School 1945-1955 vs 2014. Author Unknown
SCHOOL-1945 -1955 vs. 20
Scenario :Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school.
1945 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.
2012 - Police called, and they arrest Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programmes for 3 months. School governors hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programmes.
Scenario :
Robbie won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1945 - Robbie sent to the office and given six of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2012 - Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADHD - result deemed to be positive. Robbie's parents get fbi-monthly disability payments and school gets extra funding from government because Robbie has a disability.
Scenario :
Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1945 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2012 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care; joins a gang; ends up in jail.
Scenario :
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1945 - Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with. Passes exams, becomes a solicitor.
2012- Police called, parents' car searched for drugs and weapons. Mark expelled from school for drug taking. Ends up as a drop out.
Scenario :
Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks from 24th of May, puts them in a paint tin & blows up a wasp's nest.1945 - Wasps die.
2012- Police & Anti-Terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, investigate parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated. Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly in an airplane again.
Scenario :
Johnny falls over while running during morning break and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. She hugs him to comfort him.
1945 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing football. No damage done.
2012 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy and ends up gay.How stupid we have become!
A Walk in the Park
My neighbor related this story to me tonight,he had read it online this morning. I looked it up and thought it would be worthwhile to post it. I think it really brings home how good life was for us in Wingham in the fifties.
Now imagine Chief Bert Platt or Constable Ted Whitby coming to visit your mom?
Bob McIntyre
A Florida mother was arrested and charged with child neglect after she allowed her 7-year-old son to walk a half-mile to the local park alone.
“I’m totally dumbfounded by this whole situation,” Nicole Gainey, of Port St. Lucie, told a localNBC affiliate.
Sportsman Park is reportedly one-half mile, or about 10 to 15 minutes, from Miss Gainey’s home. She said she didn’t think much of it when she allowed her son Dominic to take the trip alone on Sunday.
“I honestly didn’t think I was doing anything wrong. I was letting him go play,” she told the station.
As Dominic was passing by a public pool, lifeguards asked him where his mother was.
“They asked me a couple questions, and I got scared so I ran off to the park and then they called the cops,” Dominic said.
Police found the boy in the park playground playing with other children. He had a cellphone around his neck that was given to him by his mother, a police affidavit said.
Police took the boy home and the mother was arrested and charged with child neglect.
“My own bondsman said my parents would have been in jail every day,” she said.
Police wrote in the report that Dominic was unsupervised at the park and that “numerous sex offenders reside in the vicinity.”
“He just basically kept going over that there’s pedophiles, and this and that, and basically the park wasn’t safe, and he shouldn’t be there alone,” Miss Gainey told the station.
She said she plans to fight the felony charge, but won’t let Dominic go to the park alone anymore.
The St. Lucie County State’s Attorney’s office told the NBC affiliate that there is no law specifying how old a child has to be before being left alone. It’s reportedly done on a case-by-case basis
Read more: http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/29/mom-arrested-allowing-7-year-old-son-walk-park-alo/#ixzz390GSTzKv
Music and Power of Words
This is a short story about the "power of words.
Flash back to public school Grade 5 or maybe it was Grade 6 , the class is all gathered in the small music room at the end of the upstairs hall getting ready for the musicfestival.
They are singing Men of Harlech (in the hollow do ye hear like rushing billows etc.) Remember that one? Me, I really got into this song and begin to sing enthusiastically and 'loudly' and off tune of course. The music teacher singles me out and asks me to leave. I forget the words she used now but they were quite clear, "you can't sing."
Here's a quote about this that sums the situation up nicely.
"The trouble with predictions of failure in music is that they often go unchallenged.They then take a foothold in the mind,as it were, as a rationale for inertia. For most children,a diagnosis of tone deafness becomes the basis of a lifelong conviction that music is out for them.
And it is a great loss".
Frank R.Wilson Neurologist and amateur
pianist from his book 'Tone Deaf and all Thumbs.'
Fast forward about 60 years and the yearning to make music and sing are still there. The search begins, for an instrument that is easy to play, simple and portable. The answer was found in the lowly misunderstood and under rated Ukelele which is now having a renaissance of sorts.
Now I can play many of my favorite songs from the fifties and music from many other genres. I may not play them perfect but hey I'm doing it and having fun. Now the singing part, that's another hurdle yet to jump. So you see it's never to late to turn 'those words' around.
Words used incorrectly can bring havock and disharmony to those whom they are directed. However, one good word can bring joy and hope to those who need it most. I think all of us can remember a time where someone's words has had profound effect on our life in some way or other.
“Be careful of the words you say, keep them soft and sweet; You never know from day to day which ones you'll have to eat.” Author Unknown
Bob McIntyre
Bob McIntyre
