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SCHOOL 1977 vs. SCHOOL 2007Scenario: Jack goes duck hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.1977 - Vice principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his own shotgun to show Jack.2007 - School goes into lockdown, the Feds and ATF are called, Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors are called in to assist traumatized students and teachers.Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.1977 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.2007- Police are called, SWAT team arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. They are charged with assault and both are expelled even though Johnny started it.Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.1977 - Jeffrey is sent to the principal's office and given a good paddling. Re turns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra district funding because Jeffrey has a disability.Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some Aspirin to school.1977 - Mark shares Aspirin with the school principal out on the smoking dock.2007 - Police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.Scenario: Pedro fails high-school English.1977 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Lawyers file class action lawsuit against the public school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover 4th of July firecrackers, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.1977 - Ants die.2007 - FBI are called and Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. They investigate his parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.Scenario: Johnny falls during recess and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.1977 - Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in federal prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy.Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.1977 - 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 is 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 an affair with the psychologist.found this on another forum, thought i would share it, its true sadly...

Quote, originally posted by wyatt89 »found this on another forum, thought i would share it, its true sadly...Unfortunately most of that seems sooo true, what happened to good ole USA?

Quote, originally posted by Kamikaze »Unfortunately most of that seems sooo true, what happened to good ole USA?Political Correctness, my friend. It's ruining the country.

Haha. This one is my favorite:Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.1977 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.

Quote, originally posted by K-NINE »Political Correctness, my friend. It's ruining the country. Bah! It's lawyers & tort law, the demise of personal responsibility, and the culture of fear.

Quote, originally posted by GMJAP »the demise of personal responsibility+1

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover 4th of July firecrackers, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.1977 - Ants die.That was me. Wait a minute....it still is!

the one's great. sad because it's true, but great nonetheless.

sadly a lot of it is about greed too, if someone can find a way to make money out of a situation, they will.

Quote, originally posted by K-NINE »Political Correctness, my friend. It's ruining the country. Political Correctness defined.'Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.'

its sad but its the same in Canada too. Common sense is so rare we'll probably see it as a class in college. For those of you who social responsibility is gone I agree, many people want to blame someone other than themselves for their problems...and thats whe nthe class action suit comes along.

Don't even get me started on class action suits. I've been a member of numerous ones without my permission only because I registered that I bought a particular product. I bought an Epson ink-jet printer, registered it, and about 8 months later I'm now a member of a class action suit against Epson because their ink cartridges are being reported as empty by the computer even though there is a minute amount left. This was so unfair some lawyer decided to sue on my behalf and for his troubles gets millions of dollars and I get an offer of 50% off something at the Epson store so Epson is still getting more of my money on the already over-priced ink-jet cartridges. I didn't even bother, I just buy remanufactured cartridges that work just as well. I was also a member of a claim against Sony where they had put that destructive antiprotection on some of their CD releases that would put a vulnerability on your computer if you tried to convert it to mp3s.Again, I got a replacement CD and a free download from a certain catalog of Sony Music but the lawyers got millions. No point to the class action suit at least in the few I've kind of been involved in.Mike