Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack .
2007 - School goes into lock down, the FBI are called, and Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors are called in for traumatized students and teachers. Lawyers representing the families of the other students file a $50 million class action lawsuit against Jack, his family, the principle, the school, and the Board of Education.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody is arrested, and nobody is expelled.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, Johnny and Mark are both arrested. They are both charged with assault and expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class and disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. He now sits still in class and pays attention in class.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin and becomes a zombie. The school gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1957 - 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 and Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.
1957 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Due to the new "Zero Tolerance" policy, the police are called and Mark is expelled from school for distributing drugs and narcotics violations. His car is searched for drugs and weapons. A box cutter that Mark uses at his after school job is found in his car and weapons charges are pending. Mark's family is burdened with tens of thousands of dollars of attorney costs.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by the state Democratic Party and the ACLU. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is a racist policy. The ACLU files a class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but he ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, and the FBI are called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates Johnny's parents. All of his siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and 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, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing with his classmates at recess.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison and is forced to register as a Sex Offender.
Is something wrong here?
Of course, that is a rhetorical question. Some of the problem is we have teachers that are ignorant or do not take the time to make sure that they do the job properly and to the highest standard. Due to teachers unions like the NEA, they cannot be fired therefore there is no motivation to maintain a high standard and for the most part they do not care. This is one of the problems that plague the educational system.
These are the People that Educate Our Children
On 30 April 2007, a food fight took place in the cafeteria at Markham
Intermediate School on Staten Island, N.Y. The Dean, Michael Levy, sent a letter to all
parents to announce that the entire eighth grade class would be punished for
the mess. The Dean declared that the fight in the "caferteria" was "unexcecpable" and that parents must sign the letter or their
children will be excluded from "all senior activates" such as the prom and the senior trip.
Principal of Markham Intermediate School, Emma Della Rocca, said the dean did not have her permission to send the letter, and she countermanded the collective punishment.
We can only hope that Principle Rocca made Dean Levy stay after school and take a remedial course in "Basic Letter Writing Skills" and "Spelling". But you be the judge, here is the letter.
Letter Written by Dean Michael Levy
This is a simple letter written by Dean Michael Levy. What grade would this letter earn? You would think that an educator would know how to spell these words contained within this letter, but as you can see, such is not the case. It is no wonder that high school graduates seem so uneducated in general. Look at the fine example of the teacher - and a Dean no less. How can you expect the students to be better educated than the teachers?
It is not like he really had to worry about spelling as this letter was written on a computer and one of the standard features of word processing software is the "Spell Check" feature. It actually does the thinking for you. Yet somehow, Dean Michael Levy, the educator of children, lacked the education necessary to write a simple letter. The other teachers were laughing at him, the students were laughing at him, and now you get to laugh at him.
Brilliant Woman Solves All of California's Problems
The following video is a direct result of the progress made in the last 50 years of education by those that have been in charge of education for the last 50 years.
How can anyone argue with logic like that? Here is a woman who sees how simple the world really is. She has all of the answers and we can thank the public school system for her ability to understand and find solutions to society's problems.
With their control of the education system, this is what Liberals have done to the youth of America. What else can we say?
