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(Do You Remember)   Students today will never know the simple joy of clapping chalkboard erasers, making ashtrays, or getting hit with a ball during dodgeball   (doyouremember.com) divider line
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2019-04-21 2:59:04 AM  
LOL! I did all three. Cleaned chalkboard easers in elementary school; made a clay ashtray during summer enrichment program for my smoking father; and I was great at dodging dodgeballs.

On the bright side, I've kept up with events & technology to the current date. So I appreciate both the past and present.
 
Naido [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 3:07:48 AM  
My son went to a tae kwon do birthday party a few weeks ago and I couldn't believe it when they had a dodgeball game.  No one objected after the fact, and the kids (7-9 year olds) absolutely loved it, of course.
 
2019-04-21 3:24:47 AM  
We had the brush vacuum thing to clean erasers. Also used to love the trick of putting chalk in between the layers. By 3rd grade they were all changed out to whiteboards...
 
2019-04-21 3:31:53 AM  
A few of the examples are likely true.  Some are conjecture, and several are verifiably false.
Dodgeball has not been "banned"
Chalkboards are still in wide use
I couldn't see a pottery assignment "make an ashtray", but also can't see how you could ban kids from making one.  Almost everything I made in art class on pottery days was either a paperweight or an ashtray.
Walking to school, bringing cupcakes, open lunches?  All still widely practiced.
"Many classes in school were very gender specific" is an absurd notion.  The quantity of classes that were 'very' gender specific was likely a handful of electives scattered throughout 13 years of school.

/not old
//ok, a little old
///one kid in 4th grade, others in the neighborhood can corroborate
 
433 [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 4:01:23 AM  
I bet they get it on just like their forebears though.
 
janzee  
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2019-04-21 5:13:45 AM  
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Winterlight [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 5:15:05 AM  
We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.
 
2019-04-21 5:15:57 AM  
I believe I lost brain cells trying to read that.  I don't think it killed them though, they just kind of wandered off.
 
Point02GPA  
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2019-04-21 5:16:57 AM  
Laughing when Truman was still Vice.
 
2019-04-21 5:18:20 AM  

Winterlight: We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.


Amazing how much damage that did.
 
Point02GPA  
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2019-04-21 5:23:27 AM  

Harry_Seldon: Winterlight: We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.

Amazing how much damage that did.


H-S...We had paint and maintenance crews even back then.
 
bisi  
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2019-04-21 5:31:14 AM  
Fark whiteboards and double-fark smart boards.
That is all.

/ 35
// no lawn
/// taught college class and couldn't stand the damn things
 
2019-04-21 5:34:30 AM  

Winterlight: We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.


We still had one at my school in the 90s.
 
2019-04-21 5:40:50 AM  
I know for a fact Colorado high school kids will never experience the godawful bullshiat we used to have to go through to get a bag of weed during those weird times when nobody could pull anything off and this guy was out, that one friend's guy was out of town, whats his face quit selling, and then you had to just drive to Boulder and wing it on the hill or start hitting up 3rd tier friends just to get a bag of dirt shiat shwag weed.
The crap we used to have to go through to get good weed compared to now is just... wow.  I pay taxes for weed.
 
thisispete  
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2019-04-21 5:42:37 AM  
Also some experimental campanology when you were designated the bell ringer for the day.
 
Point02GPA  
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2019-04-21 5:55:27 AM  
Back in my day, the 9th Marines, on Oki, was still having revelry sounded, with a bugler, 64-65.
 
KIA  
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2019-04-21 5:55:57 AM  
Kids these days NEED to get hit by a dodgeball.  They need to know they are not, in fact, any better than any of their fellow students.  They are not immortal, super-fast superheroes.

There is no calibration anymore.  Every one of the kids think they know everything and can do everything perfectly with no effort.

BONK!

You're out.  Sit down.
 
2019-04-21 6:01:46 AM  
Sixteen Things Kids Did In School In The '80s

#5: "So here's a photo from the 50s."

/home ec and shop were open to either gender, although they seemed to populate single-gender anyway
 
2019-04-21 6:04:35 AM  

KIA: Kids these days NEED to get hit by a dodgeball.  They need to know they are not, in fact, any better than any of their fellow students.  They are not immortal, super-fast superheroes.

There is no calibration anymore.  Every one of the kids think they know everything and can do everything perfectly with no effort.

BONK!

You're out.  Sit down.


They'd just sit there playing with their smart(?) phones, no shame at all at being taken out of the game.
 
PunGent  
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2019-04-21 6:08:18 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: Sixteen Things Kids Did In School In The '80s

#5: "So here's a photo from the 50s."

/home ec and shop were open to either gender, although they seemed to populate single-gender anyway


My old junior high, everyone took both...and both were useful.  You can be fine not remembering which general did what in the Civil War, but knowing how to do your own laundry and swap out an electrical socket were both useful life skills.

/made a really crappy ashtray in pottery class, can't remember if it was assigned
 
Point02GPA  
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2019-04-21 6:11:30 AM  
KIA...read ur bio. Will use ur fav book list. I have a friend who will read cereal boxes. I enjoy buying her good material...THANKS.
 
God--  
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2019-04-21 6:14:37 AM  
Several schools in my area have gun ranges and rifle teams...
 
2019-04-21 6:19:25 AM  

PunGent: ArcadianRefugee: Sixteen Things Kids Did In School In The '80s

#5: "So here's a photo from the 50s."

/home ec and shop were open to either gender, although they seemed to populate single-gender anyway

My old junior high, everyone took both...and both were useful.  You can be fine not remembering which general did what in the Civil War, but knowing how to do your own laundry and swap out an electrical socket were both useful life skills.

/made a really crappy ashtray in pottery class, can't remember if it was assigned


Yeah, I regret not taking Home Ec. Much more worthwhile than Metal Shop.

/and, hell, even Wood Shop
/learned more working alongside my dad than school taught me there
 
2019-04-21 6:24:27 AM  

Winterlight: We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.


Did that include tobacco?
 
2019-04-21 6:33:24 AM  

Winterlight: We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.


Here too. If not, the bathrooms would been full of smoke. You could smell the smoke from the teachers lounge halfway down the hall.

Never made an ashtray. (was always trying to get my dad to stop smoking.)

Did have my best friend hospitalized in a dodge-ball indecent. (well, ER and stitches in the back of his head anyway)
 
aagrajag  
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2019-04-21 6:34:37 AM  

Dave and the Mission: A few of the examples are likely true.  Some are conjecture, and several are verifiably false.
Dodgeball has not been "banned"
Chalkboards are still in wide use
I couldn't see a pottery assignment "make an ashtray", but also can't see how you could ban kids from making one.  Almost everything I made in art class on pottery days was either a paperweight or an ashtray.
Walking to school, bringing cupcakes, open lunches?  All still widely practiced.
"Many classes in school were very gender specific" is an absurd notion.  The quantity of classes that were 'very' gender specific was likely a handful of electives scattered throughout 13 years of school.

/not old
//ok, a little old
///one kid in 4th grade, others in the neighborhood can corroborate


Chalkboards are farking horrible. The dust gets everywhere.
 
Hyjamon  
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2019-04-21 6:40:39 AM  

bisi: Fark whiteboards and double-fark smart boards.
That is all.

/ 35
// no lawn
/// taught college class and couldn't stand the damn things


you were not supposed to stand on them.

#TeamWhiteBoards #NoChalkOnPants
 
basicstock  
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2019-04-21 6:42:05 AM  
I was in charge of making copies for a couple of teachers in grade school and remember liking the smell of the fluid used for the gestetner hand crank copy machine.
 
Hyjamon  
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2019-04-21 6:43:43 AM  

God--: Several schools in my area have gun ranges and rifle teams...


while several other schools have become gun ranges...

/too soon
//too soon to biatch about kids with holes in their genes
third slashy didn't get their GED
 
res_nihil  
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2019-04-21 6:55:02 AM  
No mention of swapping dirty magazines with other kids in the days before everyone had internet access.
 
Gulper Eel  
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2019-04-21 6:55:02 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: Sixteen Things Kids Did In School In The '80s

#5: "So here's a photo from the 50s."

/home ec and shop were open to either gender, although they seemed to populate single-gender anyway


My home ec teacher (mother of god.jpg).

She had this table with an angled mirror over it, that she'd use for culinary demonstrations, and every so often, when the mirror angle was right, you could see down her I'll be in my bunk.
 
2019-04-21 7:05:02 AM  

davidphogan: Winterlight: We had a smoking area for students in my high school. In the '80s.

We still had one at my school in the 90s.


Same for mine, late 90s. Smoking was the back loading dock, the senior lounge had formally been a smoking lounge as recently as 1991.

Chalkboards were all we had. Never saw a whiteboard until college, and those had profs biatching like crazy.
 
2019-04-21 7:08:48 AM  
Complaining about the kids today is a hobby solely belonging to the profoundly stupid.
 
2019-04-21 7:34:11 AM  

thurstonxhowell: Complaining about the kids today is a hobby solely belonging to the profoundly stupid.


The younger generation has been going to the dogs since Cain and Abel had their little tiff.
 
SBinRR [OhFark]  
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2019-04-21 7:34:46 AM  
I went to elementary school in the 70's and it was understood you gave every kid a Valentine card.  You just gave the kids you didn't like as much one of the generic cards from the box.

Classes weren't gender specific for us either.

Dodge Ball was banned at our high school when we were there.  One student that was being scouted by a couple major league teams due to his 90 mph fastball nailed a kid in the head, causing his head to bounce off the bleacher wall and dropping him like a sack of potatoes.  Diagnosis: Concussion.
 
envirovore [OhFark]  
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2019-04-21 7:44:58 AM  
We had a teacher that would chuck erasers at your head if you weren't paying attention in class.
 
GregInIndy [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 7:45:44 AM  
Chalkboards sucked. Sorry.

Overheads were/are where it's at.

And a teacher or presenter who can clearly explain concepts and ideas without a computer, with nothing more than a set of colored sharpies, some transparent film, and zero PowerPoint slides to read from and bore an audience to tears with? That is a person who knows their shiat.
 
Katwang  
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2019-04-21 7:48:50 AM  
Class of '84 here. Lived in a town that borders Wisconsin. The drinking age there was 18, Seniors had open campus. Afternoon classes were never productive affairs.
 
GregInIndy [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 7:52:13 AM  

The Reverend Sam Hill: thurstonxhowell: Complaining about the kids today is a hobby solely belonging to the profoundly stupid.

The younger generation has been going to the dogs since Cain and Abel had their little tiff.


I minored in anthropology/archaeology. When I took an Egyptology class our professor showed us an ancient papyrus from the Late Kingdom of an Egyptian king complaining about his son the prince, because after returning from a long time away he asked him "Where have you gone?" and his son had said "Nowhere." When asked "What did you do?" "Nothing."

It was awesome. The parent/child relationship has always been the same. Always.
 
Nocrash [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 7:54:03 AM  
Only goes back to 80's so doesn't include getting beat on hands or back of head with a ruler by a nun.
 
Fireproof [OhFark]  
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2019-04-21 8:11:49 AM  

God--: Several schools in my area have gun ranges and rifle teams...


My high school actually farking added one in many years after I graduated in 2004.
It's just for the ROTC, but still...
 
Ashlea  
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2019-04-21 8:13:32 AM  

Markoff_Cheney: I know for a fact Colorado high school kids will never experience the godawful bullshiat we used to have to go through to get a bag of weed during those weird times when nobody could pull anything off and this guy was out, that one friend's guy was out of town, whats his face quit selling, and then you had to just drive to Boulder and wing it on the hill or start hitting up 3rd tier friends just to get a bag of dirt shiat shwag weed.
The crap we used to have to go through to get good weed compared to now is just... wow.  I pay taxes for weed.


I live in Colorado and my friends and I have discussed this a few times. The crap we used to have to go through for a little bit of dirt shwag....
Now I can order from local dispensaries on their websites and pick it up 15 minutes later, or go into the store and browse all the goods in person. I even have 20+ varieties of flower to choose from. And if I don't like that, there's plenty of other thc infused products. It still blows my mind. If you told high school me that this is what would happen 15 years later, I wouldn't have believed it for a second.
There's a lot of f'd up stuff going on in the world right now, so I'll take my easy access to weed and be grateful.
But yeah stupid article is stupid. My friends and I constantly pick up each other's kids from school and they can bring whatever they want for lunch. Dodgeball is an annual school-wide event. And I'm pretty sure no one will stop them from making an ashtray in art class, but they might get a little side-eye.
 
Fireproof [OhFark]  
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2019-04-21 8:16:28 AM  

Dave and the Mission: A few of the examples are likely true.  Some are conjecture, and several are verifiably false.
Dodgeball has not been "banned"
Chalkboards are still in wide use
I couldn't see a pottery assignment "make an ashtray", but also can't see how you could ban kids from making one.  Almost everything I made in art class on pottery days was either a paperweight or an ashtray.
Walking to school, bringing cupcakes, open lunches?  All still widely practiced.
"Many classes in school were very gender specific" is an absurd notion.  The quantity of classes that were 'very' gender specific was likely a handful of electives scattered throughout 13 years of school.

/not old
//ok, a little old
///one kid in 4th grade, others in the neighborhood can corroborate


B-b-but I need to biatch about how kids these days are too coddled and have it too easy!
/OK, more like "A site dedicated to runaway nostalgia and people griping about kids these days needs clicks."
 
pete1729  
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2019-04-21 8:28:33 AM  
The people who call today's kids 'pussies' for not playing dodgeball should be required to play it with NFL players while their entire social network watches on facebook. The physical differences in 4th grade were huge.
 
Aetre [TotalFark]  
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2019-04-21 8:28:41 AM  

Dave and the Mission: A few of the examples are likely true.  Some are conjecture, and several are verifiably false.
Dodgeball has not been "banned"
Chalkboards are still in wide use
I couldn't see a pottery assignment "make an ashtray", but also can't see how you could ban kids from making one.  Almost everything I made in art class on pottery days was either a paperweight or an ashtray.
Walking to school, bringing cupcakes, open lunches?  All still widely practiced.
"Many classes in school were very gender specific" is an absurd notion.  The quantity of classes that were 'very' gender specific was likely a handful of electives scattered throughout 13 years of school.

/not old
//ok, a little old
///one kid in 4th grade, others in the neighborhood can corroborate


Dodgeball has been banned in my district, and chalkboards have been systematically replaced with whiteboards over a couple of decades here, too. Where I disagree with the article is that it assumes the wrong reasons for the things on its list--for example, saying that dodgeball was banned because it "encourages violence." Nope. It was banned because of potential lawsuits from injuries or broken eyeglasses and such. Helicopter parent with money: "You're telling me you LET a student throw a large rubber ball at my son?! And you depended on nothing more than the aiming skill of a 9-year-old as the reason he wouldn't get hit in the head? We'll see you in court!"

Most of the things on this article's list are potential lawsuits by overly litigious parents. Chalk's the same way, believe it or not. "My daughter has a legally approved 504 accommodation that she should sit at the front of the room, but she also has asthma. So do something about the chalkboard dust, or we'll sue." <-- I actually have some sympathy for that one; I taught with chalk for three years before they replaced our boards, and it is admittedly a lot easier to teach--and, I'd imagine, learn--when one can breathe.
 
RTOGUY  
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2019-04-21 8:38:47 AM  

envirovore: We had a teacher that would chuck erasers at your head if you weren't paying attention in class.


Same here. That teacher would also throw a textbook at you if you were out of hand enough that a piece of chalk wouldn't do it. Nobody complained and nobody sued and if you were hit with something you deserved it.
 
adj_m  
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2019-04-21 8:40:00 AM  
I had to take a first-aid course recently for work and I found it pretty amusing that it was just me and some nice elderly woman taking notes, while the rest of the (mostly 20-something) class just snapped pictures with their phones instead.

The instructor even gave the class extra time to all huddle around to get perfect shots. It was... not a difficult course. I feel bad for anyone I ever have to administer first aid to, but I feel a lot worse for anyone who gets the bad luck of needing CPR from a person who has to look up a picture they took of two short sentences.

/We both finished the final test about 20 minutes before everyone else.
 
envirovore [OhFark]  
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2019-04-21 8:45:22 AM  

RTOGUY: envirovore: We had a teacher that would chuck erasers at your head if you weren't paying attention in class.

Same here. That teacher would also throw a textbook at you if you were out of hand enough that a piece of chalk wouldn't do it. Nobody complained and nobody sued and if you were hit with something you deserved it.


Exactly. "Pay attention then." was the answer I got when I mentioned it to my parents.
 
2019-04-21 8:46:43 AM  
After spending the last week walking through elementary schools in an expensive suburb, I can assure you they still play dodge ball somewhere, so set your troubled minds at ease.
 
dryknife  
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2019-04-21 9:03:25 AM  
i got hit with an ashtray playing dodge ball in the third grade.
Never forget!
 
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