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

1950s - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. 

2022 - Police called, and they arrest Johnny and Mark and 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.

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Scenario :
Robbie won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1950s - 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. 

2022 - Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADHD result deemed  to be positive.

Robbie's parents get fortnightly disability payments and school gets extra funding from government because Robbie has a disability.

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Scenario :
Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1950s - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful  businessman. 

2022 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care; joins a gang;  ends up in jail.

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Scenario :
Mark gets a headache and takes some Aspirin to school.

1950s - Mark gets glass of water from Principal to take aspirin with, passes exams and becomes  a solicitor.

2022 - Police called, car searched for drugs and weapons.
Mark expelled from school for drug taking. Ends up as a drop out.

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Scenario :
Johnny takes apart leftover fireworks from Guy Fawkes night, puts them in a paint tin and blows up a wasp's nest.

1950s - Wasps  die. 

2022- Police and

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 aeroplane again. 

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Scenario :
Johnny falls over while playing football during morning break and scrapes his knee.
He is found crying by his teacher, Mary.  She hugs him to comfort him.

1950s - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing football. No damage  done.

2022 - 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.

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Hahaha,   

Nailed it Bob.

Spot on

  x2, have taken a screen shot

Great stuff.

Very funny Bob, but unfortunately very near the mark. I despair at some of the goings on in society today.

Just because a certain event happened to one person in a certain era does not make it the status quo Craig. What Bobdown posted was just one extreme view of one era compared to another extreme view of a more recent era.

I grew up in the 1950s and there were some pretty hideous things that used to be accepted as the norm back then that would not be tolerated today. Likewise, there are some things that are tolerated today that would not be accepted back then. What happens in certain eras is just a reflection of societies' views at that particular time. It doesn't make one right and the other wrong.

What made me smile about Bobdown's post was that it was a joke. I cannot believe that anyone would seriously think that every situation in a given era played out that way.

School days in the 50's.

Putting drawing pins in the hammers of the music teachers piano. (to get the Winifred Attwell effect)

Placing a stink bomb under the teachers chair leg. (anticipating the result when he/she sat down was exhilarating)

Dougie Ellingford the English teacher, who was a great bloke who had excellent rapport with us little brats, had a novel way of dealing with kids who didn't stop talking. After being asked twice to do so, a cricket ball that he kept on his desk would suddenly collide with the front of the offenders desk and I can honestly say that I don't recall him ever missing the target.

The headmaster, a chap with the unfortunate surname of C---erill, bought a new car which he parked outside the school, an Austin A30 from memory. A couple of the lads thought it would be a laugh to chain it to the lampost at the rear of the vehicle.

Now, in Winter time it was dark at 4 00pm, so the chances of him seeing it were remote.The object of the exercise was to have some fun at his expense, not to cause damage, however, either in their haste to complete the job or simply not understanding the result, they left a fair bit of slack in the chain. The two miscreants esconced themselves behind old man Phelps hedge over the road and waited.

The result of their efforts was that the rear axle parted company with the rest of the car and, in the resultant mayhem, they had to stay behind the hedge for a couple of hours which, in turn, caused one of the miscreants father calling the cops to report his son missing. (no I was not one of them!)

If I ever got through a week without a caning it was unusual. I recall one instance (I will never forget it) when my good mate and I decided that a days fishing would be a much better option than school.We were returning over the footbridge that led to the beach, when we saw the little Austin 7 outside  my house. school inspector drove an Austin 7 so we knew what was in store. I should say here that this was far from the first time we had done this.

The following day we were in front of the head and were subjected to the usual pep talk which was followed by six strokes on each hand with a whippy quarter inch willow switch. We ended up in the washroom with our hands under the tap trying to stem the tears. It backfired on him to a certain extent because we couldn't hold a pen and had to be sent home. I would have been about twelve at the time and recall that father when told of the punishment simply said, 'That will teach you not to do that again".

Barbaric you say? Yes to certain extent, I guess it was but it had the desired effect. I would never recommend this treatment in this day and age but it seems to me that some form of discipline is needed with modern day offenders in society, we are imho, far too lenient and the culprits know this and take full advantage of it.

Would I go through my schooldays again? At the drop of a hat!!!