Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting
before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1967 - Vice Principal comes over, looks
at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - 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: Johnny and Mark get into a
fistfight after school.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny
and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody
arrested, nobody expelled.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team
arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even
though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in
class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey is sent to office and given
a good paddling by the principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not
disrupt class again.
2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of
Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state
because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his
neighbor's car with a ball and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time,
grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's Dad is arrested for
child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist
tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes
to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and
takes some aspirin to school .
1967 - Mark shares aspirin with principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called. Mark expelled
from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and
weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school
English.
1967 - Pedro goes to summer school,
passes English, goes to college.
2007 - Pedro'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
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 cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover
firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle,
blows up a red ant bed.
1967 - Ants die.
2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, Homeland Securityand 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.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running
during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Heather.
Heather hugs him to comfort him.
1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels
better and goes on playing.
2007 - Heather is accused of being a
sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in State Prison. Johnny
undergoes five years of therapy.
(taken from an email sent to me; author unknown)
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