School in '57 vs '07

[Casanova[OCAU]]

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 - 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.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal.
Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: 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.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister 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 aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

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. 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 cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2007 - 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.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - 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.

[Joe]

ahahahahahahaha....Gah, I can't stop laughing at this XD

Though it does sound funny, the scary thing is that for the most part, your relatively right. Says a lot of scary things about our society as a whole, doesn't it?

[Bleachfangirl]

Wow. 1957 sounded like a great time to live in. You made a funny list of scenarios and outcomes. The things that happen in 2007 however seem a bit overboard...but not to surprisingly, they do happen.

[Unknown Entity]

Those are brill! I needed that laugh!

Alot of it is kinda true though... things really were really different back then, and to do half of that stuff could probably break a few rules in this day and age lol... piss takers...

[Tiger Lily]

I saw that on TV once - mayhaps it differed slightly, but the scenarios were practically identical. I found it pretty sad. I think it was on one of those Current Affair programmes.

Kind of an offshoot of this insane "Political correctness" business. It's funny and sad at the same time, really.

[Gillamobster]

You missed the part about getting drafted and killing Asians overseas in a bloody effort to stop the spread of Communism.

Today it's largely the same, only replace Asians with Middle Easterners and Communism with Islamic Theocracy. Oh, and our army is 100% volunteers.

[Govinda]

It's funny, but it leaves out the fact that then neither women nor black people could vote. 1957 was not better than now. I'd have been encouraged to take SEWING in school in 1957.

Still, people do get dramatic these days. But it bears wondering: without the drama would the rights we take for granted be preserved? There's a fine line between everything.

Today, I am feeling SERIOUS. So there.

[Rocky]

Scenario: 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.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's Mom has affair with psychologist.

Although much of the stuff is pretty farfetched (see example above). I do see where you're getting at. I like the fistfight scenario because it is so true for both eras.

[Yuki-onna]

Oh, my god. That's funny. And sadly, very true.

...yeah, chicks and dicks were seperated back then though, which isn't so far back then at all. Isn't it ridiculous only a short time ago women had a lot of shortcomings on their rights, and to this day we're stil short changed in a lot of areas? Seriously. And black people being discriminated, that's even worse. Seperating them from the whites. Honestly, people are so ****ing stupid.

Sometimes I'm just really ashamed of my country.

[Pete]

wtf blacks and women could vote in 57. not 1857, but 1957.

Everything is pretty spot on though. People are too god damn thin skinned both physically and emotionally. Sometimes a kid needs to get yelled at, just as much as they need a kick in the ass. I'm not saying beat your kid bloody, but if they **** up, sometimes hitting them does the trick. When I ****ed up, I got hit, lost my videogames and tv privileges. I turned out ok, and learned not to **** up again.

I miss the good ole days.