GOOD HOME SECURITY SYSTEMS : GOOD HOME

SCHOOL -1960 vs. 2010

Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1960 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2010 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1960 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2010 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1960 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2010 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1960 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2010 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1960 – Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2010 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1960 – Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2010 – Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1960 – Ants die.
2010 – BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, 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.
1960 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2010 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

This old house is located on Cayuga Street in Seneca Falls. It just caught my attention–I just loved the look of the old house and had to take a shot of it. At that time I knew nothing about it’s history. I was back in Seneca Falls on 11-9-09 so I decided to go back and take another look at the beautiful old house and to my surprise I realized that there was a sign above the front door (I don’t know how I missed it the first time) identifying the house as the Johnson Home. So now I had something to go on and sure enough I turned up a little info on it, and here it is: At one time it was the home of Justus Johnson, who in the late 1800s was the founder and president of the National Exchange Bank of Seneca Falls. Johnson realized that women did not have much in the way of security as they grew older so he created a trust and donated his home so that older women would have a place to live out their remaining years in comfort and without worry. It was opened in 1898 and called the Johnson Home for Women. Justus Johnson was the son of prominent Seneca Falls resident William J. Johnson. William Johnson’s work on the canal system brought him to Seneca Falls where he married Justin’s mother Angelina Chamberlain in 1855. William eventually entered into the manufacturing of knit goods. He was also elected to the NYS Assembly and later was a member of the NYS Senate as well as a member of the canal committee. There are plans to renovate the former Johnson Home for Women into historically sensitive, modern condominiums. This home is located at 57 Cayuga Street in Seneca Falls, NY.