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    School system gone mad!!

    In light of recent events I'd like to dedicate this post to STAR!! (It's a PC world gone mad!)

    Love and Happiness
    Hippie
    xx

    SCHOOL 1957 vs. 2007

    Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school.
    1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.
    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 caning 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 neighbour's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
    1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normally, goes to uni, and becomes a successful businessman.
    2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's Mum has affair with psychologist.

    Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

    1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal.
    2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

    Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

    1957 - Pedro gets extra tuition, passes English, goes to Uni.
    2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. Class action lawsuit filed by anti discrimination commissioner against Education Dept 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, puts them in a model aeroplane paint bottle, blows up an ant bed.

    1957 - Ants die.
    2007 - Local police & AFP called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, parents investigated, 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 morning tea 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 prison while Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
    "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." Kahlil Gibran
    Clean and sober 25th January 2009

    #2
    School system gone mad!!

    sigh
    AF April 9, 2016

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      #3
      School system gone mad!!

      more2life;233786 wrote: In twenty years, these will seem like the good ol' days. Very scary and sad!
      What a thought!! Maybe I SHOULD just drink myself to death now and have done with it!!!

      Love and Happiness
      Hippie
      xx
      "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." Kahlil Gibran
      Clean and sober 25th January 2009

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        #4
        School system gone mad!!

        I was born in 1957 but my recollections of school and punishments were the same up to 1977. The world went mad after that!
        In life we can live out our dreams its true
        the one who decides,takes chances,makes choices is YOU.

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          #5
          School system gone mad!!

          hippie you are too clever.
          ironic but truc
          You can't turn a pickle into a cucumber

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            #6
            School system gone mad!!

            ha ha!!
            "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." Kahlil Gibran
            Clean and sober 25th January 2009

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              #7
              School system gone mad!!

              Good god, are Brit schools that bad, too? I thought it was just us in Cali. If I had kids, god help the little buggers, I'd have to home-school them.
              And you may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?" And you may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go?" And you may ask yourself,"Am I right?...Am I wrong?" And you may tell yourself..."MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

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                #8
                School system gone mad!!

                Sigh is it really....laughing is....well, I only do that to cover my fear; yes, 20 years and it'll seem like the good old days??? EEEK!

                Pasting it to my cousin stuck in a psychiatric hospital (as a doctor BTW!!!) - he needs a load of laughs in there - although, as he says, the patients are the nicest and most sane of all!!

                Thanks Hippie!!
                :heart: c: :heart:
                "Be patient and gentle with yourself - the magic is in you."

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                  #9
                  School system gone mad!!

                  Oh yes, the good old days. I did once get a whack with the belt across the palm of my hand in school for something that I actually didn't do - and have never forgotten that, because it would have been so out of charactor for me, wallflower that I was, to do anything to deserve it.

                  We did spank our son when needed, and he says he will do the same. There is a difference between a good smack on the behind and a beating. No wonder kids these days don't listen or behave!
                  The furture lies before you like newly fallen snow - be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

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                    #10
                    School system gone mad!!

                    Hippie, this is so good, I had to send it on to my bestest teacher friend.
                    Lori
                    *Definition of Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result* Albert Einstein

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                      #11
                      School system gone mad!!

                      Can`t speak for anywhere else, but here anyway, state schools (or "zoos" as I prefer to call them) as we know them today are on the road out..........not before time.........so many problems within them that education suffers dreadfully.

                      Starlight Impress x

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