saddlebum Posted November 30, 2011 #1 Posted November 30, 2011 SCHOOL - 1957 vs. 2010 Scenario : Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school. 1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. 2010 - Police called, arrests Johnny and Mark.. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programs for 3 months. School governors hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programmes Scenario : Robbie won't be still in class, disrupts other students. 1957 - Robbie sent to office and given 6 of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. 2010 - Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADHD. Robbie's parents get fortnightly disability payments and School gets extra funding from government because Robbie 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 normal, goes to college, and becomes a succe ssful businessman. 2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school. 1957 - Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with. 2010 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug taking. Car searched for drugs and weapons. Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks from Guy Fawkes night, puts them in a paint tin & blows up a wasp's nest. 1957 - Wasps die. 2010- Police & Anti-Terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, investigate 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 morning break 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 bet ter and goes on playing. 2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy. This should be sent to every e-mail address to show how stupid we have become!
RandyR Posted November 30, 2011 #2 Posted November 30, 2011 The good news here is that there are more jobs for social workers.
bongobobny Posted November 30, 2011 #3 Posted November 30, 2011 As Forest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does..."
Yammer Dan Posted November 30, 2011 #4 Posted November 30, 2011 As Forest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does..." :sign yeah that::sign yeah that:
GAWildKat Posted November 30, 2011 #5 Posted November 30, 2011 I wasn't alive in 1957, however I was able to keep my meds, both OTC and script in my purse/backpack throughout my school years. Even was able to keep my feminine products with me as well. Also was allow to keep a bag of candy in my purse in case my blood sugar dropped and I felt I was blacking out. To my parents that was making me responsible. Now I hear all those things aren't allowed by the students. And Adults in the education system and workplaces wonder why teenagers and young adults can't be trusted with responsibility? I think there's a correlation there.
hydraulicman Posted November 30, 2011 #6 Posted November 30, 2011 The good news here is that there are more jobs for social workers. But they all work for the GOVERNMENT.
saddlebum Posted November 30, 2011 Author #7 Posted November 30, 2011 But they all work for the GOVERNMENT. :sign yeah that::sign yeah that:
Yammer Dan Posted November 30, 2011 #8 Posted November 30, 2011 And??? Oh nevermind I don't work anymore...
bongobobny Posted November 30, 2011 #9 Posted November 30, 2011 Hooo Boy! Didn't take this thread long to turn political...
darthandy Posted November 30, 2011 #10 Posted November 30, 2011 Is it political if we insult a "government" in general? Especially if it's the truth? Andy
TDunc Posted December 1, 2011 #11 Posted December 1, 2011 Working in the classroom (I handle in school suspension) I see all of this as a problem. As an example, I was sharing how I got my first and last paddling in the very school I work in (and by the same man that is my boss now after 42 years) and the first response I received from every child in the room was something to the effect of ...They wouldn't touch me like that or I would have them arrested. Right here in CLT this past week a kid was in trouble for taking a cough drop during school. The statment was made that they could actually overdose on them if they had them or get high from them.... I laughed my backside off. It is sad but true where we have gone. Kids today are not taught being responsible for their actions unless they have good parents. Most of the time they spend most of their energy figuring out how to blame everyone and everything else. This my friends is why I closed my business and started doing what I do know.. Hopefully, they will hear and understand one day. OK, now off the soapbox.
Hummingbird Posted December 1, 2011 #12 Posted December 1, 2011 I was in school in 1957 wait wait - I was enrolled in school until February 1959. In 1960 I joined the US Army, the absolute best thing that could have happened to me at that stage of my life. I was not in any way shape or form a contributing member of society until I woke up in the barracks at Ft. Knox Ky on March 1st 1960. ( about 3 am if I remember correctly ) I cannot express enough the effect it had on me. I will forever be in debt to the US Army and the instruction I received the first 9 months of duty. I'm not ashamed to admit that as an individual, I needed that experience and I am a better person for it. Yes I did get my a$$ tanned in HS more than any other 6 people in any of my classes.
Yammer Dan Posted December 1, 2011 #13 Posted December 1, 2011 Kind of glad they didn't have a lot of those rules when I was in school. They would have Hung me from the flagpole!!
dray Posted December 1, 2011 #14 Posted December 1, 2011 Hooo Boy! Didn't take this thread long to turn political... Dan calling what he did is not political Is it? Now i need to rest
bongobobny Posted December 1, 2011 #15 Posted December 1, 2011 Dan calling what he did is not political Is it? Now i need to restNo, the word "Government" was used in a less than flattering way... It's just as political as the Wall street movement...
bongobobny Posted December 1, 2011 #17 Posted December 1, 2011 You're confused Dan? So am I! I still can't figure out what the Wall Street movement has to do with politics either, other than it's Capitalism vs Socialism, but 2 threads got deleted because of it (politics). If you can figure it out let both Charlie and I both know...
Freebird Posted December 1, 2011 #18 Posted December 1, 2011 I guess that this is just not going away. I had hoped that it would just fade away and everybody would just let it go. The link to the video that Charlie posted was blatantly political. The entire occupy wallstreet protests are political. How can you possibly separate it from politics? If any of you read the comments at the bottom of the video, they were nothing but vile attacks between the left and the right of the political spectrum. It wasn't just the video but the contents of the page where it was posted. I'm going to leave it at that. I'm sorry that not everybody always agrees with all the decisions that have to be made here and I won't say that we ALWAYS get it right but we do the best we can.
Yammer Dan Posted December 1, 2011 #19 Posted December 1, 2011 Maybe I should have watched the Vid?? Don't want to now. I try to stay as far away from that stuff as possible.... Wouldn't want to stir anything....
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