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God Cipher
Brooklyn, NY · 2 months ago

I never got hit by a teacher or staff that's a lie

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irishstarlite
Bradenton, FL · 2 months ago

the pledge of allegiance every morning with the American flag hung proudly in every single classroom AS IT SHOULD BE

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SDH 53
Morrison, CO · 2 months ago

This actually happened in the 50's and the 60's , the 80's & 90's didn't have do any of this

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Joe Hanson
2 months ago

That was a genuine, good old days

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Margaro Senquiz
Cleveland, OH · 2 months ago

every morning we pledge of allegiance to the flag in class at homeroom

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Hope Strohl
Woodbridge, VA · 2 months ago

Ya missed one......we can read a wall clock!

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Margaret Guadagno
Berea, OH · 2 months ago

What about, learning to type on a manual typewriter

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Rick Asby
Madison, VA · 2 months ago

all of this was in the 60s and 70s. But I doubt the 90s and not as much even in the 80s

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Joshua Hillstrom
Cherokee Village, AR · 2 months ago

i miss those days and i did all that shit 💩😁

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trakkrr
Atlanta, GA · 2 months ago

we had morals and respect something this generation knows nothing about

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Mama More321
Lacey Township, NJ · 2 months ago

we had home economics where every boy n girl learned how to cook n clean up n to sew! we had typing class n learned shorthand to take notes! Everyone in my elementary school from 1st to 6th grade was in chorus n drama n participated in every concert n school play in some role either on stage, behind stage or after school making props n scenery! We brown bagged lunch!

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thatF4iGUY 91
2 months ago

no school shootings , teachers that actually gave a fuck about the kids they where teaching , pencil dispenser at the main hall if you didn't have a pencil they where 50 cents , lunch time was our break time from everything and to socialize with our everyday friends and to plan what we where going to do after school ....

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R & G diy ideas
Atlanta, GA · 2 months ago

writing on the blackboard 1 long sentence about a 100 x as to not to be loud or disruptive while in class

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Fred
Palmyra, VA · 2 months ago

Gen X 1976 here and I remember all of this.

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Marybeth Price
Van Buren, AR · 2 months ago

THOSE CHOCOLATE BARS WERE THE BEST!!

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Edward Childers
Detroit, MI · 2 months ago

Sex Ed and Driver's Ed

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Cassy
Clearlake, CA · 2 months ago

pledge of elegance, theather ball, detention, hall guards

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Karen Logan
Stockton, CA · 2 months ago

80s and 90s??? You had to be tough in the 50s and 60s!

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Tina G
Merced, CA · a month ago

the teacher asking the students how many were eating hot lunch in the cafeteria, the teachers calling it in to the office. so the cafeteria ladies would know exactly how many students to cook for.

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Dan Myers
Savannah, GA · 2 months ago

Pledge of Allegiance, handkerchief check, comb check, fingernail check, recess, abc'a, times tables, reading out loud, polio vaccine, tuberculosis vaccine scar, getting measles, getting chicken pox, getting mumps, safety patrol,

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Daniel
Little Rock, AR · 2 months ago

sniffing the ink every time they hand outs came, the pencil sharpeners that were always too close to the wall, getting picked to clean the erasers after class, those annoying announcements for getting called to the office over the loudspeaker. damn lockers that didn't want to open half the time and when they did the door would rattle, those chairs that you're connected to the desk and you couldn't move around this horrible summer days of spring fever and your head bobbing around because you were trying to stay awake smart ass teachers that would insult you in front of everybody

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David Helfrich
2 months ago

I've seen kids physically thrown out of class ,had my own desk moved to the hall for months because the school didn't know how to handle my adhd😂,and being sent to summer camp by the school that same year to give them and my mom a break. oh and yes I was in trouble there too😂. schools back then weren't afraid to mold students into a newer kid like working with hard clay some took more than others ,but they weren't scared to address it. the schools now are to afraid of the bull💩 and what someone can say instead of showing them the real way people should act. if we were reprimanded by the school you most definitely were reprimanded again when you got home . now the kids are coddled and pushed through the system so they're not the schools issue. when did we get to soft and scared to raise leaders instead of giving everyone a trophy.

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Annette Ybarra
Orlando, FL · 2 months ago

We had and did all this in my time. however, we had respect for whatever we had. We respected our teachers. We found books just fine using the files/cards. We took a ball to the face once in a while. if someone hit us to hard and we felt we had to get even..we took it to a sandbox and wrestled a bit. We never ever used guns or thought about it. The tests were just fine and I bet most kids nowadays couldn't answer them with the use of cell phones to give them answers. We socialized...in person and really knew each other and our friends family. We had hundreds of phone numbers memorized. now...I only remember my own and 911. We knew how to read maps and knew our city streets. Nowadays?? We drank that water full of gems but our world was not so bad a it is now with all the plastic and crap killing our world. We didn't know the difference but it was ok

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Guy Davis
Laona, WI · 2 months ago

We would get what was called a swat.... It was usually administered using a 3/4 inch by 4 inch board,by around 2 feet long that had holes drilled in the end of it four less wind resistance!! it was brutal,, but, you did not mess around in that class again!!!

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JakkFrost
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

I was there🥶

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Robin
2 months ago

😆😆 We couldn't wear anything but skirts or dresses to public school from Kindergarten through 5th grade (1965-1970), finally got to wear pantsuits, a matching knit top that came just above your knees, and knit pants in 6th grade.

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Bojangles
Kingman, AZ · 2 months ago

The Hell you say !

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Expert Roofing
Denver, CO · 2 months ago

I got paddled, fell off the rope, ran around the football field in 12 degree weather in shorts and smoked in the boys room , hah; loved it

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Mark Mori
Jackson, MS · 2 months ago

The Democrats had God removed from school, discipline taken away from parents and trophies for all.

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rico max
Lake Zurich, IL · 2 months ago

I'm so old, I still got ruler waps on my hands 😭

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Any#ofreasons
a month ago

We got away with so much

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Robin
2 months ago

My public grade school sold US savings bonds. We paid on them weekly until we got one paid in full, and got to take it home. The grade school also held Sat. afternoon movies from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, we all walked to school, so everybody who wanted to go on Sat. could. Janitor set up our chairs in the auditorium facing our raised stage, with giant velvet curtains. They showed Herbie the Love Bug, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and other similar, kid & family friendly movies, always had a cartoon reel first. The Moms who volunteered for movie duty had a popcorn maker, with real red & white stripe bags that were sandwich size and 4oz cups of coke. I think you got both for a dime. Funny how it feels like it was just yesterday. We never left a mess for the janitor, never fought with each other, or misbehaved, just felt like big stuff going to the movies by ourselves.

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Nel Cerva
Fresno, CA · 2 months ago

70’s we still got swatted back then with paddle for chewing gum in class I vowed my kids would never get touched in school! Or anywhere else for that matter

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Solomon Grundy
2 months ago

A nun threw a textbook at me. Principal threw me up against the lockers on a few occasions. Had to kneel on a broom for fooling around in church.

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Roslind Kennedy
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

saying that lying pledge of allegiance to a damn piece of material! I stopped that real early, no more !

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shawn B
Yukon, OK · 2 months ago

i got fuckin vaccinated in kindergarten

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Eric Warmbrand
2 months ago

do schools not have water fountains anymore?

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James Smalls
North Charleston, SC · 2 months ago

You ever heard of the sixties and seventies. We laughed at how soft the eighties and nineties would be...

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Ready Redd
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

Standing in front of the class with arms straight out holding dictionaries or science books for the whole class period or getting your ear pulled all the way the to the principal office

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Lawrence Kenealy
Winnsboro, TX · 2 months ago

except for the portable buildings all the pictures were from the 50',60's & 70's. Hold my beer

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Cruz Torres
Houston, TX · 2 months ago

MEMORIES....😂 And Yes ! we did do this in the 80's . A BLAST FROM THE PAST. IM PROUD TO HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT ERA .

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Paul .M.
Charlotte, NC · 2 months ago

all this took place in the '60s and seventies

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ForeverAlways King
Evanston, WY · 2 months ago

70's and below are the toughest.

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Victoria Sanborn
Visalia, CA · a month ago

This was more like the 60s and 70s

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Chad Strawn
New Bedford, MA · 2 months ago

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance 🇺🇸

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Terrence Ryan
Albuquerque, NM · 2 months ago

library card catalog system is the Dewie Decimal System

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Carlos Worrell
Fort Collins, CO · 2 months ago

saying the pledge of allegiance every morning

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Dewayne
Indianapolis, IN · 2 months ago

Corporal punishment was still used in the it's. Personal experience

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rsaunders0129
2 months ago

This happened in the 50s through 70s

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Jose Rendon
Toppenish, WA · 18 hours ago

I remember the foot long hack that was made out of wood and almost an inch thick that our principal would pull out of his right top drawer. three hacks would be given if you were ever sent to the principals office. it was well known and respected.

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Joe Scanlon
Warwick, RI · a day ago

all of these still happen besides maybe the rope and portable classrooms

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DAndre Knight
San Diego, CA · 2 days ago

Being sent home after school with a note for disrupting the class pinned to the back of ur shirt for your parent to sign 😳

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Mike Hagle
Cumberland, KY · 3 days ago

i got hit a few times ,it was that or bring a pink slip home ....no. way , i remeber traperkeepers and paper bag book covers , and trying to get gold stars for reading rainbow , man i was born in the best times if i could go back i would . and new schools was so cool meeting ppl scary but , and going to the malls and parks to hang out or movie theaters . man wow

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Bob Delivers
Detroit, MI · 3 days ago

My third grade teacher Mrs. Turner, my real name this is Bob. She called me to the front of the class and said no. Your name is Robert went down to the principal's office and changed the name on all my records. I tried to get into college and there was no record of me after the second grade

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Ueta Vailuu
Waipahu, HI · 4 days ago

lunch was better😁

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Donald Skipper
Ruckersville, VA · 5 days ago

all of them

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Trisha ann Hellums
Pontotoc, MS · 6 days ago

my Uncle Jimmy Lee collums was a principal at South pontotoc miss. we got paddle many a time by him. he was hateful.

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Mary Miller
Loma Linda, CA · 6 days ago

Pray in the morning at school ...

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Jeremiah Shoemaker
York, PA · 6 days ago

Remember in the morning, we’d have to watch channel one I remember being in class watching. I think it was the challenger one of the spaceships rocketing in to the sky. And blowing up on live TV I loved school.

1.1K Comments

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God Cipher
Brooklyn, NY · 2 months ago

I never got hit by a teacher or staff that's a lie

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irishstarlite
Bradenton, FL · 2 months ago

the pledge of allegiance every morning with the American flag hung proudly in every single classroom AS IT SHOULD BE

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SDH 53
Morrison, CO · 2 months ago

This actually happened in the 50's and the 60's , the 80's & 90's didn't have do any of this

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Joe Hanson
2 months ago

That was a genuine, good old days

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Margaro Senquiz
Cleveland, OH · 2 months ago

every morning we pledge of allegiance to the flag in class at homeroom

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Hope Strohl
Woodbridge, VA · 2 months ago

Ya missed one......we can read a wall clock!

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Margaret Guadagno
Berea, OH · 2 months ago

What about, learning to type on a manual typewriter

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Rick Asby
Madison, VA · 2 months ago

all of this was in the 60s and 70s. But I doubt the 90s and not as much even in the 80s

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Joshua Hillstrom
Cherokee Village, AR · 2 months ago

i miss those days and i did all that shit 💩😁

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trakkrr
Atlanta, GA · 2 months ago

we had morals and respect something this generation knows nothing about

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Mama More321
Lacey Township, NJ · 2 months ago

we had home economics where every boy n girl learned how to cook n clean up n to sew! we had typing class n learned shorthand to take notes! Everyone in my elementary school from 1st to 6th grade was in chorus n drama n participated in every concert n school play in some role either on stage, behind stage or after school making props n scenery! We brown bagged lunch!

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thatF4iGUY 91
2 months ago

no school shootings , teachers that actually gave a fuck about the kids they where teaching , pencil dispenser at the main hall if you didn't have a pencil they where 50 cents , lunch time was our break time from everything and to socialize with our everyday friends and to plan what we where going to do after school ....

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R & G diy ideas
Atlanta, GA · 2 months ago

writing on the blackboard 1 long sentence about a 100 x as to not to be loud or disruptive while in class

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Fred
Palmyra, VA · 2 months ago

Gen X 1976 here and I remember all of this.

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Marybeth Price
Van Buren, AR · 2 months ago

THOSE CHOCOLATE BARS WERE THE BEST!!

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Edward Childers
Detroit, MI · 2 months ago

Sex Ed and Driver's Ed

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Cassy
Clearlake, CA · 2 months ago

pledge of elegance, theather ball, detention, hall guards

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Karen Logan
Stockton, CA · 2 months ago

80s and 90s??? You had to be tough in the 50s and 60s!

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Tina G
Merced, CA · a month ago

the teacher asking the students how many were eating hot lunch in the cafeteria, the teachers calling it in to the office. so the cafeteria ladies would know exactly how many students to cook for.

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Dan Myers
Savannah, GA · 2 months ago

Pledge of Allegiance, handkerchief check, comb check, fingernail check, recess, abc'a, times tables, reading out loud, polio vaccine, tuberculosis vaccine scar, getting measles, getting chicken pox, getting mumps, safety patrol,

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Daniel
Little Rock, AR · 2 months ago

sniffing the ink every time they hand outs came, the pencil sharpeners that were always too close to the wall, getting picked to clean the erasers after class, those annoying announcements for getting called to the office over the loudspeaker. damn lockers that didn't want to open half the time and when they did the door would rattle, those chairs that you're connected to the desk and you couldn't move around this horrible summer days of spring fever and your head bobbing around because you were trying to stay awake smart ass teachers that would insult you in front of everybody

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David Helfrich
2 months ago

I've seen kids physically thrown out of class ,had my own desk moved to the hall for months because the school didn't know how to handle my adhd😂,and being sent to summer camp by the school that same year to give them and my mom a break. oh and yes I was in trouble there too😂. schools back then weren't afraid to mold students into a newer kid like working with hard clay some took more than others ,but they weren't scared to address it. the schools now are to afraid of the bull💩 and what someone can say instead of showing them the real way people should act. if we were reprimanded by the school you most definitely were reprimanded again when you got home . now the kids are coddled and pushed through the system so they're not the schools issue. when did we get to soft and scared to raise leaders instead of giving everyone a trophy.

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Annette Ybarra
Orlando, FL · 2 months ago

We had and did all this in my time. however, we had respect for whatever we had. We respected our teachers. We found books just fine using the files/cards. We took a ball to the face once in a while. if someone hit us to hard and we felt we had to get even..we took it to a sandbox and wrestled a bit. We never ever used guns or thought about it. The tests were just fine and I bet most kids nowadays couldn't answer them with the use of cell phones to give them answers. We socialized...in person and really knew each other and our friends family. We had hundreds of phone numbers memorized. now...I only remember my own and 911. We knew how to read maps and knew our city streets. Nowadays?? We drank that water full of gems but our world was not so bad a it is now with all the plastic and crap killing our world. We didn't know the difference but it was ok

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Guy Davis
Laona, WI · 2 months ago

We would get what was called a swat.... It was usually administered using a 3/4 inch by 4 inch board,by around 2 feet long that had holes drilled in the end of it four less wind resistance!! it was brutal,, but, you did not mess around in that class again!!!

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JakkFrost
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

I was there🥶

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Robin
2 months ago

😆😆 We couldn't wear anything but skirts or dresses to public school from Kindergarten through 5th grade (1965-1970), finally got to wear pantsuits, a matching knit top that came just above your knees, and knit pants in 6th grade.

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Bojangles
Kingman, AZ · 2 months ago

The Hell you say !

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Expert Roofing
Denver, CO · 2 months ago

I got paddled, fell off the rope, ran around the football field in 12 degree weather in shorts and smoked in the boys room , hah; loved it

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Mark Mori
Jackson, MS · 2 months ago

The Democrats had God removed from school, discipline taken away from parents and trophies for all.

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rico max
Lake Zurich, IL · 2 months ago

I'm so old, I still got ruler waps on my hands 😭

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Any#ofreasons
a month ago

We got away with so much

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Robin
2 months ago

My public grade school sold US savings bonds. We paid on them weekly until we got one paid in full, and got to take it home. The grade school also held Sat. afternoon movies from 1:00 to 3:00 pm, we all walked to school, so everybody who wanted to go on Sat. could. Janitor set up our chairs in the auditorium facing our raised stage, with giant velvet curtains. They showed Herbie the Love Bug, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and other similar, kid & family friendly movies, always had a cartoon reel first. The Moms who volunteered for movie duty had a popcorn maker, with real red & white stripe bags that were sandwich size and 4oz cups of coke. I think you got both for a dime. Funny how it feels like it was just yesterday. We never left a mess for the janitor, never fought with each other, or misbehaved, just felt like big stuff going to the movies by ourselves.

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Nel Cerva
Fresno, CA · 2 months ago

70’s we still got swatted back then with paddle for chewing gum in class I vowed my kids would never get touched in school! Or anywhere else for that matter

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Solomon Grundy
2 months ago

A nun threw a textbook at me. Principal threw me up against the lockers on a few occasions. Had to kneel on a broom for fooling around in church.

avator
Roslind Kennedy
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

saying that lying pledge of allegiance to a damn piece of material! I stopped that real early, no more !

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shawn B
Yukon, OK · 2 months ago

i got fuckin vaccinated in kindergarten

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Eric Warmbrand
2 months ago

do schools not have water fountains anymore?

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James Smalls
North Charleston, SC · 2 months ago

You ever heard of the sixties and seventies. We laughed at how soft the eighties and nineties would be...

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Ready Redd
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

Standing in front of the class with arms straight out holding dictionaries or science books for the whole class period or getting your ear pulled all the way the to the principal office

avator
Lawrence Kenealy
Winnsboro, TX · 2 months ago

except for the portable buildings all the pictures were from the 50',60's & 70's. Hold my beer

avator
Cruz Torres
Houston, TX · 2 months ago

MEMORIES....😂 And Yes ! we did do this in the 80's . A BLAST FROM THE PAST. IM PROUD TO HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT ERA .

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Paul .M.
Charlotte, NC · 2 months ago

all this took place in the '60s and seventies

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ForeverAlways King
Evanston, WY · 2 months ago

70's and below are the toughest.

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Victoria Sanborn
Visalia, CA · a month ago

This was more like the 60s and 70s

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Chad Strawn
New Bedford, MA · 2 months ago

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance 🇺🇸

avator
Terrence Ryan
Albuquerque, NM · 2 months ago

library card catalog system is the Dewie Decimal System

avator
Carlos Worrell
Fort Collins, CO · 2 months ago

saying the pledge of allegiance every morning

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Dewayne
Indianapolis, IN · 2 months ago

Corporal punishment was still used in the it's. Personal experience

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rsaunders0129
2 months ago

This happened in the 50s through 70s

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Jose Rendon
Toppenish, WA · 18 hours ago

I remember the foot long hack that was made out of wood and almost an inch thick that our principal would pull out of his right top drawer. three hacks would be given if you were ever sent to the principals office. it was well known and respected.

avator
Joe Scanlon
Warwick, RI · a day ago

all of these still happen besides maybe the rope and portable classrooms

avator
DAndre Knight
San Diego, CA · 2 days ago

Being sent home after school with a note for disrupting the class pinned to the back of ur shirt for your parent to sign 😳

avator
Mike Hagle
Cumberland, KY · 3 days ago

i got hit a few times ,it was that or bring a pink slip home ....no. way , i remeber traperkeepers and paper bag book covers , and trying to get gold stars for reading rainbow , man i was born in the best times if i could go back i would . and new schools was so cool meeting ppl scary but , and going to the malls and parks to hang out or movie theaters . man wow

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Bob Delivers
Detroit, MI · 3 days ago

My third grade teacher Mrs. Turner, my real name this is Bob. She called me to the front of the class and said no. Your name is Robert went down to the principal's office and changed the name on all my records. I tried to get into college and there was no record of me after the second grade

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Ueta Vailuu
Waipahu, HI · 4 days ago

lunch was better😁

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Donald Skipper
Ruckersville, VA · 5 days ago

all of them

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Trisha ann Hellums
Pontotoc, MS · 6 days ago

my Uncle Jimmy Lee collums was a principal at South pontotoc miss. we got paddle many a time by him. he was hateful.

avator
Mary Miller
Loma Linda, CA · 6 days ago

Pray in the morning at school ...

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Jeremiah Shoemaker
York, PA · 6 days ago

Remember in the morning, we’d have to watch channel one I remember being in class watching. I think it was the challenger one of the spaceships rocketing in to the sky. And blowing up on live TV I loved school.