few people did.
Over the past 72 years, I have seen the destruction of the family, the dollar shrinking down 80 or 90 per cent, education going down the toilet, soaring crime rates. I still love this country, but we need to return to some of the values of the 1950s.
Has anybody ever watched some of the sitcoms from the fifties?
They were idealized, of course, but not so terribly unrealistic as young people think.
