{"id":249,"date":"2008-03-03T10:10:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-03-03T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T11:11:07","slug":"school-1978-v-school-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"School 1978 v School 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:638,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Anti-social_behaviour_order&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Anti-social_behaviour_order&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.<br \/> <strong>1978 <\/strong>&#8211; Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.<br \/> <strong>2008 <\/strong>&#8211; Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-social_behaviour_order\" target=\"_blank\">ASBOs<\/a> are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Jeffrey won&#39;t sit still in class, disrupts other students.<br \/> <strong>1978 <\/strong>&#8211; Jeffrey is sent to the Head&#39;s office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.<br \/> <strong>2008 <\/strong>&#8211; Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour&#39;s car and his Dad gives him the slipper.<br \/> <strong>1978 <\/strong>&#8211; Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.<br \/> <strong>2008 <\/strong>&#8211; Billy&#39;s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy&#39;s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy&#39;s mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.<br \/> <strong>1978 <\/strong>&#8211; Ants die.<br \/> <strong>2008 <\/strong>&#8211; MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with perpetrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny&#39;s dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.<br \/> <strong>1978 <\/strong>&#8211; Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.<br \/> <strong>2008 <\/strong>&#8211; Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Many a true word spoken in jest!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This was lifted from a post on the Edugeek site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school. 1978 &#8211; Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates. 2008 &#8211; Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;School 1978 v School 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-41","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}