How Times Have Changed...

[handNthedirt]

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1973.....Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 ......School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973 ......Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 .......Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1973 ........Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 ......Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1973 ........Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 .Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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

1973 ....Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 ........... Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1973 .........5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006.........Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. 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 can't speak English.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1973 ....... Ants die.

2006........... 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.

[Old Tiger]

crazy

[handNthedirt]

crazy, but the damn truth.

[coiled2strike]

My wife called today, frantic...turns out my soon to be 3 year old asked her pre-school teacher "don't tell mom, I'll get a spanking." The other children chimed in...yeah, don't tell, she'll get a spanking...so, the lady calls my wife concerned about us spanking our daughter...At first I laughed it off, but after some thought I'm going to meet with them Monday morning...funny that you posted this today...

[BTEXDAD]

I was right there. Graduated in '74.
I remember a friend of mine getting new deer rifle and several of us looking at it on the school parking lot. Don't see many gun racks in pickups anymore.
Also I had to go to principal's office and get paddled on two different occasions. Can I still sue him and the school, or is there some kind of statue of limitations?

Some of these may be a little far fetched, handndirt, but not by much.

[RMAC]

What ever happened to the good old days? I know I'm not that old, but even when I was growing up this crap didn't happen.

[handNthedirt]

I graduated HS in the mid 90's and I can't tell you how much HS has changed since then.....it really makes me sick to my stomach, and reeeeal weary of the direction this country is heading, especially after last Tuesday.:( :mad: :confused:

[Buckeyeman]

When I was in high school in the early to mid 70's if a girl got pregnant she went to live with her "aunt and uncle" in Kansas for a year.

[BTEXDAD]

Originally posted by handNthedirt
I graduated HS in the mid 90's and I can't tell you how much HS has changed since then.....it really makes me sick to my stomach, and reeeeal weary of the direction this country is heading, especially after last Tuesday.:( :mad: :confused: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[Boosty_Hondo]

this is so true i wish i could have lived back then everything was so much more relaxed

[Ranger Mom]

I remember my junior year, I had an English class with only one other girl. She got a a sunflower seed stuck in her appendix and missed the last 2 months of school...but I digress.

I was the ONLY girl in that class at that point. My teacher was also a coach. I got caught chewing gum in class one day and had to get my mandatory "3 licks" (as they were called back then).

Instead of having a female teacher do it...he made me stand in front of the class and let the GUYS count the swats! Well he had got to about 6 or 7 swats by the time they said "ONE".

So...I ended up with about 17 swats before it was all said and done.

Can I sue for something????

I wonder if that experience has scarred me into the person I am today!!!!

:crazy1: :crazy1:

[Gobbla2001]

I share your pain, hand... I hate the direction...

I've been thinking about going out to Wyoming or Oregon or something and working on a ranch as a hand, like one of those big 20,000 acre ones... was never raised on a farm, but would just like to be out in the wilderness on a freakin' horse far far away from all of the bullchit described in your post...

I think it needs to be stickied up top to remind people how crappy it is becoming...

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
I remember my junior year, I had an English class with only one other girl. She got a a sunflower seed stuck in her appendix and missed the last 2 months of school...but I digress.

I was the ONLY girl in that class at that point. My teacher was also a coach. I got caught chewing gum in class one day and had to get my mandatory "3 licks" (as they were called back then).

Instead of having a female teacher do it...he made me stand in front of the class and let the GUYS count the swats! Well he had got to about 6 or 7 swats by the time they said "ONE".

So...I ended up with about 17 swats before it was all said and done.

Can I sue for something????

I wonder if that experience has scarred me into the person I am today!!!!

:crazy1: :crazy1:

you know, I bet some of those guys still think about that day ;)

[Blastoderm55]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
I remember my junior year, I had an English class with only one other girl. She got a a sunflower seed stuck in her appendix and missed the last 2 months of school...but I digress.

I was the ONLY girl in that class at that point. My teacher was also a coach. I got caught chewing gum in class one day and had to get my mandatory "3 licks" (as they were called back then).

Instead of having a female teacher do it...he made me stand in front of the class and let the GUYS count the swats! Well he had got to about 6 or 7 swats by the time they said "ONE".

So...I ended up with about 17 swats before it was all said and done.

Can I sue for something????

I wonder if that experience has scarred me into the person I am today!!!!

:crazy1: :crazy1:

If your cheeks have a scar, or if you can prove you didn't have a crack before the licks, I think you'll own the school.

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Blastoderm55
If your cheeks have a scar, or if you can prove you didn't have a crack before the licks, I think you'll own the school.

Hmm...the thought of "owning" Coahoma High School just doesn't seem to do anything for me!!

My point is...if something like that were to go on today....there would be sexual harrassment accusations being thrown around.

All my parents said was, "well, you shouldn't have been chewing gum in class"!!:D

[mustang68]

Today it would be how dare you let my child chew gum in your class.

[Pudlugger]

This is so true it hurts. I remember bringing my .22 to speech class as part of a presentation on hunting and shooting! I can't imagine that in this day and age.

We can't turn back the clock. Things are truly different now. Maybe that's why I'm a conservative. I value how things were in the past and am suspicious of change for its own sake. It isn't always progress, doncha' know? You betcha.

[Blastoderm55]

Hah, can you imagine if the founders of this country had been conservatives? We'd be a third-world country still owned by Great Britain.

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Blastoderm55
Hah, can you imagine if the founders of this country had been conservatives? We'd be a third-world country still owned by Great Britain.

conservative - label

liberal - label

democrat - label

republican - label

what's in your heart mixed with some down to earth logic - what we really need here...

[Blastoderm55]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
conservative - label

liberal - label

democrat - label

republican - label

what's in your heart mixed with some down to earth logic - what we really need here...

Agreed. I just hate that extremists from both sides use the labels to villify the very people they should be working alongside in an effort to better this nation.

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Blastoderm55
Agreed. I just hate that extremists from both sides use the labels to villify the very people they should be working alongside in an effort to better this nation.

yup

[handNthedirt]

that's the dad-gummed truth, but impossible...unfortunately.

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by handNthedirt
that's the dad-gummed truth, but impossible...unfortunately. yup, sad but true :weeping:

[Maroon87]

In the mid-80s my buddies really would come to school with deer rifles in their pickup gun racks, and some of the coaches would take a look at them after practice and swap hunting stories. Those were good days...:(

[coach]

there was a lockdown today in lewisville high school bc the bank across the street was robbed. and the school wasnt even threatened by it.....

[Phantom Stang]

I can remember comparing knives in the "smoking area".

[mrescape43]

Originally posted by Phantom Stang
I can remember comparing knives in the "smoking area".

So true and you didn't have near the extreme violence in schools that we have today. Just try to put into perspective how bad it will be in 10 or 12 years if you go back and look at the difference in the past decade.

[Pudlugger]

Originally posted by Blastoderm55
Hah, can you imagine if the founders of this country had been conservatives? We'd be a third-world country still owned by Great Britain.

Not true. It was the Tories who were the liberals in those days. Freedom from taxation and all, remember the Boston Tea Party? Concription into the Kings Army was another issue. The American Revolution was about individual freedom, and economic freedom and was a rebellion against the Monarchy. The Monarchy would be like Big Government and the Socialist Nanny State liberals love so much today. You have it backwards.:(

[LH OffseasonVet]

A few years ago I heard about a kid in Gatesville who got suspended because he had some empty shotgun shells left in his pickup from weekend hunting.

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by LH OffseasonVet
A few years ago I heard about a kid in Gatesville who got suspended because he had some empty shotgun shells left in his pickup from weekend hunting.

Yah, that sucks...

I took my step-dad's truck to school one day and was called out to the parking lot to remove a non-alcoholic beer can out of the back...

[handNthedirt]

non-alcoholic beer cans....hilarious.

[Ranger Mom]

Do you remember that story a few years ago about that guy who helped his grandma take some stuff to a garage sale and a butter knife (A BUTTER KNIFE) fell out in his seat and he was suspended from school for 3 days??

I think that was the longest run-on sentence I have ever written!

[SintonFan]

Originally posted by handNthedirt
Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1973.....Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 ......School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973 ......Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 .......Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1973 ........Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 ......Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1973 ........Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 .Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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

1973 ....Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 ........... Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1973 .........5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006.........Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. 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 can't speak English.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1973 ....... Ants die.

2006........... 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.
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:clap: :clap: :clap:
Thank you for that hNtd!

[carter08]

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by carter08
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore

We got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world to be humming
Just keep it coming
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom


I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country



I used to love that song, mainly because of that line right there because I believe it...

But then he goes making pop music with his wife so I can't hear the song without throwing up now...

[SintonFan]

I remember well that a couple of buddies always had their rifles and shotguns on their guns racks. You don't see much in the way of gun racks in pickups anymore as they are quickly stolen.
lol
I also remember when someone got a new Buck knife it was showed off to everyone in school. We always wore those knifes in class. When we got into fights it WAS with fist, not weapons.
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What's happening now is something that is called "incrementalism" and it has been happening for years(I have posted about this quite a bit). It takes time to see the change but change happens nonetheless. And yes, the ACLU is responsible for much of this(and those who back them).:mad:

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
I used to love that song, mainly because of that line right there because I believe it...

But then he goes making pop music with his wife so I can't hear the song without throwing up now...

I'm sorry...I didn't mean to make you sick!

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
I'm sorry...I didn't mean to make you sick!

it's all your fault...

I think we need to give you licks infront of the class now...

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
it's all your fault...

I think we need to give you licks infront of the class now...

LOL!! I have a bigger target now!!:D

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
LOL!! I have a bigger target now!!:D

well I'll practice just incase...

[BullFrog Dad]

Originally posted by Maroon87
In the mid-80s my buddies really would come to school with deer rifles in their pickup gun racks, and some of the coaches would take a look at them after practice and swap hunting stories. Those were good days...:( Now you get in trouble for wearing 'Winnie the Pooh' socks.