High School 1957 vs 2010

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sad commentary on today's society!!

Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail 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.
2010 - 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.

Scenario2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2010 - Police called and SW A T 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.
2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for A DD. 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.
2010 - 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 abused 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.
2010 - 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.
2010 - 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.
2010 - 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.
2010 - 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......
 
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Ain't it the sad sad truth.
I had a rifle in my car the entire time I was in highschool. Nobody gave it a thought.
They use to close the highschool on opening day of Elk season when I was attending. There wouldn't be any teachers or students there anyway.

I was in the largest graduating class in the school up until that time. 13
 
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A truly sad commentary. Graduated high school in the late 60's. I remember during deer season, nearly every car or truck had a rifle or shotgun in it, most of them visible.
 
same with me I got out in 1984 and the whole time I was in we had trucks with gun racks. there was one mabye two guns on them.you could pull them out and show your friends in the parking lot.and most all carried a pocket knife.
 
Got out in 1974, we all had a gun rack in our trucks, On the Friday before Deer season opened we all cut class to go put up our stands and our shotgun or rifle stayed in the gun rack or on the dash all deer season. And we never locked our vehicles. No one cared that we had a gun on school grounds during hunting season.

Most of us went hunting before school and came in with our camo on for class as we would go back to the woods after school.

Wonder how that would go over now?
News Flash: Terrorists take over school. Video at 11.....

What a sad world we live in today. :(
 
I graduated in 1974. When I was young we would go to some land that my grandmother owned in a rural part of Los Angeles and shoot. there were lots of snakes (both no legged and two legged) in the area. So we always had a handgun on the hip. Can you imagine today if some 14 year old kid told his teacher that his dad had him carry a .22 all day sunday and actually even fire the scary thing.
 
This grade school picture is about 1948. Emil Stralow on the right was our teacher in the one room school at borth wisconsin. Supposedly he was the oldest teacher in wisconsin at the time. He was so old that his father had fought in the civil war. One day he brought his fathers civil war rifle to school and shot it for us kids behind the school house!
The bruntage brothers in the back row used to drive a old 27 or 28 chev coupe to school! Times have changed! I am standing in the front row, they got my name wrong, and my name isnt listed. Times sure have changed! (I am the first boy in the front row to the left, my sister is "wendie")

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I graduated from HS in 1968 but didn't have a pickup. It was common to just leave my .22 rifle in my locker during school and hunt squirrels with a group of guys after school. Never ever an incident of any kind. This was Western Pa back in the day. First day of deer season was also an excused absence.
Cherokee Slim
 
I graduated 1986 in the northern panhandle of WV. We all carried Buck knives on our hips and half of us had guns in our cars. We didn't get the first day of deer season off - they gave us the whole week for Thanksgiving since that's when deer season started. Otherwise, between deer and turkey - none of the guys were in school for the week anyway.
 
I graduated high school in 58'. You left out in your senario 4 that Billy had to get a summer job to pay for the window repair.
 
7-28 I'm going to my 45th high school reunion in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Going to get a tour of the high school on Friday afternoon. I'll report back here how things have changed. I haven't been "home" in 20 years so it should be interesting. There were 553 kids in the graduating class and now we are a bunch of old people.


7-31 UPDATE: The 3 youngest looking guys in the class did it the simple way: One employer for thirty + years and went out the door at age 55 to 57. They looked 10 years younger than every body else. Several class member teachers stated retirement was taken because of today's students--didn't want to learn, class discipline, spineless administration.

Building has lots of computers, wood shop class still has 1950 vintage shop equipment. Vintage American cast iron just doesn't wear out. Library had 3 sets of World Book encyclopedias that are going to be tossed out, obsolete in the computer age.
 
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Well must be where I am from that things have taken longer to change. I graduated in highschool in 1999, and I remember seeing rifles in the rear window of trucks during deer season right in the school parking lot.
 
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Wow, i wish I was in HS back in those times. I graduated in 08 and HS was one of the worse experiences. Our school was and still is to my knowledge surrounded by an 8 foot barbed wire fence, yes barbed wire. Cameras everywhere. A friend of mine had his truck searched because he had a gun rack (no gun). his Paintball gun was confiscated by the deputy and returned to him outside of the school gates. another friend of mine was detained for having a swiss army knife key chain that had no knife only scissors. If you had a problem with someone you had to fight him outside of school and that was an issue because they always tried to jump you. If two people got in a heated argument the school deputy was called to escort them to the deans office. This is Palmetto Ridge High a school in a mainly wealthy city, Naples Florida. It was considered one of the nicest schools. I hear its worse now. The whole High School experience you see in movies, and many of you lived, is now dead.
 
The saddest part is that's the direction America is heading. Soft, with a finger pointed at the panic button. The best part is for those of us who graduated way back then, we will be dead when the worst part happens.
 
I live in the city of Columbus. Columbus City Schools is my district. In the fall, my oldest son begins kindergarten but he won't be attending school in Columbus City. Rather, he'll be going to a private school where culture, discipline, and sensibility can prevail (in some cases, anyway). We recently learned that Columbus City Schools will actually transport him from our home to this private school and back again. However, we will be transporting him ourselves, as I prefer not to have him mingle with kids with whom I don't want him to go to school. What good is the separation of the private school if the wall is breached on the bus?

I don't know what we'll do for high school, but we have time to decide. Stories like the one just told about Palmetto Ridge High don't make me look kindly upon public schools. I've become convinced the terms "good" and "public" are contradictory when attached to schools.

And if all else fails, we'll do it ourselves.
 
I live in the city of Columbus. Columbus City Schools is my district. In the fall, my oldest son begins kindergarten but he won't be attending school in Columbus City. Rather, he'll be going to a private school where culture, discipline, and sensibility can prevail (in some cases, anyway). We recently learned that Columbus City Schools will actually transport him from our home to this private school and back again. However, we will be transporting him ourselves, as I prefer not to have him mingle with kids with whom I don't want him to go to school. What good is the separation of the private school if the wall is breached on the bus?

I don't know what we'll do for high school, but we have time to decide. Stories like the one just told about Palmetto Ridge High don't make me look kindly upon public schools. I've become convinced the terms "good" and "public" are contradictory when attached to schools.

And if all else fails, we'll do it ourselves.

It is disturbing. schools arent as innocent and clean as they used to be. Even I remember being around 14 in middle school and playing with some toys and bike riding with my friends. seems today even middle schools have drugs and excessive amounts of violent and disturbed kids. All of them trying to emulate the rappers, gangstars and movie stars (not the good ones either). The sad part is that if your child is opposed to any of that, all he/she can do is report it to the administration. heaven forbid your kid hits another because he was pushed in the play ground or called a nasty name. I spent many days in middle school in the office. Being the quiet kid I was, other kids like to pick on me. Unfortunately for them I came from a country that you would get yelled at by parents and teachers if you didnt stand up for yourself, much like the old days, so I didnt obey the tell the teacher policy.lol In the old days there was a sense of companionship and respect among students and all that came from a strict honor code not by laws, regulations and threats to have you escorted by an officer.
 
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on the rare days we had snow in Oklahoma when I was 12 or 13, I would get on the school bus with a .22 rifle and a box of shells, put them in my locker at school and on the way home, get off the bus a couple miles from home and hunt my way back. The world has changed but not for better.
 
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