{"id":118,"date":"2009-03-27T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeutah.org\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-03-26T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:30:05","slug":"high-school-1957-vs-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"High School &#8211; 1957 vs. 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scenario 1:<\/strong><br \/>\nJack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck&#8217;s gun rack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack&#8217;s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his own shotgun to show it to Jack..<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 2:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; Crowd gathers. Mark wins.. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; Police called and SWAT team arrives &#8212; they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 3:<\/strong><br \/>\nJeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; Jeffrey sent to the Principal&#8217;s office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 4:<\/strong><br \/>\nBilly breaks a window in his neighbor&#8217;s car and his Dad gives him a whooping with his belt..<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; Billy&#8217;s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy&#8217;s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy&#8217;s mom has an affair with the psychologist. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 5:<\/strong><br \/>\nMark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock..<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations his car is then searched for drugs and weapons. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 6:<\/strong><br \/>\nPedro fails high school English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; Pedro&#8217;s cause is taken up by 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&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 7:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n1957<\/strong> &#8211; Ants die.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; BATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents &#8212; and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny&#8217;s dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario 8:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee.. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.. She faces 3 years in State Prison&#8230; Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck&#8217;s gun rack. 1957 &#8211; Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack&#8217;s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his own shotgun to show it to Jack.. 2008 &#8211; School goes into lock down, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeutah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}