Things Not Found In Schools Anymore
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Through the years, schools have evolved, with many of the things that we remember about going to school becoming lost to the past. School supplies, technology, or lack thereof in the classroom, and the simple pleasures of just being a student have been lost. This video revisits some of my older videos, compiling them into a longer, more comprehensive presentation. So, please enjoy this compilation of things no longer found in schools.
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Thanks!
Very nice, Joanna 👏👏🙂
The number 1 thing not found in schools today: EDUCATION.
And number 2: DISCIPLINE.
Y'all are both sooooooo right.
And teachers thick leather belt
I wholeheartedly agree with you all
They have gender studies now. Talk about BS! There are only two!
One of the most important things that is not in school anymore is respect.
Man teaching now- they deserve a 100% raise!!!
True!
and recess they go hand in hand❤
Spot on!!!
Holes x paddle = Much ouch!
I remember the morning "Pledge of Allegiance", school cloakrooms, print and cursive writing, Manila and colored construction paper, crayons, crank pencil sharpeners, rulers, chalk boards, library card catalogs, bookmobile visits, pull down maps and globes, Audio/Visual projector, TV, radio and record player moments, designated traditional school desks, crosswalk patrol boys/girls, designated class and hall monitors, books covered in brown paper bag and no back packs, educational field trips, optional lunch boxes, school corporal punishment, gym class uniforms, P.E. square dancing, morning and afternoon recesses, blue carbon copy paper, fire drills, Science Fairs, school open house and plays, band and orchestra, the occasional substitute teacher, the mystery of the teacher's lounge, that awkward visit to the Principal's office, school crushes, that janitorial/school clean up vomit powder, hand written and graded report cards, multiplication back then was known as "time tables" just to name a few.
Ditto😅❤
You nailed it!! Thanks for the extra rays of happiness
What’s your point?
Problem??@@johnp139
@@johnp139remembering those things is the point. we remember them, mostly liked them, and they help to frame that part of our lives.
if you don't remember those, if you came along after them, it's no big deal.
it's just things we remember.
Things no longer found in schools:
Respect for authority
Respect for your teachers
Common sense
The ability for kids to think on their own
Individualism
Dressing and acting like a human being
Accountability for your actions
Discipline
Government/civics classes
History classes
Home-making
Life skills like how to balance a checkbook
English grammar & spelling
Respect needs to be EARNED!!!!
Respect for Authority, Teachers, Discipline, and Accountability were replaced with Alternative "aka Special/Behavioral" Schools, Zero-Tolerance, School to Prison Pipeline, and even too many bullies to mentally unstable students
Common sense, ability for students to think for themselves, even individualism is dead and replaced with control and authoritarian/totalitarianism scaring tactics
Dressing like a normal Human being resulted in a Code of Conduct on what to wear and how not to violate it or schools implementing school uniforms
Government/civics aren't really being taught in person outside of Online "because budget reasons"
History Classes now are being altered, doctored, photoshopped, removed and just overall censored
Home-making no longer exist
Life skills like a checkbook no longer exist because of Credit Cards and Smartphone and smartwatch Wallets like Google Pay and Apple Pay
Economics Classes kind of don't exist either so no tax and budget management learning for you, just spend spend spend till you go into bankruptcy and become homeless and end up in poverty
English grammar and spelling were replaced with street slang words and skibidi toilet ohio language or just overall being illerate in speaking and reading
Depends on these modern, woke, teachers.
Nobody uses checks anymore.
@@Drew-bc7zj just curious, i went to school in the 60's and 70's, but what in the world does it matter about ones sexual preferences? seriously, no one cares. and i am considered conservative. as many of those i grew up with, worked with too. it might be news to you, while you've been brainwashed to think that we care, or as were were lied to, i assure you, we just don't. it matters not one bit.
I started Jr High in 1981, in a rural area in Ohio. Back then school shootings were unheard of, and in fact, many students had gun racks in their truck cabins with shotguns and hunting rifles on them, in the school parking lot. My how things have changed over 40 some years...
Making schools a gun free zone is the dumbest thing ever done
@@carolannroberts It's FAR Worse now because of the School to Prison Pipeline and Zero-Tolerance. More Security Cameras, more Guards/Security and Police Officers, Metal Detectors, Time Out Rooms, Seclusion Rooms "also known as Solitary Confinement", School ID neck cards that you can't take home "which feel more like prisoner ID Jumpsuits", Bookbags and Lunchboxes need to be clear, even Alternative "also known as Behavioral/Special" schools are popping up.
I noticed that when I was in high-school back around in 1986 or so. I asked some teachers about it out of concern that the gun was extremely highly visible and extremely close to the back entrance of the school. They got mad at me for saying something . Soon after everyone was mad at me cause they changed the rules to not allow guns on the property. Lots of people told me that I was sticking my nose into something I shouldn't. It didn't affect me so why should I care. I usually reminded them about a time they stuck their nose into my business to get them to shut up. Worked every time except when it didn't.
@@madden8021 sounds like the saying, if it ain't broken, don't fix it comes into play. by your own admission, things are much worse now. to which, i fully agree. i was one that carried guns to school. see, we were actually taught responsibility and self control back then. the reason for this, is us kids used to go hunting after school to help put food on our families tables. my parents weren't poor, but they were far from wealthy. and saving money by hunting and fishing sure didn't hurt. that and quite frankly, wild game is very good for your health. just an added bonus there.
Nj woman here. Woke and proud of it. Who the hell brings a gun to school!!! Jesus. Cmon people common sense. Never thought I’d live my entire life in Jersey but just don’t want to step foot in any of these gun friendly states. No way no how
Common sense, reason, and accountability.
Racism, hatred, worrying about getting drafted
All things missing from many people today
Those things never existed in schools.
Respect, manners, decency, literacy, etc.
@@scaboi Maybe when you were in school but they sure as heck were when I was in school.
I can still remember the thrill every new school year of getting brand new school supplies..the notebooks, pencils, erasers, and whatever other trinkets we could think of that you might need or want. And the smell of a freshly sharpened pencil is definitely one you never forget.
I used to put my new shoes on a chair next to my bed. That way, if I woke up, I could look at them again! 😜
Do they even still sell pencil cases, some of which contained an individual pencil sharpener?
Cursive writing!
When I was in school we had reel-to-reel films, not TVs.
we used to get films from the national film institute that they would play in the library a couple of classes at a time, they were the best, often documentries with a kid focus from all over the world, i remember some of them to this day- there was one about Japanese school kids and their lunch was suchi long before any of us had heard or tasted suchi
personally i still have nightmares about the spelling book we all had though primary school
Yes, I had that all through elementary school. By Jr. High, it was VCR's with a TV.
Me too. Loved those Cornet films.
I remember those all the way to high school, when VCRs took over.
And there was always only one kid that knew how to set it up!
VCR? How about 16mm!
I remember after school in 6th grade we had older movies on the projector with cartoons for latch key kids or kids that could stay that walked. We had popcorn snacks and old cartoons! It was great! This was in about 1968. Remember when things went wrong with the projector, and the film melted?!
Those film projectors!
Yes. There were no VCR's during our time in school, and I remember the first ever BETA player I saw. During our time, it was film or slide projectors, and if you were lucky, you may get chosen to operate it for the teacher who was at the front of the class discussing the various topics.
A trip to the Audio-visual room was a real treat.
How about the old portable record players in the music rooms. Had one big speaker on the front.
I fear that we will one day live to regret our absolute dependence on electronics.
My sentiments exactly!
As a senior citizen looking at everything that’s been erased, especially in the school system, I can’t help but shake my head!
You’re right, they’re going to look back and realize what a bad mistake a lot of this was!
People are usually quite shocked when I tell them that I often leave my phone next to the bed for days at a time, I check my Emails every few days, and have no problem or withdrawal symptoms, unlike many of the Mobile Zombies I see staggering around the roads heads down eyes and ears blinkered down to one point, wandering out in front of cars and bikes, or running with earbuds in both ears, totally oblivious to the lorry coming up behind them. Darwin wins every time!!
The world might come to an end in the next 19 years due to artificial intelligence
@@davedixon2068congratulations. Your comment made me smile 😃
We got hit by a cyclone last February (Hawkes Bay, New Zealand) which knocked all the cell towers and power out, so we never got the Civil Defense warnings.. People and animals died.. Assholes kept stealing the emergency generators from the cell towers..We had to keep putting our generator inside when we went to bed or it would have been gone when we woke up. 9 Days of running off a genny...
We also had the "FILMSTIP PROJECTOR" used in conjunction with the class room "RECORD PLAYER", and who could forget the "16 mm MOVIE PROJECTOR"!!!!!!.
“ And then Noah built the Ark” …..DING ….. And some of the teachers would not pay attention and they would be off one or two frames and frantically search the right slide. 😅
@@st.charlesstreet9876 YUP!!!!!, this is true, many times the teacher would fall asleep when given the task of advancing the filmstrip projector to a student. I remember in the 8th grade, this one teacher showed a lot of movies that year just so she could sleep during class because she was nursing a hangover. she liked to binge drink on the weekends. many times, she would not make it in on mondays, and on tuesdays she was still shitfaced!!!!.
I actually got to use the filmstrip projector, as a teacher, as late as 1997!
@@renegadetenor I am taken back that the school was still using what was becoming old technology. where I went to school, they were still using filmstrip projectors after I graduated. the big difference was , the projectors were now high tech, made by DUKANE, and no longer needed an operator, they were auto- advance, using a record that did not have the famed "DING, BING, DONK" to tell the filmstrip operator to advance the filmstrip.
@@gregoryclemen1870 Ha ha ha, shitfaced.
I’m 66 this year and I never had to carry books in a backpack, we had metal lockers with combination locks.
In the USA, I remember it would have been not "cool" to carry your books in backpack. We had to decide which books to bring home and leave the other books in the locker for the night. In Europe, I quickly learned I would have been considered "dumb" or "brain dead" to not use a "briefcase" to carry ALL my books for the day. Even walked home 4 miles shifting the briefcase from arm to arm, but hey, at 13-15 years old, biceps grew fast !. But then alas, in college, the backpack was purchased. Now, I have to use a backpack for carrying the laptop back and forth to work. 😞
You never had to do homework?????
Or did you just not do it and fail?
@@garblegarble8065 I did have homework on occasion but I would only have to take a book or 2 home at a time, the rest were left at home in my locker. I still never had a backpack back then.
I just noticed that I made a mistake in my last reply. I stated I would take a book or 2 home and leave the rest at home in my locker. I meant I’d leave the rest in my locker at school. A little OCD and had to correct myself, lol.
I'm 61..we had to carry our books on a rubber strap...and the lockers were not the best place to keep things...they were often broken into...
Haven’t watched yet… but I miss wrapping my textbooks in brown paper bags and drawing and doodling and decorating them ❤😅
Damn that is very old school.
Me too
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld it was the best 😅💞
@@johnwright7782... and "Me too" meant something different back then.
And now you can't even find brown paper shopping bags.
Most children can't even read analog clocks. Sad but true.
You do realize the book “Why Johnny can’t read” was written in 1955
Some of them can’t even read. Period.
Yeeep, and I'm one of them, started in the 2000's when I was in Elementary School.
Who cares?
You@@johnp139
In the late 80's I was a hair band rocker chick and I worked in the office for one period a couple days a week. They all loved me in there and our Vice Principal Mr. Ramsey would actually give me the keys to his new cream-colored Cadillac and have me drive around town running errands for him. At 16, all by myself lol..that was awesome!! 😂👍
Today Mr. Ramsey just might go to jail for that.
I think Mr Ramsey probably should have been investigated lol
My sister actually dated her teacher in high school. No problem. I guess my parents thought that was better than dating local boys her own age.
In elementary school we would create murals about topics we were studying-we would take turns adding things. These would later be displayed in the entryway of the school or in the children’s section of the local library. We would have a music teacher that went from school to school, who was usually a surprise to any day that they appeared.
TV/VCR cart? Nope. We were happy to see the cart with a projector on it!
I can remember sitting at a desk designed for right handed students and being left handed, we lefties learned to cope with 3 ring binders where the rings were always in the way unless you took the notebook paper completely out of the binder. Remember the little adhesive circles used to repair a hole in the notebook paper? These things seem pretty archaic now 🤔
the lunch ladies, God bless em! ours really cooked. the ones at our high school were amazing. their cinnamon rolls were magnificent!
they were good to us and cared about our food.
The funny rolls with the flour on the top, now I miss the rolls. Ahh!
@@jackilynpyzocha662 THAT, is where, YOU rolled the fat chicks, before YOU put it into their hairy holes, remember?
@@jackilynpyzocha662 oh yes! so delicious!
HAND-MADE FROM SCRATCH cinnamon rolls and chili on cold winter Fridays. Yes, our lunch ladies could really cook, not just reheat.
Our lunch ladies cared about us & our food too! Since there was a large crowd of Catholic students in our school, the lunch ladies all trudged down to the crick in their white uniforms, aprons, & hairnets to 🐟 fish for our Friday & lent meals! Fresh! I kid you not! 🤓🤣🤣🤣
Things like auto shop, wood shop and metal shop are gone in many schools. Drafting classes, too. Too much computer and not enough hands on classes. When my grandson was 19 he had never used a hammer before or gone fishing. I started teaching him all sorts of activities only two years ago. Boys don't learn how to be men nowadays. Sad state of affairs.
When I has in Kindergarten, we made things out of wood and nails. I made a birdhouse and a very crude airplane. I remember smashing my thumb with the hammer and got a black and blue nail that lasted a very long time. I survived. Learning to affect one's environment and honing brain to muscle coordination is key at that age. There is too much pushing the electronics and computers too early. Most of the time, it is sadly used as a "babysitting tool" and avoiding proper active parenting interactions.
@@toastedtarantula1701 so true. Growing up Dad worked and Mom stayed home with me and my sister. Had a house and a TV and all the modern conveniences for the times. Now, both parents have to work just to make ends meet and, I think, the children suffer.
graphic arts was fun
Kids can’t even boil water. We did wood and metal shop, art, music, cooking and sewing. No choice. Everybody did it. If you like to eat, you should learn cooking basics. I can sew on a button and mend a tear (not well, but adequately). Lousy musician, but at least we tried. Much better than just listening to lectures. None of my teachers did things for us. They just provided the information and materials and let us loose. School in those days was much more fun.
Wood shop. Band.
Respect,empathy,honor, things not found in schools.
This is a study in academia overthinking and "fixing" problems that didn't need fixing. Our schools are overrun with vice principals with Ph Ds making 6 figures, philosophizing to kids that there are no consequences to bad behavior. And we wonder why things are so depressing! Bring back those days!!
Oh, quit your damn belly aching all the time about how great it was when your lunch only cost a buck and whatnot. No one's bringing back shit. Who are you, Robert Dole? Lord, get over the old days. Gone!.....and ain't coming back ever! And vice princ's ain't making no damn six figures, so shut up. Just lookin' for shit to bitch and complain about.
@@tracyisbest
@@tracyisbest It is like YOU say, over and over, Tracy is the BEST ASSHOLE, we all agree with YOU.
The $$$ for getting those Ed.D. degrees is exactly why they get these degrees, which are not really necessary. A woman I know who is a principal told me 20 years ago that she went in public education to become an administrator for the $$$. She retired last year and been paid $200K + and wanted more. The families who sent their kids to the school where she worked all lived at the federal poverty level. I told her that I thought she was overpaid and she told me that $$$ is all because she had an Ed.D. degree. And she really didn't care that the students did poorly in school.
@@kellydonivan6513 FUN FACT, did YOU know, that a PHD, in "Underwater Basket Weaving', will net YOU $300,000, a year, good job.
I remember canned film that had to be threaded through the movie projector.
Ususally, when a substitute teacher had us watch a movie instead of our taking an exam, sweet!
In 71 and 72 our high school had gunsmithing class. Yes guns in our lockers, guns in the halls and guns in the classroom. Never had a incident of gun violence. Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end. Our country has lost respect for just about everything. So sad !
I do miss those days and our country for that matter.
I remember the boys having gun racks with shotguns on them for after-school target practice. Ditto on never having an incident.
What you missed you say? Our youth. We lived during the best times ever. Kids today are lost without social media. Go out and get fresh air before your brain completely shuts down. Thanks again for your videos. Love every one.
The 70's and 80's were the best time!
"They" told us how the future would be so GREAT -- They LIED!
@@wandasewell4501 yea they did 😆
I totally agree! Everything is so different now in schools. We were so lucky to have lived during this time.
@@wandasewell4501 Another thing YOU missed, is that BOOMERS, knew EXACTLY what GENDER, we were, YOU either had an innie or an outie, Boy's were REALLY Boy's and Girl's were REALLY Girl's and there was no confusion, or MENTAL ISSUES, about this. Also, young BOOMER kids, KNEW EXACTLY, which PUBLIC BATHROOM, to use.
Yup
Time waits for no one. It's strange how the things we just took for granted in being normal items of every day life are being replaced by progress. It sure makes me think about my mortality and how grateful I am at being in a particular passage of time with world history.
Ok, I was a little bad, I would take out the card from the card catalog, then return it when(or if) I found the book, in the right location!
I had trouble writing on a blackboard because I am left-handed and would be pushing the chalk into the board. Never had a lunchbox as I lived literally next door to my school and went home for lunch every day. Another thing we learned from analog clocks that the young do not understand today is time like "20 to 10" or "a quarter to 12."
Or 25 or 6 to 4!
@@francisdashwood1760
🎼 Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo…🎶
I'm old enough to remember smoking areas for students. It was only supposed to be for seniors, but I was tall enough to sneak in. By the time I was a senior though they had been shut down all over.
Right, the bathroom stank, I almost threw up!
@@jackilynpyzocha662 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.
My HS school rules did not allowed smoking inside the school property even back in 1972, but kid does smoke outside school property and on the street, but no drinking of alcohol.
My high school had a smoking area too (I didn't smoke). Always walked thru a cloud of smoke going to gym class.
@@saminaneenall that from saying that bathrooms stink ? You have much deeper problems than anyone in the comments section. Let me guess , you are a woke weirdo right ?
I recall all of these things, but I also have fond memories of book fairs at school.
I miss the world before the digital age...thanks for the warm memories💯🤔👍
Says the person commenting on the Internet
😂
I don’t
@@johnp139 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.
@@gustavsorensen9301Using technology doesn't mean you can't miss the world before this nonsense. I like youtube, but I don't like the way tech has consumed every aspect of our lives. Also, just because someone uses the technology doesn't mean they can't critique it.
Square pizza day was my absolute favorite and it was always a Friday. This video made me 😭 and 😂 at the same time. Thanks for the memories.
I grew up knowing the "ditto machine" as the Mimeograph machine.
Ditto and Mimeograph were two different systems.
@@pithicus52 I'm 70 and the only machine I ever saw was the ditto.
@@Hogger280 My experience with the Mimeograph is limited to one time helping to prepare a master. Saw the machine, but never saw it being used. That was more than 50 years ago so my memory is fuzzy, but I recall thinking that I preferred the Ditto.
@@pithicus52 I think it was easier to use but was limited to about 100 copies or less as they faded.
I graduated in 1961. I took the business course in HS, shorthand, book keeping, and my senior year we got IBM electric typewriters, if you bumped a key it typed, what a revelation those were, after using the manual Royals.
Teachers used a mimeograph machine to make copies of papers.
We had a dress code, the boys wore wash & wear slacks and sports shirts, (no blue jeans).
The girls wore dresses or skirts, blouses or sweaters. No jeans or slacks.
The women teachers wore dresses or skirts, and the men wore suits, white shirts and ties.
We didn’t have back packs or book bags, we carried our books in our arms.
This was a public school in a rural area! It was 7th- 12th grade in the building.
There were 129 in my graduating class.
The machines are useless if you don’t know proper grammar, which you clearly illustrate that you DON’T!!!!
@@johnp139 👎🤮
I enjoyed not wearing jeans. I dressed in a tie and white shirt; I was born in Brooklyn NY and when to parochial school when I went to kindergarten in Brookly NY in the early 60s. I was born in 1961.
Waah, waah, waah!!!!!!!!!!!! Dress code was abolished in 1971. Deal with it. Better to be comfortable in the learning experience than forcing everyone to dress like Richie and Potsie don't ya think? Geez!
@@tracyisbest I was just relating to the things no longer in schools. We were taught respect for authority and others by our parents and teachers.
It’s very obvious your parents and the education system failed to teach you anything.
At least we could think on our own, we could write complete sentences, we didn’t need a computer doing everything for us.
What does looking and dressing like a slob have to do with learning. If you don’t care about your appearance, you won’t care about doing quality work.
You’re know it all attitude along with your lack of respect for others is what’s wrong with today’s society.
IT’S BEST TO LET PEOPLE THINK YOU’RE A FOOL THAN TO SPEAK AND PROVE IT!
No desks to keep your notebooks, schoolbooks that had pencils also stored inside. No chalkboard at the head of the classroom. I live behind a High School campus so when I take my 2 dogs for a walk on campus I can see the big change in classrooms today compared to what was like when I went to school in 60s and 70s.
Where do you put your supplies, if any? Remember Audio-Visual Aids?! Watching t.v. as "current events"?! :-)
My grand daughter likes how cursive looks. So she taught herself. I'm very proud of her.
Cursive is very elegant and is, in fact, a sort of technology. It was developed to allow faster writing.
Congratulations 🍾 and all the best to her
Remember stores with cursive signs like Lord and Taylors, Lansburgh's and Woolworths
Cursive hand writing...seems like the words are singing.
@@markgordon8146Consequently, "cursive singing" is now a thing too.
Remember Blue Horse notebook paper?? And zippered book bags? That 3:10pm bell was like getting out of jail!!
Metal school lunch boxes! The paper backs as book covers. The threat of having to go to the "Office" if you broke a rule?! Not to forget, the first day of school's clothes compettition, who had the coolest clothes!
Nice analogy!!
I started school in the early 60s, I miss those days.
1970s
Gen X then, thanks for being there when mom and dad were mad at me and lending an ear and a "I'm behind you big brother/sister". And the go between for each side, it was appreciated. 🙂 @@jackilynpyzocha662
Blue denim 3 ring notebooks! And we carried our books in our arms in the 1960s.
Oh yes!! I graduated in 1962 !
Chalkboards, cloak rooms, the pole to open the windows. The cafeteria, the candy counter and especially smelling the ink papers. Oh yeah, and the nuns!! Some harrowing stories there! But They were the best days in my Catholic elementary school. 😊
mimeograph ink
Remember tetherball?
I had forgotten all about it until I watched this great video..Thankyou!
Now,we have generations that cant even figure out sales tax or tip percentages.
I'm a gen Xer who's not great at that myself, but math was always my worst subject. I just round everything up to the next dollar when shopping and then I'm several dollars ahead at the check out.
I had legit flashbacks when you mentioned the main body of pencil sharpener popping off and making a mess.
Yep same sometimes the pencil sharpener would jam too.
We have one on our back porch and it does pop off from time to time but I love it.
I love the old systems and methods, tangible things, non-instant gratification and appreciation for stuff
Just to add...glad those paddles are gone!!
@@antoinettehowes6964 Your comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose
Yes, I went to school in the 60s-70s. It was an organized, structured education system
as opposed to a breeding ground for corporate-fawning narcissists like we have today.
I feel bad for today's kid's...we had so many little things that made school so much fun..of course, then, we didn't know it but channels like this remind us of the awesome childhood we had! Whether it was at school or home, we were the best generation! ❤😎
And so many things that luckily don't exist anymore.
Does anyone remember the cement under the monkey bars?
Wood chips or recycled rubber chips weren't used under playground equipment until I had graduated.
Or the metal slide, where you risked third degree burns on the back of your legs in the summer.
We had dirt and worn out grass and mud under ours.
😆😆😆
From 1967-1979, I traveled from 1st grade through 12th grade. I remember and experienced most of the things mentioned in this video. It was a blessing to have grown up during this era!
We respected our teachers and parents. There were no guns, knives, assaults in the classroom. Any unruly student was sent immediately to the principal's office, parents were called and the problem was handled. We were taught critical thinking skills, good manners and how to be a productive citizen in society. When I was in 11th grade in '77-'78, a life skills class called "On Your Own" was offered at my high school. We learned how to complete rental & employment applications/resumes, prepare for job interviews; open up checking/savings accounts and how to write a legal check; balance a household budget & apply for car loans and house mortgages. It was one of the best courses I ever took in high school and it prepared me for young adulthood. I miss those years.........
That would have been amazing to have a life skills course!
Yes I remember all of that, to think they were actually trying to prepare us for our future in the real world back then. Life skills sadly something that is a fleeting quality today.
@@frankrizzo4460Unfortunately, “Life Skills” became a course for moderate to severe special ed. kids teaching them how to use the bathroom. 😢
@@CatholicTraditional Another thing YOU missed, is that BOOMERS, knew EXACTLY what GENDER, we were, YOU either had an innie or an outie, Boy's were REALLY Boy's and Girl's were REALLY Girl's and there was no confusion, or MENTAL ISSUES, about this. Also, young BOOMER kids, KNEW EXACTLY, which PUBLIC BATHROOM, to use.
Hard to believe how free we were back then. Riding across town on your bike, with a pellet gun, to go shooting with a friend, able to buy a cheeseburger and fries at the high school, guys driving around with rifles in a gunrack......
I old, even before VHS we had the film projector. Our school didn't have air conditioning, we would open up all the windows and turn off the lights. (I don't know if turning the lights off did anything, but it felt better!)
The best thing about these videos is when my dad puts his arm around me and tells me about remembering these times. From a new age high school kid that gets a few extra minutes with her dad on a busy morning thank you. This will be my Recollection Road some day.
In terms of cursive, there are multiple states right now that are requiring schools to teach it again (especially in California). So yeah, cursive is indeed making a comeback.
I recently read a report about students using cursive writing and how networks in the brain are activated in ways that don't occur when using type letters.
There are several other eye/hand/brain coordination benefits that are being explored in the use of cursive.
One of the benefits that stood out, seems to be that students that used cursive, had better retention of spelling and certain language skills.
Cursive is required in Montessori schools, along with some of these other older things. Those schools are more “analog”.
If it’s in California, there has to be a Marxist reason to teach it.
Let's not forget music class. Singing, percussion, plastic recorders(flutes)..also square dancing
The brand name was Tonette; the tonality was harsh, and I never learned to play one well. I needed more training time than we got.
We would sing songs like Dixie and Marching to Pretoria. Nowadays all hell would break loose.
@joannamcpeak7531 Oh, yes I remember Square dancing in girl's PE class in high school. Hated it because I always had to be the boy sinceI was tall.🤪
@@peggybegin8241 I was lousy at it and didn't like it either.
Music class in the 1970's was one of my favorites...I am so disappointed it no longer exists
I loved the old school days. I started school in late 50s. I often think back to my first grade classroom. Thank you for sharing.
I still remember all my elementary school teachers names!🙂
I would have loved to have been a kid back then. I always felt I was born thirty years to late, and still feel that way. 🙁
@@angeldesigns1385Probably so if you don’t know the difference between to and too!!!
@@johnp139 or maybe I just really don’t care?
1970s
Having taught from 1969 until 2006 I recognized all of the “things” mentioned with fond memories and a little sadness. Thank you.
I know time marches on and things change. But I find this kinda sad. Didn’t quite realize how many school things do not exist anymore. Thanks for this video with great memories.👍
8:19 back in 1985, I attended Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania. And I got acquainted with the wooden paddle a few times… two whacks distributed by Mr. Durant 😂😂😂
Now a days it's all about having a heavy police presence, more security cameras installed in classrooms and hallways, Metal Detectors, Clear Bookbags and Lunchboxes, teachers calling security or the cops instead of sending students to the principals office or a time out room, Seclusion rooms "school version of Solitary Confinement", and a lot of Alternative "aka Special/Behavioral" Schools popping up, School ID neck cards that you can't take home "which feel more like prisoner ID Jumpsuits". This is all possible because of the School to Prison Pipeline and Zero-tolerance policy
Guess that the old paddle is too much of "Student rights abuse" and it also gets turned into a kink later in life is what schools now want to avoid.
Yeah I got that paddle a couple of times my self. To top it off, if I got in that much trouble at school, then I got in the same trouble at home, and I was raised by my grandmother…who came from the silent generation…It was either a switch off the tree, or a yardstick wrapped in duct tape. Lol Jeez-o-pete I couldn’t win!!!
@@angeldesigns1385*myself. Perhaps you should have paid more attention in school.
@@angeldesigns1385You were obviously an insubordinate ass if you got the paddle. Did you ever learn from it?
@@johnp139 no, I’ve done pretty well for myself. Where has your education taken you in life?
OMG this was the absolute best 15 minutes of my day!!!
I fondly remember All of this. We still have a Bulldog pencil sharpener and use it. The smell of mimeograph ink-ahhh! I loved working in the library reshelving the real books! You have outdone yourself this time. Thank you so much for bringing me all these precious memories!!
Manual pencil sharpeners work just fine. You just have to know how to correctly use one. You have to spin the pencil in one hand while turning the handle of the pencil sharpener in the other to ensure all sides get sharpened equally. Just like manual transmissions work just fine. As long as you put in the time and effort to learn how to use them.
There are so many things that do not exists from the 60's schools. One of the things we had in our rural, country and small town schools was shooting teams. Many schools taught Hunter's Ed in the class room and then to the outdoor range for air rifle and 22LR shooting. The slightly wealthier schools even had a skeet and trap shotgun range. Competitions between schools was similar to track meets, for often, several schools competed at once.
Along with shooting and during the fall/winter, most everyone had a shotgun or rifle in their truck or car, and after school, many went hunting for an hour or so before going home for supper and homework. Most everyone carried a pocket knife in school, and no one ever had a knife fight let alone a shooting.
People were just much more disciplined, moral and respectful then.
Were the females included?
@@lindac6919 Absolutely. Classes were coed, but the shooting teams were like other sports, segregated based on sex.
I miss jean covered notebooks. Can’t even find them anymore. Use to decorate those as well.
I used to have the Levi's notebook with the pocket on the cover!
I am amazed how many people don't how to write anymore.
I wonder... if they don’t learn cursive writing then are they able to read it?
@delftblue8801 Good question. I have never thought of that. What amazes me is that people of my age, 77, had to learn to write even though we were very poor, and we didn't have social programs of today to fall back on.
They literally can't sign their names. We're almost back to "putting your mark" on documents. Progress! 🙄
@valentinius62 I am 77. We early to learn how to write, but of course, printing can first. In the late 1960's and early 1970s, I taught some older people how to sign their names.
@@johnbethea4505 We know that cursive was a standard part of any grammar curriculum in the first half of the 20th Century. True, not everyone learned it, but not everyone learned good spelling, times tables, geography, algebra, etc. either. Also, some kids didn't attend school regularly for various reasons. For instance, there was a kid in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird who bragged on the first day of school that he wouldn't be there for the rest of the school year and would get away with it. Given the times that novel was written in, it must've been a not too uncommon thing back then despite truancy laws if the author took time to mention it.
When I went to school, it was taught how to be a good citizen and to be a positive part of your community.
Remember the filmstrip projector!? 😂
I liked the 16mm projector better. With such classics as "Donald In Mathemagic Land."
That one also showed up in kiddie movie matinées one summer.
I'd forgotten about so many of these, but they came back, along with the associated scents; most reminiscent!
I know what you mean about the scents 😊
Sweating after gym class, after showering in public. And racing to get to the next class, after fumbling with the combo. lock(in a rush, only) in and out of gym class?!
@@jackilynpyzocha662 Do YOU remember, when YOU broke into the girl's gym lockers, and super sniffed, the girl's panties, until YOU got off?
I cannot understand why they stopped teaching cursive.. It's good to know!
I used to want to get into cursive in the first grade. Most schools didn't teach it until the third grade, and a lot of kids took more time to adjust to it than others.
somebody must have cried about it so they had to get rid of it
So they can't read the original founding father's documents. Like the Declaration if Independence and the Constitution
The job I did for about 40 yrs required that I do research at the county courthouse looking up old documents in the recorders office. If you don't know cursive you would be LOST! It got to where I could tell if I was going to have a good day or not just by knowing the time frame I was going to be researching. Some time periods the person doing the transcribing had the most beautiful handwriting... other periods it was absolutely a mess!
probably cause most people type these days... I didn't think of it that people might not be able to read cursive though if they don't learn how to write it
My town's public library still requires people to understand the Dewey Decimal System, as all books are still shelved that way. In fact, all public libraries still require a basic understanding of it, since all of the digital records have that information and it's the fastest way to find a particular book.
I remember desks that also had ink well holes even though they were long out of use by then, in my high school.
I kind of wish I kept my paper bag book covers from the years I drew and wrote all over them.
Desks had built in ink wells way back in the day. I can also remember the nurse coming to school and giving us TB shots the 4 tiny msrks it would leave.
That wasn't a TB shot, it was a test to see if you had it. That's still done but with a different technique.
Radiators for heat, opened windows for air conditioning.
I went to school in Dallas, Texas in the 1970's...at times it was brutal in August...then miserable in December...
When graduated, one 4 story building, 300 students from 1st grade to 12th grade. Yes we were a small town. Loved it❤️
We had K-12. Several additions over the years. I referred to my time there as serving a 13 year term.
Things like the Dewey Decimal System, card catalog, and book-filled libraries seem obsolete. Modern technology has certainly made information much faster and easier to access. But one thing this tech will not teach students is PATIENCE. People have come to expect instant answers and gratification. When they have to wait, even briefly, many tend to become frustrated and throw a tantrum. True growth and development as a person is more than just getting the info.
No, if I want a book at the library I still need to use the Dewey decimal system.
@@johnp139 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.
You tagged the wrong person.
You owe him an apology for your wrongful attack.@@saminaneen
@@lindac6919 It's enough niggaz n here 2 make a Tarzan movie😂😅 Paul Mooney is a genius
@@lindac6919 It's enough niggaz n here 2 make a Tarzan movie😂😅 Paul Mooney is a genius
When I was in school, we didn't have VCR's; we had film strips with a record that had to be synchronized with it or we had 16mm movies.
I didn’t ever see a TV on a cart when I was in school. I didn’t see a 16mm film in class until I was in high school. We read books and did worksheets that were run off on a mimeograph machine, and you could smell the chemical that was used on the paper. When I was in elementary school I knew kids that didn’t have a television set in their home. Sometimes they would come over to my house just to watch Saturday morning cartoons and Howdy Doody.
Typewriters, computers, report card and snow days, yes!
In the 60's I was the milk monitor for my school. I was let out early from class where I took a cart full of chocolate and white milk in small cartons around to each classroom in the morning and delivered orders of milk. Then again at lunch I set up my cart at the door to the lunchroom and sold milk for2cents per box which i then turned into the school. Then in jr high and high school I was a hall monitor.
A VCR ! How about a projector.
Chalkboards. Ceiling fans. Chalk. Overhead projectors. A/V cart. Transparencies. Card catalogues.
Your video brought back so many memories..I miss those days so much. I'd love to go back in time . .Thanks for the wonderful videos. 📚 ✏️ 💼
The sensory experiences (the smell of pencils after sharpening, turning and pointing on the globe, the smell of new books, using chalk on the board, etc) have disappeared, leaving a sterile atmosphere of bookless classrooms, sissified gym classes, processed food (remember lunch lady peanut butter cookies?), and learning cursive writing. How sterile are the days of kids in rooms full of screens! They hold their pens and pencils in such odd ways. I feel so sorry for them. And I think many of them could use the "board-of-education" on their backsides when they need it (because they aren't getting it at home).
The smell of tempera powder paints.
@@delftblue8801 The smell of USED tampons, in the boy's bathroom, so turns me ON.
@@delftblue8801 The great smell, and taste of girl's used tampons, in the girl's restrooms, brings back great memories.
When I was in first grade, 1995-96 one week our assignments were printed with the ditto machine while the only photocopier in the school was down for repairs, I remember a lot of the things mentioned, except for the smoking in the teachers lounge was a thing of the past.
When you say "everything is available with just a few clicks on a keyboard" you ain't kiddin!
How about substitute teachers? Day off of scheduled activities. Snow days(I live in the Northeast)! 1970s-80s!
I find it almost unfathomable to not be able to read an analog clock. SMH
Like the kids that have wristwatches on, you ask them what time it is. They have to pull out their cell phone to tell you.
Indeed, with the phone you don't much need a wristwatch.
5yo me was quite frustrated with numbers in kindergarten: I'd learned to count to twelve off a clock. Teacher ordered me to stop at ten. "Come on! I know there's more!"
''you can't rely on your calculator, it won't always be with you''
Being accused of cheating because you used a calculator: you had to know the math, to use the calculator!
Yes. It's real fun teaching kids who don't know their times tables, ratios, exponents, positive and negative integers etc. algebra or chemistry. Calculators and "smart" phones are useless to them in real time. 🙄
So in college they merely cheat, largely by getting copies of tests beforehand from fellow fraternity brothers or sorority sisters who are TAs.
They didn't see smartphones coming 😂
Velcro? What's Velcro? How about the first aid room in elementary school with a nurse on duty? Pencil boxes with sharpeners and ruler on the slide cover. Remember the AV cart rolled into 6th grade class and watching Alan Shepard take off in Freedom 7. Marble and Jack tournaments in school. School assemblies at Christmas where each class put on a play or sang Christmas carols. Halloween carnivals at school, 6th grade camp! Teachers that were vets from WWII who knew their stuff!!!
Tie-dye and macrame classes, lol
All of the above!!🥹
What??
@@johnp139 what, what?
I didn't have velcro in school. Just Elmer's Glue, which would give me headaches, when I would use it, not sniff it!
Speaking of respect, ... As a student in 8th and 9th grade in Belgium (Europe), we had to queue outside the classroom and be given permission by the professor to enter prior to the class starting. We addressed our teachers as "Madam, Mademoiselle or Monsieur". Should we need to enter after the class started, we would knock and wait to be granted permission to enter. For lunch, we were served by women attendants family style at tables of eight students (same students every day). We were prepared proper food which consisted of 3 courses: soup, main meal and dessert and shared a liter of low alcohol beer split between 4 students (1 cup each). They used proper plates, silverware and glasses. Lunch took an hour with time for the food to settle. During some morning gym sessions, we ran around the cafeteria building and could smell the home cooked soup being prepared with the steam coming out and I would get hunger pangs ! This was at a public school.
What a cultural difference. In Japan, they all line up in courtyard and do morning exercises before entering the building. All schools have uniforms.
Getting up early to find out if school was cancelled, I grew up(mostly) in Monson, Massachusetts, lots of snow! Day off, to catch up on any missed homework, after shovelling snow, cross-country skiing, lunch, and relaxing!
This is sad to me. I was an educator for 40 years, retired in 2017. All of these things I remember, when our children were being educated, were respectful and eager to learn. I worry about what my great-grandchildren are learning...or should I say not learning today. Thanks for the memories.
Ahhh the good old days. I remember all these things. The kids these days have it easy. I bet if you asked a kid these days to find a country on the globe for example, none of them could. Thanks for the video, they are always interesting
Once I forged my mom’s signature…
But I got caught
She had perfect penmanship…I didn’t…
Me too…also because I used an orange felt tip marker. Then green over that. Who was I trying to kid, lol?
@@kellygreene6752 very funny.
My mom had perfect penmanship, too, which I struggled for years to imitate. When she died, my dad had me forge the card for the safe deposit box. The bank never questioned it.
@@starababa1985 oh wow
@pattyoconnell1953 LOL that reminded me of my son when he was a freshman in high school. He dropped his notebook as he was leaving and I picked it up for him. It had fallen open to a whole page of "my" signature. I remember saying Don't even think about it!😂
LOL, no tv when I was in school, we had a 16mm movie projector instead.
Windows!!! In every school I went to the classes always had windows, even hall ways had windows, now schools are built like bunkers. The windows had shades that could be drawn if the class was watching a film. Back then, there were projectors with a screen in front of the class, no TVs. There was always one or two students who knew how to set up and run those projectors for the class.🙂
Schools are built without windows now to make it harder to pass in weapons.
When I’ve been to local high schools in recent years, they look more like prisons and function that way as well
It wasn't only the teachers that had a place to smoke. The students did too.
We smoked out in the parking lot.
Yep. We had a whole quad area for the students who smoked called "The Pit". Most of us wore rock and heavy metal t-shirts and the guys had long hair..oh how I miss the 80's!!
In my high school in the northeast, we called the smoking students "Rats". They wore their winter coats all day long because they could go outside in the cold and smoke. They smelled from the smoke as the smoke smell stayed in their clothes.
@@toastedtarantula1701we called them coat people lol
Don’t remember students having smoking areas, where did this happen?
They’ve taken the fun out of school.. I remember the purple ink, lunch boxes and also the great lunches they made at school.
So old i remember slide shows and actual 35 mm projectors
You mentioned the AV cart…heck, I remember reel to reel projectors! Ah, the ‘70s!
In the 60’s
My high school had a smoking area. 1964-1968 Asbury Park High
Asbury Park NJ
We had a smoking area in the 1980s.
Since they took discipline out of schools things have gotten a lot worse.
Took discpline out of the home too.
It was replaced with the School to Prison Pipeline, more police presence, security cameras, metal detectors, Time out rooms, Seclusion rooms, School ID neck cards that you can't take home "which feel more like prisoner ID Jumpsuits", even school bookbags and lunchboxes need to now be clear. Yes, even more Alternative "also known as Behavioral/Special" Schools are popping up.
@@madden8021 My kids took their IDs home, you had too. You forgot random locker checks, which for me I felt was a violation of my child's civil rights.
And when you go to the voting booth....always remember who "they" are.
@@thebackrooms7511too? Did you ever go TO school???
5:30 overhead projectors were so popular in my day
It is funny that I was at the ymca and kids had gym class wearing their regular clothes. I asked the gym teacher about it and he said they don't do that anymore. Wow!
Failed to mention RESPECT…😮
Respect is EARNED!!!!
@@johnp139I'd say disrespect, not respect, is earned.
@@johnp139 When you are struggling, whether it’s problems at work, low self-esteem, conflicts in your relationships, etc., it feels much better to funnel your negative energy into blaming someone else than to confront your own role in your problems. A lot of people, like YOU join hate groups because it allows them to funnel the blame for all of their problems into another group of people while being supported by a group of people who share their beliefs and make them feel like they belong.
RESPECT by Aretha?
@@glennso47 YOU need to bow down and kneel, before yo boy, Klaus Schwab, of the World Economic Forum, where You slaves, will eat ze bugs, and be happy, and be a Burnout all day long.
Film Strips ...
I can understand dodgeball getting banned….i was that really tall strong kid in 6th grade, 6’ , and I would through the ball in the opposite direction than I was looking. More than once I clocked girls upside the head, knocking them straight onto the blacktop, and it was because I was twice their size and had no idea exactly where that ball was going. The 2nd time it happened I had to promise to look where I was throwing or 1/2 the kids would no longer play. They were going to vote with their feet, so I played nice from then on. Sorry to Mary and Therese, I’m glad you were not seriously injured. Head hitting the asphalt could have been bad.