School 1960 vs School 2007

[8009STEVE]

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

1960-Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.

2007-Police called. Armed Response Unit arrivesand arrest Johnny and Mark. Mobile with video of fight are confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are issued and both are suspended, even though Johnny started it. Divisionary conferences and parents meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.


Scenario: Jeffery wont sit still in class, disrupts other students.

1960- Jeffery is sent to the principles office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2007-Jeffery is given a huge dose of Retalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffery has a disability. Drops out of school.


Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbours car and Dad gives him the slipper.

1960- Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal and becomes a successful businessman.

2007- Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to a foster home and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and Dad goes to prison. Billy's mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.


Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school.

1960- Mark shares a cigarette with school principle in the smoking area.

2007- police are called and Mark is expelled for drug possession. his car is searched for drugs and weapons.


Scenario: Mohammed fails English exam.

1960- Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes on to college.

2007- Mohammed's case is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Civil liberties association files class actionlawsuit against state school system and his English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny tahes apart leftover fireworks, puts then in a paint tin and blows up an ant hill

1960-Ants die.

2007- MI5 and police are called. Johnny is charged with perpetrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from home, computers are confiscated, Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Billy falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher,Mary, finds him crying and gives him a hug to comfort him.

1960- Billy soon feels better and goes back to playing.

2007- Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in prison. Billy has 5 years of therapy. Becomes gay.

[bmcecosse]

All only too true ! My daughter is Primary Skool Teecher, and has to deal with this nonsense every day!

[MoggyTech]

Not far from the truth. The World has gone crazy in a hurry.

[simmitc]

I just wish that you were joking. The sad thing is that what you say isn't even half of the nonsense around today.

[badfelafel]

ach.... there was always nonsense! just different nonsense.

le plus ca change, le plus c'est le meme chose

[moggyminor16]

to the point if you remeber the old ways of dealing with things dose this mean you are old
in my day we could leave the cars undone ,keys in the front door all night ,pl;ay out side till way way late , drink from a tap out side , jump from trees ,play cow boys and indains, oh thoses was the days

[alanworland]

It's a mad world, and getting worser and worser! were in freefall to TOTAL MADNESS

[alex_holden]

It's a mad world, and getting worser and worser! were in freefall to TOTAL MADNESS

[bigginger]

Lucky, really, that the comparisions are based on two sets of half/quarter truths
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[rayofleamington]

1960's - Child with Autism spectrum disorder is physically and otherwise abused in his home. Beaten by teachers by day and parents by night due to his 'naughty' behaviour, until child's aggression becomes uncontrollable. Leaves school before his teens, then makes it to newly created borstal where he learns that he is scum. Leaving a trail of destruction in his wake, makes it into 'grown up prison' where worse things happen and he commits suicide before reaching 21.

2007 - Child is finally taken into care, after many years of reports of abuse to social services. Placed in a loving foster home. Develops emotionally so that the scarrs from his early life diminish enough that ASD and ADHD can be diagnosed. ADHD is treated and then at special school the child learns enough skills to get him through a functional adult life. Foster carer suffers abuse and nasty judgemental attitudes when out an about with 'naughty' child, but still has the humanity to feel sorry for those who judge without knowing any of the facts.


The world has always been crazy, and it always will be. People have always been fond of the past when wearing rose tinted glasses. Once I used to think I lived in a great country - now I've grown up.

[RogerRust]

Thanks Ray, it is sometimes appropriate to inject a little reality. I was at school in the 1960's and was taught by a mixture of misfits and psychopaths. I was always glad of the professionalism of my children's teachers even if at times I didn't like them.
There can never be an excuse for hitting children with a chair leg, I survived the grammar school that I went to, but never look back on school as the happiest days of my life. By comparison my daughter (now 25) still thinks of school as the environment that nurtured and encouraged her to develop her skills, for her they were happy days.

I won't be joining the queue to drop down the wormhole back to the '60s.

[aupickup]

must admit i enjoyed my schooldays in the 60`s and a little before, also enjoyed the 70`s a lot better than now

just peronal experience i guess

[alex_holden]

I didn't much enjoy school in the late 80s-early 90s and I was glad when it was over. College was way more fun.

[jtd.75]

hated school in the 50's, was taught by people that was trained by the gestapo (nuns & priests) times was hard but we knew how to amuse our selves 60's was ok army life, 70's I don't remember

[dave1949]

must admit i enjoyed my schooldays in the 60`s

So did i, so much i wasted a "gud edukatyon" but certainly NO regrets,left school and bought a Moggie learning curve has never stopped.

[rob.hardy1]

over time things come and go, things go in and out of fashion and rose tinted glasses are popular but, please, when will respect be back in fashion?

[chrisw]

Sometimes even nostalgia is not what it used to be!