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1973 - 2006

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1. 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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2. 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 both with assault, both expelled even though

Johnny started it.

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3. 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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4. 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 the psychologist.

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5. 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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6. Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

 

1973 - Three 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 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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7. 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 ACLU. 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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8. Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover fire-crackers 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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9. Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.

 

He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.

 

1973 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

 

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.

She faces 3 years in State Prison.

Most of it is true, although the Pedro one and the scrape one were way too overblown.

 

Has any teacher been charged with sexual molestation for hugging a child? I haven't heard.

 

English also hasn't been removed from the curriculum in any school to my knowledge over something like this. I don't think people would let it happen.

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