“The older junior and senior-aged kids were allowed to drive the buses on the rural routes.
Here are their mostshockingresponses:
1.
Anonymous
2.
“Junior high,New Jersey, early 1970s.
Girls were automatically assigned to sewing (grade 7) and cooking (grade 8).
Boys automatically got wood shop and mechanical drawing.”
Enrique was changed to Henry.”
“We went on a field trip to watch a cow get butchered.”
“My high school also had a 10-minute mid-morning smoke break.
It was the mid-to-late 1990s.”
francesjoys
10.
It definitely helped teen moms stay in school, though."
randocalrissian
11.
“Class of ‘86 here.
For an English Shakespeare presentation in class, I used one of my real swords as a prop.
I just walked down the hallway to class, blade in its sheath, no problem!”
majorh
12.
She refused to, and it made her principal really angry."
anniemh
13.
As expected, the bomb didn’t exist, but potentially we were expendable.
Not one single student nor parent commented, let alone complained."
We received fluoride treatments at school.
Also, once a year, a nurse would come to the school to check us for scoliosis."
monicaj411ddc5d1
15.
“A carton of milk for lunch costs three cents.”
“This was in 1969.
The 8th grade went on a field trip to Washington, D.C.
It was exhilarating.”
“My middle school in the ’70s required that boys swam naked during swim class.
I still don’t know the reason.”
youngoctopus13
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937kim
19.
“In Central Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis, our elementary schools had drills.
All the students were loaded on buses and taken to a ‘safe’ place.
The safe place was approximately 15 miles away.
My younger sister was afraid she would never see our parents again.
I was afraid that we were still in the bombing zone.
None of it made any sense.”
furrycake18
20.
“During high school, boys had to carry their football or basketball during that season’s sport.
If they had a girlfriend, she had to walk three feet behind the athlete.”
deadpanwolf40
21.
You had to sit on a stool until the teacher felt you were punished enough."
glitterynugget744
22. magicalknight55
23.
This was during the ’60s.
Can you imagine the lawsuit if that happened today?"
SoOverItAll
24.
“Running errands for teachers during class!
himalayall
25. swiftheart83
26. xouielee
27.
“My first country school in the ’40s had an outhouse.
It was really cold in the winter and really smelly in warm weather.”
And finally…
29.
“Back in the ’80s, my elementary school would use fifth graders as crossing guards.
My mind was blown the first time I saw a ‘grown up’ crossing guard.”
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