Then vs. Now: Sad but True

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Lissa, I'm glad your school experience wasn't like that!

Sadly, it IS that way here in Wisconsin, where my youngest just graduated.

I know kids who got arrested for fighting in school. One on One punches that resulted in both being arrested.
I know one who got expelled for a sarcastic remark that even the teacher he made it to admitted was just a bad joke...
The kids here used to be allowed to take rifles to school to attend gun safety classes which were required if you want to hunt prior to age 16 and there has never been an incidence of violence with one here in school. Now they can't use a "look alike" gun in a school play because kids elsewhere misbehaved with them.
My own son was a class clown and we fought the school to keep him off ritalin.... finally tests showed he has a very high IQ and was simply bored senseless, so instead of giving him help as they would have if he'd have been ADHD, they made life so hard for him that we ended up pulling him out to homeschool him.

I have very little faith in public schools and wish every child had viable alternatives to it. I stand by my former post as one who has seen what the original post claimed up close and personal. I graduated in 1973, so am able to compare the dates realistically.

[Miss_Sara]

here in California, I JUST got outof highschool
a lot of those ARE true
youre lucky you have'nt had those experiences!

and with failing English
I live in Southern California
my gosh is it ridiculous how many kids know NO english at all
and I live in an expensive area, they lie about their address to get in here.
If they fail English, they are let off because they don't speak English.

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I graduated high school in 2002 and I have a 16 year old sister who is currently in high school so I can attest that this is definately the way it is in Alabama, too. Yes, some of them may be somewhat exaggerated, but it is a reality that today's society is not as safe as it was in the 70s.