HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010

The given dates here tell me this must be old. It's one of those e-mail jokes you get. My apologies. It's brand new to me.
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You should know that by today's standards none of us was supposed to ever make it!!!

HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010


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.


Scenario 2:
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 SWAT 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 ADD. 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 the 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.

1957 - Black people drank at different water fountains and were denied civil rights.

Not everything was utopia in the good ole days.

Yeah, but decent people I bet wouldnt bother with those segregation laws. Treat people like people.

Though I'm a child of the 70s, I never lost my love for video games. Sending me back to 1957 would mean I'd have to wait 54 years for Skyrim. It would be a hard choice for me.

yes....i had the same thoughts when i opened this thread

too many greenhorn white boys round here....

treat people like people ??

then one shouldn't make 1957 out to be heaven, as it was pure hell for many

damn !!

let the red karma flow....


i speak of race matters, and you folks get a mighty bit riled up....

I grew up in the 70s and 80's and it seems like we all had tons more imagination than a lot of kids now when it came to keepig entertained during the summer and after school.
Or maybe its just my kids, but I swear they are always wanting me to take them somewhere, they are soooooo bored. I say "Make up a game, figure something out." They look at me like I have 2 heads.

The 60's and 70's were turbulent for Racial Continuity because they were trying to force it with Busing Programs in schools across the Nations....

In Boston their was going to be a Huge Race Riot when the Black Kids were coming over the Bridge to fight the white kids in the Boston Square, that is where James Brown the singer intervened and created that song:

Say it loud I am Black and I'm Proud...

Sad but true:

Many Black Families were more together and intact during Slavery than they our today....The Men stuck around to care for their families....

if life is dull for us in this age, imagine what it could be like for people in the next 50 years.

The minorities think it's better now than in the fifties?

What, free to buy drugs from the dealers on every corner?
Free to dodge bullets from drive-by shootings?
Free to HAVE TO put iron bars on every window and door,
living like animals in cages?
Free to watch their kids wind up crackheads or thugs in gangs?

Go ask a minority who grew up in the fifties
what life was like, compared to 2012.

And I don't mean somebody who lived in the middle of KKK
country, but even those folks had it better.