What Liberalism has done to our soceity...

Subject: Re: HIGH SCHOOL 1957 vs. 2017 ! ! ! !
By today's standards none of us were supposed to ever make it.

HIGH-SCHOOL
1957 vs. 2017

Scenario 1:

Jack goes duck hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2017- 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 2:

Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2017 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled - even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3:

Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2017 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.


Scenario 4:

Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2017 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse, Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being spanked herself, and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.


Scenario 5:

Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2014 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario 6:

Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2017 - 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 the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.


Scenario 7:

Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2017 - ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The, FBI investigates his parents - and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.


Scenario 8:

Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957–In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2017- 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.


how stupid we have become!

It's interesting to me that some of us see the past and see what was better then and wish we had some of that back and others look back and only see what was worse. Some of us look back and see, for example, that in the 1950's divorce rates, single parent homes, births out of wedlock, and incarceration rates were lower for all races. We wish that those statistics could be revived, that the rampant absence of fathers could be addressed to return to two-parent homes, to stay married, to raise kids, especially boys, to be responsible providers. What's baffling, though, is that these wishes are deemed 'regressive' because critics can't (or won't) believe that people wishing for SOME things from the past are not wishing for ALL things from the past. For example, no one is proposing segregation, death trap cars with no seat belts, a 90% smoking rate from actors, homes without A/C or eliminating the internet, cell phones, or satellite TV.

The shotgun example from the OP is the best example of what has evaporated in our society in the last chunk of years. I graduated in the mid 80's. My Junior year we had an assembly specifically to address the NEW RULE about bringing your shotguns, rifles, pistols, etc on campus. While no one was bringing the weapons indoors anyway, there were approximately 100 weapons in the parking lot, in plain view, and in unlocked cars, and had been for 50 years, with exactly ZERO shootings. Why no shootings? Was it because there were no arguments, no fights? Of course not. It was because all of the kids had parents, almost always 2 of them, who taught morals, enforced rules at home, who dragged their kids to church (not a pitch for church, but for parents setting the rules and enforcing them) and who spanked their sons at home for getting spanked at school. There was a COMMUNITY of people who watched each other's kids, and backs. No kid would have shot up the school because every kid felt a part of the school, of the town. THAT is what those you insult as 'regressive' are longing to revive, not segregation, date rape, or whatever other ill dominates your memory of the past.

EDIT: The school employing the 'no gun' rule was not based on actual safety, but on saving money on insurance. Having a no gun rule lowered insurance rates........