Sad, but very very true.
Todd
--- JULIE MELTON <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Subject: [EAofL] How we have progressed as a society
> 
> Scenario:
> Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun
> rack.
> 
> 1953 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at
> Jack's rifle, goes
> to
> his car and gets his 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.
> 
> 1953 - 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.
> 
> 1953 - 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.
> 
> 1953 - 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.
> 
> 1953 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal
> who has a
> headache
> also.
> 
> 2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for
> drug violations.
> Car
> searched for drugs and weapons.
> 
> ++++++++++++ +++++++++ ++++
> 
> Scenario:
> Mary turns up pregnant.
> 
> 1953 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her
> senior year at a
> special school for expectant mothers.
> 
> 2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned
> Parenthood, who notifies
> the
> ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets
> an abortion
> without
> her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given
> condoms and told to be
> more
> careful next time.
> 
> ++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++
> 
> Scenario:
> Pedro fails high school English.
> 
> 1953: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English,
> goes to college.
> 
> 2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic
> 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.
> 
> 1953 - 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.
> 
> 1953 - 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.
> 



 
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