In Elementary School, you had your own desk. It was YOUR desk for the school year. Your books, pencils, paper would be stored inside. The top was hinged and could be raised to access the inside.
Our name was printed on a piece of white paper (thick like a cereal box) and taped in the upper right corner. The teacher said the student w/neatest, cleanest name board at the end of the year would receive a prize. Don't know how but I won; can't for the life of me remember what the prize was. It was over 70 yrs ago, tho.
I hear you, I love those things and had my name on it too. One day, they just changed it without saying anything and made a weird excuse was ''the boogieman''' did it lol
I REMEMBER MAKING USING construction paper then taped to the edge of my desk lol, i'd use it to hold pencils or other class things. 1980's elementary school through 90's highschool
Our desks had an open ended metal box affixed to the underside of the desk. This seems much easier than having to disrupt what you were doing to get out a new pencil.
One time before the teacher was about to use the overhead projector 📽 I lifted the glass, took a staple from a stapler and put it under the glass. When the teacher turned the overhead on, the staple showed in the middle of our worksheets and the entire class including myself were killing ourselves laughing and even the teacher found it a little bit funny. Then the straight A smart Alec stood up and said “Matthew put it into the overhead!” The teacher then looked back at him and said “OK” as she didn’t care. He was jealous because he didn’t think of that prank himself.
i remember doing math problems on those while in middle school mostly 94 to 97. each student had a turn to solve problems show our work. i think that first time i learned of dry erase markers. it was better than having to walk up to the blackboard still used then too having rest of class stare at your backside. i hated that so much it made me anxious. these would be in middle of classroom and the rest of classes eyes would be on the wall where projected
Covering our books every year with brown paper bags. And then drawing on them to make them our own! All of these things brought back memories of the 60 ‘s & 70’s!
Where I lived we used Sunday comics, they were big sheets, the paper was a little stronger than the newspaper, it was colorful and it didn't matter if it was torn or some scoundrel took it from the book to read what was on the back of the page. page, you just had to wait for the following Sunday.
brown paper bags to cover books i had too until i started high school in 1996. we had sticky kind. i always made sure show my teacher that was non damaging kind. they were easy to peel off end of year and they lasted whole year. i used to have to have help as i am terrible in math esp measuring for the covers. usually my books had to be recovered 2 or 3 times a year. learned how to fold and place on and tape the covers at least. and yes some crayola markers and or sharpies to doodle on. i used to do same thing in middle school with binder system required. we had to have zipper up binders and my sis and i were able pick new one each year because we always put grade year and ournames and drawings those only sharpies worked but was all good. my mom was cool we got to each year even in hs to pick out new jansport backpacks esp wanted different colors and the zip up binders we allowed by mom were the Five-Star brand. we had trapper keeper stuff in elementary. in binders we had our you got it 5 subject college ruled five star brand notebooks and a few folders. an area to keep our planners. we had have parents sign we did our homework in middle. no need for pencil pouches most of my stuff fit in areas made for pens and even a calculator spot they got heavy but carry our books make bit heavier of course we had plenty of locker time so i only carried what was needed. we always up until end of high school had to have a regular 1.5 i think inch binder because in math we always had notebook checks so we had separate notebooks for math notes. those checks counted as test grades which i was grateful for because it was an easy A. math itself was the biggest anxiety stress ridden subject for me i still cry. though i did less crying when taking math class in college.
The pull-down maps had another function. Oftentimes, when returning from recess, the map would be pulled down. Not because we were about to learn about South America, but because the teacher would roll the map up revealing a pop quiz she had written on the blackboard.
The Dewey Decimal System is still used in most libraries and also still taught to a varying degree. It's still taught because when the computerized system goes down, Dewey will ALWAYS work.
The Library was the middle ground that I used to skip school.. We had a Seminar class during my senior year, with that block scheduling leaving an hour and a half of free time, supposed to be used for homework, study time, which wasn’t ever needed the last two years.. So, I would sign out of seminar class, to the library, after quiet time allowed it so, I think that was a half an hour wait.. Then I’d sign in at the library, but left it not signed out ever.. Like I was caught up in a good book, and would forget the time, was the hopes of anyone noticing anything.. Then one day, 50 skips later approximately, my seminar teacher had caught on to my not returning to class.. Told the principal about the incident and I was called down to the office.. Walk was a solid minute at least to reach that office, so I had time to think up the best story I could.. He asks me why I didn’t return to my seminar class and my response was waiting for that question.. I say, yeah, I had some diarrhea issues that kept me in the bathroom, so I didn’t make it back before the bell rang.. It was a seller response, as I didn’t get in trouble, but took it as a fair warning that I’d better not skip school anymore, as they would now be looking for that action from me, like a hawk..
Those were great pictures to remember everyone in your class and to see how they changed. I don't think too many schools even do that anymore. Thank you foe watching and sharing your memories.
I wish they bring a lot of those things back. I remember making my own book cover with a brown paper bag from the piggly Wiggly. Those were great times.
Book covers are another item not really used. That used to be mandatory where I was for awhile. Thank you for watching and sharing another item for us to remember!
I went to school in Mississippi in the late 1970s and 1980s. Even though I went to Catholic school, we got book covers from the state. Occasionally, the power company would print them. On the first or second day of the year, they'd give us our textbooks, and there was a big stack of covers. At the end of the year, we'd pull them off, toss them in the trash, and turn the books back in. Probably the most fun day of the year, since we were done until next fall...unless we had a summer reading list.
So funny us too in Montreal except with ‘Kraft’ paper bags. Btw. Piggly Wiggly store is on an old blues song ‘ Groceries on the Shelf ‘ by Victoria Spivey ( I think) we don’t have the here but I know about them from the song. Lol
@@johngore7744 Piggly Wiggly was a franchise brand, I think, and they were typically smaller stores. They almost completely disappeared for several decades but seem to be coming back, usually in poorer areas of towns and cities.
When I was in middle school my mum knew a kid in my class never had lunch at school, so she talked with the teacher and arranged for her to drop off pre made meals for him that wasn’t obvious to the other kids. I never appreciated it until I was older!
Our high school choral music teacher found free " dress clothes " ( to wear for concerts ) for choir members who couldn't afford them . All kept secret - I only knew because the teacher was a family friend .
Yes. I witnessed many acts of kindness. My father taught 5th and 6th grade for 33 years. Won a national teaching award twice. I saw him do many acts of kindness with no recognition in and out of school.
My Dad bought an old high school library book on physics that was replaced by his high school in 1950. It had "DISCARD" stamped across the check out card. After he died I found it among his old things. Then I nearly died when I saw one of the names, Leonard Nimoy. Dad went to school with him in Boston and knew him.
Man, I loved those Weekly Readers-I also used my allowance to buy a book as well. Sometimes I hid my book I was reading inside my textbook so it would look like I was working on my assignments but in reality I was getting to the good parts of the book so school work had to wait a few minutes longer lol.
We had pencil boxes back in the 60's. It was _The "Flintstones" or "Maverick", "The Rifleman_ " hit TV shows of the times. The same for Our Lunch Boxes. My favorite one was "ZORRO" ..🤗
I went to school back in the 80s and I did not realize most of these items are now obsolete. The school experience must be completely different now. Glad I have those memories.
Many schools do not give grades like we got in school. The school where I teach uses a mastery system. Instead of 5 different letter grades. We have only 3 levels. Mastery, partial mastery and non mastery. Nobody, including the parents like it.
Started school in 1977, the teachers still paddled your behind for bad behavior, and also standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Still wished I had my CHIPS lunchbox!
Those old pencil sharpeners were fantastic! And the only reason they were so loud is because they were always mounted on a wall that was hollow. Didn’t matter where on the wall. Our science teacher had a great time teaching that little concept to us knuckleheads. I have one myself and it still works.😂
I homeschool my kids, and we have one too. 😀 We do so many things the old way. I didn’t realize just how much had changed. Man, I’m glad I’m giving my kids the older experience.
@@Shastasnow I was thinking you were going to talk about electric pencil sharpeners replacing the manual ones, instead of replacing the pencils themselves.
some of those sharperners were quite flimsy though they did job but added to noise. i only used them up until middle school then i brought my own sharpeners.i really used mostly mechanical pencils(BIC brand was the standard) those sharpeners sometimes had issues like one size the hole is blocked and handle wont turn sometimes break the actual pencil. i broke lead a lot writing so i hated to have to keep getting up to sharpen my pencil like ok no you don't need to watch me stare i would give the whole class.
@@Maki-00 it's TERRIBLE! My daughter teaches middle school and when she told me that I was quite surprised to say the least!! They also do not learn cursive! What we should do is get a petition together to cut out a bunch of the stupid state and federal testing that they have to spend so much time teaching two and then doing during the school year! In my opinion it is ridiculous. Especially doing it this year when everything is so crazy with Covid. They still do testing this year with all that school online and missed!! DUMB! (And it's not the teachers it's those higher powers that requires us just FYI in case you didn't now. Sometimes people blame teachers for things that they absolutely have no control over. )
Half of those things are still in my schools - I am a teacher, I will count my blessings that we no longer have ditto masters, those were messy. I insist that my students learn to read a face clock.
My son saved his allowance and chores money and wanted to buy a watch. We went back and forth about analog or digital--I won out. His analog watch is often a curiousity to other kids.
Growing up in the mid 2000’s really made me appreciate the transition I had from a brief time with chalkboards to whiteboards and finally the slow rollout of smart boards which started out on wheels and were quite large, to eventually being slim and stationary in a classroom. We even used the paper projectors on and off. Such a unique thing being able to experience different advances.
As a child of the 70's and 80's I loved walking down memory lane with your video. My favorite was smelling the Ditto paper; especially when it was fresh and warm. Someone would make decent money if they could bottle the scent and sell it to the Boomers and us Gen X'ers!😄
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 My best friend is a tat artist and everytime she inks me I get that nostalgic feeling when she places the purple transfer on my skin. She was homeschooled and has no idea what she missed out on. There's just no way to describe the distinct scent of ditto's warm off the press!
I recall the fresh worksheets as cool & a little damp, with that fabulous smell. I did sometimes take home the empty gallon "gas cans" of ditto fluid for my own projects. I was an introvert loner much of my school days, but never had a bad teacher. I saw little of the processes of school, and did OK, but not so much in math after 6th grade.
The one thing I've never gotten past the love of---analog clocks. I'm getting a very large one for my apartment because I like them a LOT!! I hated school in general, at least high school.
I picked up a GE click radio from 1954/55, damn thing STILL works and keeps time as good as anything. But you DO have to wait for it to "warm up." Lol a thing I haven't seen since I was little with very old b/w tvs in the 70s. Remember the "dot?" It'd be there 20 minutes after you shut it off. Lol
I loved the Schoolastic books you could order. My parents always encouraged me to read. I also worked in the library and was part of the library club. We checked out the books and helped others find what they were looking for. I also worked in the reading lab with Sister Winifred. We encouraged others to learn how to read better and improve their skills. I also worked on the school paper as a feature writer. Fun times!
This is still a thing. There is even a website where you can order from them. I love buying books for the kids, and the teachers classrooms will get benefits if I order a lot of books.
my mom was so glad i wanted books all the time oh yes those flyers i would pick out one paperback and i would look forward to the day of book delivery to classroom. i wish scholastic book fairs were more than once a year like 2x. we had special reading incentive programs schoolwide find primary and elementary that each year end we'd have parent night special ceremony on awards for reading. i miss the family fun nights from primary when i went and then my sister's our parents always took us. my primary school is now apartments. i cried when i found out i really wanted to show my nephew where i went to for first and second grade. sometimes the books i ordered i would keep in my bag for free reading period which super relaxing end of day activity once a week.
@@aliceDarts oh i mean it be once a month for the flyers but each year we an actual book fair cases of books and accessories would be in an area and each class would be called down for their turn to spend half hour looking and buying things with money my mom sent money for those too. we would have no idea what on shelves on the special day like flyers would have names and pics so we had time to go through them and pick. the flyer thing was something handed out regularly in class during day i would look at it and circle items i would like only could get one my mom rule. it was exciting just to get those flyer. i don't need to order any books i don't have any children but when my nephew is bit older i would give him money to order. he is in kinder so he hasn't begun the beginning of reading yet like only 4th day in most teachers try to establish rules and routines teaching kids basics on using school supplies. my nephew on first day of school fell asleep on bus we didn't know he was on bus when going pick up. my poor bug was so tuckered out from the day he rolled off seat to floor and rolled under. when he falls asleep he tend's to do that. it's hard to yell to him wake up he don't even wake up when rolling off. when he crashes he tends to get "night" terrors he don't remember anything but super scary for us adults. he may not hear me but i would say grab leg not hard and say it's alright you are ok. no one left u in car. glad bus drivers have two ways never seen my sis book so fast to get to the school. he was awake still tired not crying or afraid. i can't order from scholastic unless i am a teacher or parent or student and you have to provide info including grade and school name.
I'm old. My elementary school was torn down for residential homes, my junior high has been repurposed as a commercial building, and my high school is now senior housing. My first two places of employment are now defunct. Apparently, I leave behind me a path of destruction......
Or.....maybe you are leading a path of change! I know the feeling of schools and places of work being gone. Not only that but my childhood home is too. Life is full of change but it is fun to look back on some of our memories. Thank you for watching and sharing some of yours!
My first school is boarded up and for sale. The second one was from 1921 and is long gone. Getting older so I know more and more about things that are less relevant. Programmed on a mainframe in college. Most all of the tech in college is in a museum now.
My class was pretty much the final one who was taught to use a card catalog. By second grade, they had computerized. I never mastered how to use it but I was taught
I had no problem getting books from the Library. I'm talking Jr. High and High School. If I needed help, there was always the librarian there for help. 📖
@@Monsterathecat some teachers loved them old is sometimes better I taught in 2017 and used an overhead projector kids preferred it over newer could see better.
I loved hoarding my lunch money throughout the week and buying albums with it on the weekends! I’d walk 2 miles to a store that carried records every Saturday. I was thin AND had an amazing record collection! 😂
Lmao, I remember hoarding snack money my parents gave me, to use in the snack bar. I would usually end up spending it on CDs. This is how I was able to build up a CD collection during my school years, without a job, lol.
I remember all of these things. In my grammar school, most classrooms had an upright piano and the teachers knew how to play it-at least fundamentally. The smell of the Ditto ink was intoxicatingly wonderful. Does anyone remember a reading system with story cards & question cards & answer cards. It had color coded levels. The boxes of cards were usually on a table in the back of the room. It was called Scholastic something? I believe. I loved the stories, it was something you did if you were finished early with an assignment. You could do it quietly. I would hate school today, I'm sure of it. Thanks again for the memories!♥️
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. I don't know if it is the same thing you had or not and I'm not sure who made it. But I remember the reading system starting young with the letters even and there was a whole story that was told about each letter. The teacher would even dress up as each letter. As it progressed to later grades we did have different things added that sound more like what you are describing. I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. I always thought it made learning fun.
@@RhettyforHistory Thanks. I don't remember the letter system at my school, but the reading comprehension system we had, started around grade 5 or 6. The stories were not childish either. They were intelligent and interesting. Some factual, some fiction. The question card did not allow for you to skim the story. We were expected to really read the story through. We didn't get participation trophies in the 1960's. Haha.😉👍 It certainly was fun for me. Unlike math which I had a form of dyslexia about. Lol Oh well.
@@lindaball6714 We didn't play instruments in my grammar school but we did have Home Economics. We learned basic sewing machine operation, cooking, how to rewire a lamp, use tools...things like that. In HS we had all the arts, including drama class. Sadly a lot of schools today have dropped fine arts classes I've heard. That's a bit sad.
This was really interesting! I’m a teacher and I actually also write grades down with a pen and spiral notebook in addition to posting them online. It helps me keep track better.
I remember always trying to get a peek at those old gradebooks, because the teachers didn't tell us our grades until we got our report cards at the end of the quarter. Well, some teachers would tell us and others wouldn't.
i still use a paper grade book also before I enter them into the computer. It's actually faster than scrolling up and down when graded papers aren't in alphabetical order.
My Grandmother, ( born in 1895) taught 1 - 8 th grade in a one room school house. She rode to work on a horse, she put up in a lean-to. And had to start the fire in the BenFranklin stove. She got water out of the creek. In the winter she'd have to take a hatchet to break the ice first. She had to have all of this done before the kiddos arrived. I have seen HER report cards. Proficiency tests. She had to cover over 25 subjects, including Latin, and geometry, geography, etc. She was one smart cookie, she usually scored 98% or 97% proficiency. WOW! I have her Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary she used in the school. It's got a 4 inch thick spine!! And I do USE it!
Wow, hadn't thought about the Dewey Decimal System in a while. Libraries could be like a maze. And the terror of dodge ball or Red Rover! Thanks for sharing these memories.
Red Rover was certainly another game that could be unforgiving. I have to wonder if that is played anywhere. Thank you for watching and bringing up another memory for us all to remember.
I actually prefer the Dewey decimal system. If I was in a particular part of the stacks, and I didn't find the exact book I was seeking, I could browse similar works on the same subject without having to know the name of the text ahead of time.
Of all your videos, this is the one that has allowed me to really feel how old I am. Each and every item was a part of my life. Not only as a child but as a teacher, I have used this stuff. Preparing a class using projectors, or the VHS system was a daily task. I also had to use the flip chart, both as a student and as a teacher! Definitely, times have changed! We've come a long way, babies!
I love the commentary - it really helps to understand how these things were used and sometimes used outside of their original purpose. For example, the book sign out card - 'Sometimes it was fun to see who signed out the book before. Maybe your older brother, or your crush.'
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Seem to recall both methods. After 6th grade, we moved up to what used to be called "junior high school." That's middle school, I'm assuming, for all of the "kiddies" out there who're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. May still go by that name in certain areas.
Rhetty, In the late forties we still had inkwells on our desks, but didn't use them, we used ballpoint pens. Since they leaked, in those early fifties the teachers made us use pencils instead We learned cursive writing but many people today can't read it, which is a sad thing because not only is it faster than printing, but done well is art. My parents grade school autograph books from the twenties and thirties had beautiful example of Teachers and students penmanship. Cheers, Rik Spector
There is an art to cursive and history wise it is a necessary thing to know. So many records use it from some of our most important documents to census records and even family history. I do think it should be taught. I'm a printer but I can certainly read and write it. I wrote cursive as long as they made me and converted back when they didn't enforce it. Thank you for warching and sharing your memories!
@@RhettyforHistory I'm 61 years old, and when I was in school we learned cursive in the 4th grade and used it all the time for writing papers and so forth in school afterward. It had to be legible so the teacher could read it. I was very surprised to hear that it isn't even being taught anymore. Nowadays I mostly print, rather than write cursive, but I still think it is one of those things that should be taught, it's an art our children shouldn't lose.
Wow,. Here it was 1964 when we started to use pens in school ( instead of pencils). Our desks also had inkwells but we never used then. But it was about 3 years till we started using bapllpoints. We started with cartridge pens.
You realize that cursive is now a secret code for us oldsters to use against youngsters. I use antique fountain pens with flexible nibs, to write Victorian-style calligraphy that's REALLY hard for youngsters to read.
We had inkwells and used them. Every morning, that week's ink monitor had to fill the inkwells. We also had those awful dip-pens; basically a stick with a nib fastened to the end. The desks were a reminder of what some kids used the pens for, with numerous carvings from years gone by.
In the early 2010s when I went to high school, that’s when everything started to change and had smart boards in every classroom, chrome books and a lot of my classes were paperless.
I don't think everything in school should be all paperless, but I also don't think that they should go to the no technology route. Paper and technology both have their pros and cons and places in the world.
When you were in grade school did you have a big climbing rope in the gymnasium we had one we had to climb and two stories high and it had a little Matt laying underneath it I wonder if they get away with that now
Just goes to show how long these classroom items were standards. I graduated in 2014 and when I started school, they were almost all still very much used, but as I got older, they gradually fell out of use.
I’m 61 and remember when our rooms could be decorated for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. We had a Christmas pageant and Christmas break. We actually sang Christian carols at school. I also loved my Trapper keeper
We still decorate for the holidays. We’ll have door decoration contests. They don’t do a Christmas story specific pageant, but the chorus still has a Christmas concert each year.
I"am 55. And can remember a Christmas tree in our autorium season cafeteria. Also the same place we did Christmas plays. Also we had Halloween carnivals. I feel I have lived in a different time and not that long ago. When I start school I. 1970. I was 4 yrs old because my birthday is in October and school started I. September. I liked kindergarten because only went 4 hrs. Then found out after that had to go toI 1:30 then I got a surprise at 4 th grade I had to stay until 2:30. When I went to elementary it went from kindergarten to sixth grade and then 7th and 8th went to junior high. Then later they changed where at 6th grade you went to junior high building but they changed name to middle school. I was not a big fan of school. Although I do remember fondly two teachers and one teacher assistant that were really nice..
Me and my younger brother both attended a Catholic highschool. The school's still celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter holidays by the time my younger brother graduated in 2011. The teachers are allowed to decorate their classroom doors, and inside their classroom as long as it didn't impede other teachers using it during other periods (i.e. no decorating the whiteboards, etc.) I think they've since added celebrating other cultural holidays too like Divali and Hanukkah.
You could usually tell how rich your classmates were by looking at how many crayons came in their box. The kids that had the 64 count box with the BUILT-IN-SHARPENER were straight-up ballers! That particular status symbol was like driving a Lambo today! :)
Back to school shopping for my granddaughter consisted of a chrome book and uniforms, both bought off the internet. No special trip to the store for picking out new pencils, pencil boxes, or erasers. No choosing a new lunchbox. It made my old school heart hurt just a little.
That is different. I can't believe she didn't need anything else. I always enjoyed going out and getting all the supplies and clothes for back to school. It was a madhouse most of the time but everything had a smell. The new crayons, pencils, erasers, paper and more. Thank you for watching and sharing your new memories of how it has changed.
@@RhettyforHistory yes!! I looooved getting new back-to-school supplies! I’m still a big fan of “old school” spiral and marble composition notebooks, Bic 4-color pens, and traditional wooden pencils. 💜
That was one of the things I looked forward to. We got our BTS list on the first day (not during the summer as my daughter did) and my mom would take myself and my sister Kathy to Joywin's stationery (Franklin Square, NY) after dinner. The little store was so packed, and we'd even see many kids we knew from class at the store!
I loved August, because that was when the stores started selling school supplies. It was wonderful to see all the new designs of the binders and folders that we could use for school. And the pencil case sets were awesome!
I totally agree with that. I was a school kid in the 80’s (kindergarten-year 8)and part of high school (year 9-12) and a lot of those things you showed bought back a lot of memories eg the overhead projectors, clocks-we had on the wall of our classroom, protractors for geometry. Doing subjects like home economics prepared you for when you moved out of home-it taught you how to budget, even maths taught you that. Today’s kids aren’t taught any of that, what we learnt back then was better than what they do today, you’re right when you say that kids today wouldn’t know how to read time, I wouldn’t be surprised if some o& them can’t read a wall clock cause they are so used to digital.
As an 80's kid, I remember all of this stuff. Although, I remember most of my community college professors still using overhead projectors @7:45 even into the late 2000's.
I had some teachers using overhead projectors, chalkboards and even the pull down maps when I was in high school in 2009-2012 I remember everyone making a big deal when one classroom got a smart board. It didn't always work though lol
My community college has digital versions of overhead projectors which connect to the same projection unit as the computer does. The problem is that the professors are to old to understand how they connect, and the students are to young to know how to use them.
@@itsmefm I was also in high school around this time and I remember this kind of thing as well. When I was a junior, our school got its first smart board. I just so happened to be in the classroom that had it (it was a math class). The teacher seemed to really like it, but I found it odd and distracting. I couldn’t understand why she didn’t just use the whiteboard, especially since the smart board technology wasn’t very good yet, and it malfunctioned all the time. I guess it didn’t really help that she was learning how to use it and wasn’t very tech savvy in the first place. Sometimes she would try and enlist the tech savvy kids to help her “fix” it and I always loved those moments because it meant we didn’t have to do math for a portion of the class period. Lol.
Even at 56 years old, I have distinct memories of elementary school. We had a chalk board eraser vacuum, where you would run the eraser over the top of it to clean it. Remember when Scholastic books would come and you could buy books or little trinkets for your parents or teachers. Did you have an incubator for chicken eggs in the classroom, waiting for the chicks to hatch. How about those little soil pads that had seeds, you would put them in a cup and watch them grow. The Halloween costume parade around the halls or outside around the school.
I miss the true, old-fashioned school desks. You could open the tops and put books and stuff inside. I was furious when these were replaced with something that was little more than a chair with a floating platform, and books had to be set in the aisle.
I always thought those old-fashioned desks looked so cool (the kind where you open the top and store stuff inside); I've only seen them on TV or in movies and museums. In elementary school (late 80's - mid-90's for me), we had the flat desks with a separate opened compartment underneath the desktop; we could store books, notepads, and other supplies in the storage space. Man... that seems like a lifetime ago!
The huge black and white tube type TV hanging from the ceiling. Spanish lessons and history lessons twice a week on PBS. All the kids learned to mimic the voice over "The following is an educational program provided by the Public Broadcasting System, the [blah blah whatever the rest was]"
Hey Rhett, I remember in elementary school in the late 50's that girls could only wear dresses and boys wore jeans. We also said the pledge of allegiance every morning. The old porcelain drinking fountains, being chosen to be messager and going to the office and picking up things for the teacher. In high school, 1969, the girls finally got to wear pants. This is not underwear, as pants are referred to in some countries. The got to wear jeans as well. Those were great years.
Being a messenger was another one of those special privileges. I remember picking up the mail they had in these little cubbies for each teacher. It's really interesting to see how much the dress code has changed over the years. I bet hardly no schools have those porcelain drinking fountains you mentioned. Thank you for watching and helping us to remember more items!
I remember the year 1966. All, or almost all the girls in my high school, decided to come in wearing slacks. It was a particularly cold winter, and we did not want to wear miniskirts. So many of us broke the rule that the administration couldn't suspend us all. A couple of years later the female teachers followed suit.
I remember the pledge of allegiance. I also remember the hallway drinking fountains that never seemed to have sufficient pressure to generate more than a trickle.
I started 1st grade in 1966, and I remember wearing pants then, even though I'm a girl. Although girls did often wear dresses to school in those days. We always wore jeans.
When you showed the kids sniffing the divorce paper was exactly what all of us did. Another thing that is gone from many schools, non sports electives. Like music, wood or metal shops, home economics and art. I think those classes made a more rounded student. The main courses are important. But , our kids need to pursue other interests for personal growth.
How true we had a larger industrial arts wing wood and metal shop electronics class auto shop drafting and one of the first computer labs ! We also had a chemistry lab was a lot of electives to take .
I attended high school in the early 2000s and took wood shop twice. I had a knack for it and liked it that much. Both years I took wood shop, I made a candle stand, fruit bowl, and cutting board. Give me some tools and wood and I can make the gayest and transest computer desk, entertainment center, cutting board, jewelry box, or baseball bat you've ever seen. I also took lots of art classes and managed to produce some great pictures and ceramic goods through those classes.
Seeing some of these remind me of being a young kid again while others make me think of what my former students will never know about. I’ve seen high schoolers not know how to read analog clocks. The grade books come in handy when electronic grades can’t be accessed or don’t calculate right
Another item is oil cloths. When I was in school in the early 80s, they were a required school supply for art class to protect our desks from paint spills and such. It was always fun choosing a cool new pattern each year!
Show and tell. Bring your favorite toy or what ever, stand in front of the class and tell them all about it! Was awesome.P.S. Born in 1964., from Canada, but we shut down school and watched man land on the moon. I'll never forget it.
In first grade I took a toy to show and tell that my mother told me I couldn’t take. I dropped it and broke it getting off of the bus. I got a beating when I got home and my mother said “now go to school and show your tail”.
I got to!! ...i went to elementry scholl from 1977 to 83....but the scholl was built in 1939!!! .... it closed as a major use school a few years ago ..they let us tour it...the big chalk boards...even the smell was the same!!!
I was in elementary school in the 1990’s and it’s shocking to see that so many things I grew up with are gone. As for the school checkout cards, my sister checked out a book at the school library when she and I were in the fourth grade for a project. Turns out, she looked at the checkout card and found our dad’s name still on it! The book was checked out so infrequently that the checkout card still had records of students who checked it out thirty years before! We and our dad also shared the same fourth grade teacher too! Our dad was taught by this teacher during her first year of teaching and we were taught by this teacher during her final year of teaching!
Wow! This brought back alot of memories. I grew up with Dick, Jane and Sally starting in Kindergarten. I especially remember the Ditto machine our school had. I loved the smell of the paper when it first came out and how the paper would be damp and soft and the familiar churning sound it made when the crank was turned. I can also remember the typing room, filled with rows of small table-like desks with a typewriter on each one. The instructor would call out the letter drills that the entire class would type out in unison. Every classroom in elementary school had a huge flag that hung down from the wall and we'd start each morning out of every school day with the Pledge of Alligence. And lastly, the school doors were unlocked all throughout the day so teachers and students could come and go at will. Thank you for the nostalgic trip, it was fun even tho it made me feel like a dinosaur from ages past...lol 😊
My favorite thing in grade school was doing up the bulletin boards for each season. Getting turkeys, elves, flowers ready to put on them. We also had breakfast in the mornings for the kids.
@@tswain92_ most definitely, they were wide and almost always were a bit difficult to get into backpacks. But they had the coolest designs and artwork especially the Lisa Frank ones.
Loved this and I remember all of them! One thing I remember, as well, is paste bottles and mucilage. I haven't seen either in years, and I imagine glue sticks are the reason. 🙂 Thanks for the memories❤️
Mucilage! I had forgotten what that brown glue was called. It came in a figure-eight bottle and had a red rubber tip that you pressed down on to apply the glue. I remember how it smelled.
OMFG those Costco sized buckets of paste!🤣 I was in Kindergarten in '72-'73 and I sat across from a boy who ate that sh!t like it was ice cream! He said it tasted minty. I would always tell him his butt would get pasted shut if he kept eating it. Our teacher finally figured out where all the paste was disappearing to and she put him on a diet. He was moved to his own table and only allowed a small amount on the end of a popsicle stick. He ate that paste too!🤦♀️🤪
The grade book and slide rule make me the saddest. I find it sad to think about how many young people I meet starting their careers at my place of employment who are barely out of high school and have already forgotten how to do pretty simple math by themselves, they can't read my notes in cursive, and from my perspective, just lack the same quality of education I got. What makes it so sad is that I'm not even old, I'm only 30. It amazes me that someone 10 years my junior seems to have a completely different education than the one I got, and as much time as I find myself spending teaching people about government, mental math, history, etc, I have trouble believing that difference is progress.
I do think there seems to be a big gap but I'm not sure on the exact years of when it happens. A lot of the things you mentioned are necessary for life. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts too.
Out in the field at a work site, a youngster's thingamajig died on him. He was totally lost so back to the trailer which had all the old engineering "tools" we oldtimers knew how to use. No batteries, solar, car charger, whatever it took worked. He bought that night. He also bought a new thingamajig. The new tools are great but you need the brain for backup. Use it or lose it.
@@richardw3470 one time I saw 2 concrete slabs get poured, on which there were going to be storage units placed. They used gps to lay everything out. They could almost be forgiven for the elevation being wrong, since they were just relying on the gps model they were given, but when I came in the do the parking lot around the slabs, I noticed immediately that the slabs were not parallel, they were 4 feet closer together on one end than on the other, and years later, I'm still wondering how they went from start to finish and never spotted that or measured just to be sure or anything 😂
@@samson9428 Poor site prep (which would have shown up before the units were placed or the surround done, hopefully), poor surveying or unfortunate boundaries. Some fellow in a nearby town put storage units (oddly enough) on a piece of private land squared with the street but with an old (now gone) RR bed crossing the street on an angle in front of them . They put 15 units in the back row and 13 in the front. (They could have done it like what you had, providing more driving space.) But, the reason was obvious to us old timers who remembered the RR. You should have asked why - just being curious, of course.
The fact that school lunches mostly sucked, but we loved them, and parents did not complain. Chewing gum in class was never allowed. I had one teacher that would have kids stick the gum on their noses if caught chewing gum. He only had to do that a few times a semester. Parents supported teachers. Parents would say,"then don't chew gum in class if you don't like wearing it on your nose."
never had issue. the image was faded on lunchbox by end of year i loved my plastic character ones. i remember having cabbage patch one,care bears and one year my little pony(80's style of course) soup usually went in my thermos i either packed a juice box and or would take change so i could grab a milk in cafeteria. i was very careful with my lunch boxes i was kind of attached to them. in middle and high school insulated lunch bags were way to go. i only took lunch once in while and rest of time i got hot lunch.
I can remember rural schools in the 50's and 60's. I attended a one room schoolhouse with an actual stage in it (the building was also used for township board meetings). It was very interesting transitioning from a city elementary school to a one room schoolhouse with only 2-3 students in it in the mid 50's. The township schools closed in the late 60's and the surrounding city districts took on the students but by 1967-1968 I had graduated HS and was actually working on my doctorate at a well regarded university.
yep.. our school had 4 grades in one classroom! One teacher fits all. That place is now a township maintenance building. yep. Columbia, NJ its on Route 94 (well it used to be). If you have google earth take a look! this entire area has been extensively reworked when I80 was built through there... and when we lived there in the mid 50's a STEAM locomotive sometimes ran behind our school there. unreal the memories that comes back!
The problem that I always had with ditto copies was sometimes the numbers or letters were smudged and you couldn’t make out what they were which made it very difficult to do math problems. I remember going back to my teacher to find out from the original what it was I was supposed to be seeing
What a trip down memory lane. TY TY Rhetty. I went to a Catholic grade school in SW city part of Chicago in the 1960s for all grades. The school was brand new and beautiful for us first graders in 1961. I had an opportunity to go back a few years ago and they still have all the very same analog clocks in the same place on the wall in the classrooms. And they work!!! Laughed at smelling the mimeograph paper after the nuns handed out tests. TY for uploading this. Made me smile.
You're welcome and thank you for watching. I'm happy to hear this brought back some memories and I appreciate you sharing some of those with us. It's great that your old school has kept some of these features.
I'm a teacher and we still use several of those items: analog clocks (There's one in every room and we teach kids to read them), wooden pencils (The lead in mechanical pencils is always breaking, plus they print too lightly), pencil sharpeners (Most are electric, but there are still some wall-mounted ones), and pull-down maps (KIds are fascinated by these and they can't be easily replaced by computer projections). One thing missing from the obsolete list is paste. My students can't believe that I didn't have gluesticks when I was their age.
High school teacher here. While mechanical pencils are popular, my personal preference, wooden pencils are very much in use in the classroom. I keep a couple of boxes in the classroom for classroom use. I do however have an electrical pencil sharpener that gets good use during a typical school day. Best investment over the manual ones.
I asked my daughter when she was in 4th grade, when are you going to learn Cursive (she looked at me confused) and said "were not learning that " I was like "Hell No" and I taught her myself 💪🇺🇲.
So much yes! I did the same with my now 17yo son when he was in third grade. He hated it, but every week his spelling word lists (5x each) and other assignments were in cursive. No way my son was going to go through life not being able to properly read things written so or be unable to do a decent signature.
@@babsbylow6869 I think cursive is important. It can be easier for long writing and it looks more professional. And we need our young people to be able to read any cursive from way back when.
I was the last class in my elementary school to learn cursive. And yes, I did feel a smug sense of superiority when I wrote in cursive and my younger siblings couldn't read it. Now we're all mature adults... And I still write in cursive when I'm mad at them lmao
Knowing cursive writing in a world that's increasingly trying to abandon it makes me feel like a sideshow freak. Everyone is amazed that someone my age can write beautifully.
They started to teach kids to write in cursive at our schools about 6 or 7 years ago. That didn't last long, and kids now can't read it either. They still need to teach it because historically, a lot of things were written in cursive.
So many of these things I remember having started grade one in 1959. School memories are probably the best part of my childhood. I still think of some of my teachers and friends I haven't seen in decades. Thank you for this trip down memory lane ❤
@@dbergerac9632 I never had to take a bus. Was always close enough to walk. So I was never around at the end of the last day to count it down!! 😉 SHHH! Don't tell anybody! I didn't know about the synchronized clocks in elementary school so I never counted down then. Lol.
Big Chief tablets, mesh pencil bags, 64 count crayons with their sharpeners, gummy erasers with that unforgettable scent. I loved getting school supplies at the first of the year! Also hall passes to go the the restroom, hall monitors and school guards to help you cross the street. And God help you if you were called to the principal's office!
Thank you for the walk down memory lane. I was born in 1966 and I remember a lot of the things you put on. And I clearly remember the smell of the Ditto machine papers!! I had a Peanuts lunchbox!
Unfortunately I remember all of the items and was also born in ‘68. In the 1970’s, we found my dad’s old slide ruler and I was fascinated on how it worked.
The opaque projector was often found in art classrooms, where it was used to project an image onto a large sheet of paper (usually, though not always, white butcher paper). The projected images could be enlarged by physically moving the projector farther away from the paper, and then manually re-focusing the image.
Some lecturers at the University I attended would use the opague projectors though most would use the transparency projectors, a few old school profs used the chalkboards. We as students would use the opague projectors when painting the large scale banners for Queen week and our "cabarets", there an easy way to scale a drawing or picture to a larger scale. You only needed to have a student ID to sign out equipment, you could even rent equipment for an expedition including hang gliders and even University vehicles from the motor pool. I suggested doing this at an American university that I wound up working at and they were surprised that some Universities had such services never mind accessible to students.
Used to be so exciting to see who checked a book out before I did. May have been a friend or a cousin lol. So much fun when things were so much simplier.
Those old metal lunchboxes were also battle weapons. 5:53 Almost every kid's lunchbox had a big dent in it. If little Johnny was bullying you you simply wallop him in the head with that lunchbox. Ah, the memories! 😂
And sadly, that's eventually what led to metal lunchboxes being banned in many schools. So then kids started bringing their lunches in plastic lunch boxes. . .and eventually, those got banned too!
Hey Rhett, Great video! Brought back many happy memories. Thanks for that. There are a few you obviously missed. First, in Dodge Ball, you'd get a reversed image of the ball's surface pattern on any exposed skin if the ball was thrown at you hard enough. How about a globe in every classroom? Remember Big Chief tablets? Pencil boxes and 16-pack Crayola crayons? Rounded and dull "safety" scissors and paste that kids thought was edible? Fire drills were always a great way to break up an otherwise dull day. And my personal favorite - air raid drills. "Duck and Cover" they called it. Like huddling under your desk after a nuclear bomb was dropped would save you from radiation exposure! Good times!
Thankyou Rhetty for the walk back in time as i went to school in the 60s and 70s and what you showed was what we had i always put my hand up to go outside and bang the dusters from the chalk board :) Thankyou for the walk in time today Loved it
I think it’s important for kids to know how to read and write cursive, I will make sure my kids are taught by me. I also think everyone should know how to read an analog clock. My son’s school uses digital and periods have a tone that buzzes instead of a bell.
I do agree, although I only use cursive to sign my name since too many people complain that they can't read my cursive. Probably due to the psycho nun smacking me on the knuckles for having sloppy writing.
To be honest. Cursive has always been an issue. People make up scribbles and just plain don't follow any convention. Because cursive just has to look nice. It's basically useless for anything. It's not a valid way to prove any authenticity in this day and age. And lastly you will practically never read anyone's cursive anywhere minus the odd card here and there.. better to teach them something useful.
I'll disagree about cursive - only because my teen son struggled with Maths in primary school and they spent 30mins everyday insisting they learn cursive and some of the teachers were nazis and wouldn't mark other homework unless it was in cursive, also he's left-handed and found it difficult learning from right-handed ppl, so fast forward to last September when he started Secondary school (high school) and all the teachers tell them not to use cursive, especially my son because his cursive looks like a serial killers handwriting (his history teacher was joking) but did tell him not bother with cursive, he and a few others said the same thing - it was a waste of time that could've been spent helping kids in other subjects.
Oh the smell of the freshly printed pages! My granddaughter is 12. She cannot tell time on a regular clock. Has to be digital. They also do not teach cursive anymore. All of my kids had the Trapper Keeper. I still have one of those pencil sharpeners mounts to the wall here! And it still gets used. And it is still messy when it gets emptied lol. Wonderful walk down memory lane. Thanks!
You're welcome and thank you for watching! I think they should teach those things you mentioned. So many different records are in cursive. And what do they do when nobody can tell time on analog clocks? Change Big Ben to digital?
I was born in 1987, and started school in the 90’s, so I kinda feel like a hybrid kid. I remember most of these things, but some are before my time. Computer in school started to become a thing during my school days, but it was more of something extra.
When I was in school we used scribblers that had all kinds of information on them like times tables, rhymes to remember the month of the year and how many days each one had, weights and measures ( there wasn't metric at that time)
Unless you were born before around 1800 (when the metric system was adopted by many countries), you need to understand things exist even if you don't know about them.
I was in first grade in 1960. We had most of that stuff but we had these old fashioned desks that had a lid that lifted up with a big space underneath so you could store stuff (books, paper, pencils, etc.). Of course the most unique feature they had was a little hole in the corner where you could put an ink well. We never used that feature of course because we had ball point pens by then.
That explains the hole in the upper right hand corner of the desk. I never thought about it. I was also first grade in 1960. My desks though did not open up on top and everything was placed in the open space of the desk under the seat.
Those came later. The first desks I remember had a seat attached to the front of the desk... obviously for the kid in front of you. And you sat on the seat on the seat attached to the desk of the kid behind you. They didn't open. The inkwell hole held a glass jar, with a lid. Often used for dipping the girl's hair sitting front of you.
In my senior year, I worked in the school's library. I liked it. We had the Weekly Reader Book Club and I ordered as many books as I wanted every time! When it came to fundraising, we did it all school year (these days, they only sold candy for a week) and by the time I entered my senior year, the percentage of candy I sold helped to reduce the price of my prom ticket! Good Times!
I remember the pink stuff they sprinkled on the floor if someone puked had a distinctive deodorizing smell. I have cut stencils and operated a mimeograph. I don’t remember any smell to the black ink, but the blue ditto was lovely.
Best memories for me were when I worked as an A/V technician at my high school in 10th grade. I serviced all of the equipment during the summer. I still use a kind protractor and slide rule to this day, as a pilot. We just refer to them a plotter and an E6-B.
I have the same story, A/V repair, there were two of us, me and my buddy Robert. Lots of good memories there. We called slide rules slipsticks. The electronics teacher was the one that taught us how to use a slide rule, they weren't taught in any of the math classes so it was only us (cough) elite folk that took electronics that learned how to use a slide rule. And he called them slipsticks so we called them slipsticks. Of course pocket calculators were just coming onto the market then so before long even the electronics teacher gave up teaching slide rules.
Loved this video! I went to school starting in the mid 60s into the 70s. Back in the early 70s, many of use used fountain pens. We also had real heavy manual typewriters that made typing difficult and slow. Thank you for this trip down memory lane! I remember most of the items in this video! I'm so glad kids are not subjected to Dick, Jane, and Sally! But I miss the old, simple school days!
Are you talking about 'Schaeffer' pens that unscrewed and you put in a cartridge of ink? I went in the same timeframe as you did. Owning one of those pens was like a status symbol, they were like 2 dollars. I remember doing my history homework while listening to 3 sports events at the same time, a 12" B/W TV and 2 radios. The ink that showed all over my fingertips the next day was like a badge of honor.
I went to school all through the 60's and early 70's. It was really interesting between 1960 and 1965. We used an abacus to learn math. In high school we used slide rules. I'm glad I was able to go to school when I did. I loved the Dewey Decimal System. I could find books.
I know there isn't anyone using an abacus. I always remember my dad and a neighbor using those to keep score while playing dominos. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.
I bought my son an abacus and colored snap blocks to help teach him math. He picked up the abacus quickly, and used it for a couple of years until he was in first grade. They are novelties that help kids learn.
my middle school was mostly like this in 1980. my old middle school was built in 1960, and it used Longines nixie tubes. OH MY GOD. I REMEMBER DITTO MACHINES!
Where I live, we have a modern K-6 building, but we still use the same middle school and high school that our parents and grandparents went to, and most of the things mentioned here are still in use. The blackboards, hand crank pencil sharpeners, analog clocks, overhead projectors, the card catalogs are still there, etc. They've modernized quite a bit, but when it comes to a lot of stuff, they've taken the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. Granted, we were finally able to get funding to build a new building for grades 7-12, so it's only a matter of a few years before the old buildings are closed and all of that stuff is finally lost to time.
I've drawn on a chalk board in high school even during the 21st century. So, they aren't entirely gone from K-12. I also remember those overhead projectors in one of my high school math classes; it's kinda interesting to imagine those things are on their way out.
The inkpot and pen to dip into it to write is one of my favourites. It has been fun in subsequent decades to spot fake documents, because ball point pens for writing were not in use except for engraving on leather. (That is one way to point out that the infamous "Anne Frank Diary" was not aujthentic, except for the very beginning of it, which Anne Frank wrote out with pen-in-pot herself, while the forger used an inappropriate ballpoint pen.) Lots of fun; lots of spilled ink and stains on shirts!
I remember all of these being at my school-I got a Trapper Keeper every school year right up until I graduated high school in 1996. The squeak from the chalkboard would make me wince it was so annoying. Brought back a lot of memories for me.
@@HH_The_Great my parents weren't rich-a local store in my hometown where I grew up had them at a cheaper price than other stores. Plus when I was a teenager and started working I saved my money up to get school supplies for the school year.
It seemed like every school year we were required to have a protractor but we never used them but had to have them ( it was an ice pick with a pencil attached ) . I went through grades 1 - 12 from 1962 to 1974 so I remember all those things. Great upload as always Rhetty 👍
Omg I remember my kid being upset bc I didn't get the protractor on his supplies list for the first day of school. I would scream at him (light-heartedly not meanly) "Kevin you're not gonna need a protractor for at least another 3 months"!!
I worked on the school magazine in the late '70s in high school. We used an IBM proportional font electric typewriter. Only two people were allowed to pop the cover off that typewriter; the other one was the IBM technician. I've been working in the electronic repair field ever since.
I did typing as an elective in year 9. Only one other male in the class of about 30. Funny thing is every computer has a keyboard. Forty plus years latter, I may not be able to type 40 words a minute, but I can still touch type. One subject I do not regret taking.
I think I had every one of those. So funny. Especially when you said there’s a school tone instead of the bell, it’s been so long since I’ve been in a school I didn’t know there wasn’t a bell. What kinda crap is that ?!!!! School tone, don’t even sound right 😂. Thanks Rhetty
It literally sounds like a touch tone phone having a button pressed and broadcasted over the intercom. They took the bell systems out of the kids schools here even though the buildings are older. I'm not a fan of that. Surely those were not broken but maybe it's connected to the digital clocks. Thank you for watching Linda!
@@RhettyforHistory it’s kind of sad to see many of these things go. How fun was waiting in line to sharpen pencils, we could tell time with hands clocks for sure at 3:30pm lol. Oh well I’m sure these new things do a pretty good job as well. I don’t think “neatness counts” anymore either because they aren’t really writing their papers either lol. Thanks Rhetty
Yes, because of everything being typed in a computer many schools are not teaching cursive. I think it's still something that should be taught though. Think of all the cursive we see researching history! It's on important documents, family history, census accounts and so much more. Can you imagine us getting rid of something like Big Ben and just putting a digital clock there? There are a lot of town squares across America that have their own clocks.
@@RhettyforHistory exactly I still write my notes. I have ton notebooks. I don’t even exchange phone #’s like these kids lol. Ok I’m old but it’s the principle of the thing lol. Only thing they have now I’m GLAD I never heard of was a mass shooting lock down practice drill 🤦♀️
A few years ago, I created a curriculum called "Common Sense and Useful Skills." It would stick with the student, K-12, and teach skills that they would need to set them up for success in life...such as money management, resume/job hunting skills, government awareness/learning the Constitution, etc. The Common Sense portion would teach kids various things such as to stay away from drugs, water safety, stranger danger, etc. There would be also some lessons on simple home repair for the older kids, and bicycle/skateboard repair for the younger kids. Just need to get it to the Department of Education and to get them to implement it.
That is an excellent idea! Unfortunately, the schools not teaching students anything about life skills like money management is done intentionally .... The government wants the students to grow up to be slaves to the government & not know how to be financially successful. This is all done intentionally.
In Elementary School, you had your own desk. It was YOUR desk for the school year. Your books, pencils, paper would be stored inside. The top was hinged and could be raised to access the inside.
Our name was printed on a piece of white paper (thick like a cereal box) and taped in the upper right corner. The teacher said the student w/neatest, cleanest name board at the end of the year would receive a prize. Don't know how but I won; can't for the life of me remember what the prize was. It was over 70 yrs ago, tho.
I hear you, I love those things and had my name on it too. One day, they just changed it without saying anything and made a weird excuse was ''the boogieman''' did it lol
I REMEMBER MAKING USING construction paper then taped to the edge of my desk lol, i'd use it to hold pencils or other class things. 1980's elementary school through 90's highschool
@@tsm4201979 being the 90s kid, I used it often but they took it away because ''I over used it'' lol
Our desks had an open ended metal box affixed to the underside of the desk. This seems much easier than having to disrupt what you were doing to get out a new pencil.
I loved when my teachers would use the overhead projector because they’d turn the lights off and that was always like a treat!
One time before the teacher was about to use the overhead projector 📽 I lifted the glass, took a staple from a stapler and put it under the glass. When the teacher turned the overhead on, the staple showed in the middle of our worksheets and the entire class including myself were killing ourselves laughing and even the teacher found it a little bit funny. Then the straight A smart Alec stood up and said “Matthew put it into the overhead!” The teacher then looked back at him and said “OK” as she didn’t care. He was jealous because he didn’t think of that prank himself.
Yes it was a treat:😂😂🤣🤣 Naptime!
I would fall asleep! I suffered from narcolepsy and did not get treated for it until my 40's.
i remember doing math problems on those while in middle school mostly 94 to 97. each student had a turn to solve problems show our work. i think that first time i learned of dry erase markers. it was better than having to walk up to the blackboard still used then too having rest of class stare at your backside. i hated that so much it made me anxious. these would be in middle of classroom and the rest of classes eyes would be on the wall where projected
the lights being off nice too i always had sensitivity to lighting and i still do.
Covering our books every year with brown paper bags. And then drawing on them to make them our own! All of these things brought back memories of the 60 ‘s & 70’s!
I did that into the 80's in middle School.
Yes I remember
Where I lived we used Sunday comics, they were big sheets, the paper was a little stronger than the newspaper, it was colorful and it didn't matter if it was torn or some scoundrel took it from the book to read what was on the back of the page. page, you just had to wait for the following Sunday.
I was doing that in the late 90s
brown paper bags to cover books i had too until i started high school in 1996. we had sticky kind. i always made sure show my teacher that was non damaging kind. they were easy to peel off end of year and they lasted whole year. i used to have to have help as i am terrible in math esp measuring for the covers. usually my books had to be recovered 2 or 3 times a year. learned how to fold and place on and tape the covers at least. and yes some crayola markers and or sharpies to doodle on. i used to do same thing in middle school with binder system required. we had to have zipper up binders and my sis and i were able pick new one each year because we always put grade year and ournames and drawings those only sharpies worked but was all good. my mom was cool we got to each year even in hs to pick out new jansport backpacks esp wanted different colors and the zip up binders we allowed by mom were the Five-Star brand. we had trapper keeper stuff in elementary. in binders we had our you got it 5 subject college ruled five star brand notebooks and a few folders. an area to keep our planners. we had have parents sign we did our homework in middle. no need for pencil pouches most of my stuff fit in areas made for pens and even a calculator spot they got heavy but carry our books make bit heavier of course we had plenty of locker time so i only carried what was needed. we always up until end of high school had to have a regular 1.5 i think inch binder because in math we always had notebook checks so we had separate notebooks for math notes. those checks counted as test grades which i was grateful for because it was an easy A. math itself was the biggest anxiety stress ridden subject for me i still cry. though i did less crying when taking math class in college.
The pull-down maps had another function. Oftentimes, when returning from recess, the map would be pulled down. Not because we were about to learn about South America, but because the teacher would roll the map up revealing a pop quiz she had written on the blackboard.
Yes! Ambushed!
In first grade we had a overhead projector
I remember that!
Lost memory brought back
I remember that bs
I loved the scholastic book club. Remember when you got those mini catalogs where you could buy paper back books and animal posters.❤️🖤❤️
Yes, my kids school still has them!
Yes, but if you had mean parents like I did, you only got to look through the catalogs and WISH you could have some of those books.
They still have them and they still have the Scholastic book fair 2-3 times a year.
I remember how excited I was when I got a free dictionary with my order. I still have that dictionary.☺️📖
yes! i loved those!!
The Dewey Decimal System is still used in most libraries and also still taught to a varying degree. It's still taught because when the computerized system goes down, Dewey will ALWAYS work.
The Library was the middle ground that I used to skip school.. We had a Seminar class during my senior year, with that block scheduling leaving an hour and a half of free time, supposed to be used for homework, study time, which wasn’t ever needed the last two years.. So, I would sign out of seminar class, to the library, after quiet time allowed it so, I think that was a half an hour wait.. Then I’d sign in at the library, but left it not signed out ever.. Like I was caught up in a good book, and would forget the time, was the hopes of anyone noticing anything.. Then one day, 50 skips later approximately, my seminar teacher had caught on to my not returning to class.. Told the principal about the incident and I was called down to the office.. Walk was a solid minute at least to reach that office, so I had time to think up the best story I could.. He asks me why I didn’t return to my seminar class and my response was waiting for that question.. I say, yeah, I had some diarrhea issues that kept me in the bathroom, so I didn’t make it back before the bell rang.. It was a seller response, as I didn’t get in trouble, but took it as a fair warning that I’d better not skip school anymore, as they would now be looking for that action from me, like a hawk..
Are you kidding? These DOLTS don't even know WHAT a library is. let alone WHERE one is!
It is still a must at University, computer catalog or not. So kids better learn how it functions at some point.
Sure The Dewey Decimal System is still used; it's not hard to learn. But the physical card catalog no longer exists, it's all digital.
@@22ergie man’s saying this when almost every school has a library
In primary school we'd take a class picture with the teacher each year. I love those old pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Those were great pictures to remember everyone in your class and to see how they changed. I don't think too many schools even do that anymore. Thank you foe watching and sharing your memories.
I came across my 3rd grade class picture last week.
My elementary kids still take class pictures. =)
That's good to hear!
My 3rd grader still gets group pictures.
I wish they bring a lot of those things back. I remember making my own book cover with a brown paper bag from the piggly Wiggly. Those were great times.
Book covers are another item not really used. That used to be mandatory where I was for awhile. Thank you for watching and sharing another item for us to remember!
For me, it was Fry's paper bags that got a new life on text books.
I went to school in Mississippi in the late 1970s and 1980s. Even though I went to Catholic school, we got book covers from the state. Occasionally, the power company would print them. On the first or second day of the year, they'd give us our textbooks, and there was a big stack of covers. At the end of the year, we'd pull them off, toss them in the trash, and turn the books back in. Probably the most fun day of the year, since we were done until next fall...unless we had a summer reading list.
So funny us too in Montreal except with ‘Kraft’ paper bags. Btw. Piggly Wiggly store is on an old blues song ‘ Groceries on the Shelf ‘ by Victoria Spivey ( I think) we don’t have the here but I know about them from the song. Lol
@@johngore7744 Piggly Wiggly was a franchise brand, I think, and they were typically smaller stores. They almost completely disappeared for several decades but seem to be coming back, usually in poorer areas of towns and cities.
When I was in middle school my mum knew a kid in my class never had lunch at school, so she talked with the teacher and arranged for her to drop off pre made meals for him that wasn’t obvious to the other kids. I never appreciated it until I was older!
Our high school choral music teacher found free " dress clothes " ( to wear for concerts ) for choir members who couldn't afford them . All kept secret - I only knew because the teacher was a family friend .
Wow, your mom is/was a very good person!
That's very admirable of your mom. I'm sure he appreciated it.
What a sweet mom you have ❤
Yes. I witnessed many acts of kindness. My father taught 5th and 6th grade for 33 years. Won a national teaching award twice. I saw him do many acts of kindness with no recognition in and out of school.
My Dad bought an old high school library book on physics that was replaced by his high school in 1950. It had "DISCARD" stamped across the check out card. After he died I found it among his old things. Then I nearly died when I saw one of the names, Leonard Nimoy. Dad went to school with him in Boston and knew him.
That's cool as hell.
Ah! What's the name of the book?
That is a treasure
LEONARD NIMOY?? like fr fr???
WOW! Your dad, like Leonard Nimoy, surely lived long and prospered!
The Weekly Reader was always exciting to get! And if you had enough money you could order a paperback book !
I always looked forward to that and most of the time I would buy a book!
SBS books!
Yes! I loved the Weekly Readers too and could always find books to order every time! 🤗
Me too! I remember the Weekly Reader and SBS Books. I always checked off the ones I wanted and used my allowance to buy them! Innocent times.
Man, I loved those Weekly Readers-I also used my allowance to buy a book as well. Sometimes I hid my book I was reading inside my textbook so it would look like I was working on my assignments but in reality I was getting to the good parts of the book so school work had to wait a few minutes longer lol.
You can't imagine how sad this make me, and, I'm certain, others who can vividly remember EVERYTHING included in this video.
don't be sad - most of these are still used in the US today! not every child experiences all of them, of course, but many of them will have some :)
We're all going to die. :(
@@MartenFerret Says a GenX, Millenial...yeah, sadly, some of us Boomers sooner than others...
@@birdsfan57 I'm in my 40s. ^_^
@@MartenFerret Count your blessings...you still have much life ahead...make the most of it!
I remember having a “pencil box” in the 80’s. Various pencils, pens, protractor, calculator, erasers…
Still have one.
We had pencil boxes back in the 60's. It was _The "Flintstones" or "Maverick", "The Rifleman_ " hit TV shows of the times.
The same for Our Lunch Boxes. My favorite one was "ZORRO" ..🤗
@@garychambers5850 When there were THREE television networks, right?
or a cigar box before pencil boxes
@@Birdbike719 Panatella or Cheroot? LOLOLOL
I went to school back in the 80s and I did not realize most of these items are now obsolete. The school experience must be completely different now. Glad I have those memories.
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.
Same here!
Matt Brem, I attended school from 1989-2002, & I too remember everything in this video, & I was also unaware of it all being retro & defunct.
Many schools do not give grades like we got in school. The school where I teach uses a mastery system. Instead of 5 different letter grades. We have only 3 levels. Mastery, partial mastery and non mastery. Nobody, including the parents like it.
Started school in 1977, the teachers still paddled your behind for bad behavior, and also standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Still wished I had my CHIPS lunchbox!
Those old pencil sharpeners were fantastic! And the only reason they were so loud is because they were always mounted on a wall that was hollow. Didn’t matter where on the wall. Our science teacher had a great time teaching that little concept to us knuckleheads. I have one myself and it still works.😂
I homeschool my kids, and we have one too. 😀
We do so many things the old way. I didn’t realize just how much had changed. Man, I’m glad I’m giving my kids the older experience.
They were good only if they were sharp. I had to deal with having to clean it out and finding it to always be stuck with pencil tips or dull.
@@Shastasnow I was thinking you were going to talk about electric pencil sharpeners replacing the manual ones, instead of replacing the pencils themselves.
some of those sharperners were quite flimsy though they did job but added to noise. i only used them up until middle school then i brought my own sharpeners.i really used mostly mechanical pencils(BIC brand was the standard) those sharpeners sometimes had issues like one size the hole is blocked and handle wont turn sometimes break the actual pencil. i broke lead a lot writing so i hated to have to keep getting up to sharpen my pencil like ok no you don't need to watch me stare i would give the whole class.
i mean those sharpeners echoed swear next class over could hear it
Wow, what memories. I didn’t realize a lot of these were obsolete, especially the clocks in the hallway. Thanks for sharing.
It seems strange seeing the clocks and bells gone. It just doesn't feel like school. Thank you for watching Robert!
I’m shocked to hear that some kids can’t read analog clocks! That’s not good in my opinion!
I don't think so either but I guess it's disappearing in other places too. Cell phones and computers are all digital too.
@@Maki-00 it's TERRIBLE! My daughter teaches middle school and when she told me that I was quite surprised to say the least!! They also do not learn cursive! What we should do is get a petition together to cut out a bunch of the stupid state and federal testing that they have to spend so much time teaching two and then doing during the school year! In my opinion it is ridiculous. Especially doing it this year when everything is so crazy with Covid. They still do testing this year with all that school online and missed!! DUMB!
(And it's not the teachers it's those higher powers that requires us just FYI in case you didn't now. Sometimes people blame teachers for things that they absolutely have no control over. )
So much for the old prank of reversing the wires so the clocks ran backwards and putting in an appropriate paper face plate to match.
Half of those things are still in my schools - I am a teacher, I will count my blessings that we no longer have ditto masters, those were messy. I insist that my students learn to read a face clock.
That’s fantastic that you’re teaching them to read analog clocks! Do you also teach cursive?
Good for you
I do think it is something they need to know. Thanks for teaching them still.
Why? What’s the point of learning that.
My son saved his allowance and chores money and wanted to buy a watch. We went back and forth about analog or digital--I won out. His analog watch is often a curiousity to other kids.
Growing up in the mid 2000’s really made me appreciate the transition I had from a brief time with chalkboards to whiteboards and finally the slow rollout of smart boards which started out on wheels and were quite large, to eventually being slim and stationary in a classroom. We even used the paper projectors on and off. Such a unique thing being able to experience different advances.
Me too
Now you know how we older people feel, who went from rotary phones to smart phones. From typewriters to computers. Etc, etc etc!
loved writing on the chalk board also land lines and caller id.
I remember in primary / elementary school when in 6 grade in 2005 the school I went too had all the chalk boards changed to white boards.
As a child of the 70's and 80's I loved walking down memory lane with your video. My favorite was smelling the Ditto paper; especially when it was fresh and warm. Someone would make decent money if they could bottle the scent and sell it to the Boomers and us Gen X'ers!😄
It's probably toxic, but I'll bet a tattoo place has them. They use them for portrait transfers.
Totally agreed! They lost the smell once they cooled off, but we all loved it when they handed out freshly printed warm worksheets.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 My best friend is a tat artist and everytime she inks me I get that nostalgic feeling when she places the purple transfer on my skin. She was homeschooled and has no idea what she missed out on. There's just no way to describe the distinct scent of ditto's warm off the press!
I recall the fresh worksheets as cool & a little damp, with that fabulous smell. I did sometimes take home the empty gallon "gas cans" of ditto fluid for my own projects. I was an introvert loner much of my school days, but never had a bad teacher. I saw little of the processes of school, and did OK, but not so much in math after 6th grade.
Exactly
The one thing I've never gotten past the love of---analog clocks. I'm getting a very large one for my apartment because I like them a LOT!!
I hated school in general, at least high school.
I picked up a GE click radio from 1954/55, damn thing STILL works and keeps time as good as anything. But you DO have to wait for it to "warm up." Lol a thing I haven't seen since I was little with very old b/w tvs in the 70s.
Remember the "dot?" It'd be there 20 minutes after you shut it off. Lol
Thanks school for thaught me how to read a clock!!!!
We still have a analog clock in our house
Keep the cog alive.
I have something like 18 analog clocks on my walls.
I loved the Schoolastic books you could order. My parents always encouraged me to read.
I also worked in the library and was part of the library club. We checked out the books and helped others find what they were looking for.
I also worked in the reading lab with Sister Winifred. We encouraged others to learn how to read better and improve their skills.
I also worked on the school paper as a feature writer. Fun times!
This is still a thing. There is even a website where you can order from them. I love buying books for the kids, and the teachers classrooms will get benefits if I order a lot of books.
my mom was so glad i wanted books all the time oh yes those flyers i would pick out one paperback and i would look forward to the day of book delivery to classroom. i wish scholastic book fairs were more than once a year like 2x. we had special reading incentive programs schoolwide find primary and elementary that each year end we'd have parent night special ceremony on awards for reading. i miss the family fun nights from primary when i went and then my sister's our parents always took us. my primary school is now apartments. i cried when i found out i really wanted to show my nephew where i went to for first and second grade. sometimes the books i ordered i would keep in my bag for free reading period which super relaxing end of day activity once a week.
@@tinabastarache2674 My kids have it once a month, and there is a website. Maybe you can order books from the website?
@@aliceDarts oh i mean it be once a month for the flyers but each year we an actual book fair cases of books and accessories would be in an area and each class would be called down for their turn to spend half hour looking and buying things with money my mom sent money for those too. we would have no idea what on shelves on the special day like flyers would have names and pics so we had time to go through them and pick. the flyer thing was something handed out regularly in class during day i would look at it and circle items i would like only could get one my mom rule. it was exciting just to get those flyer. i don't need to order any books i don't have any children but when my nephew is bit older i would give him money to order. he is in kinder so he hasn't begun the beginning of reading yet like only 4th day in most teachers try to establish rules and routines teaching kids basics on using school supplies. my nephew on first day of school fell asleep on bus we didn't know he was on bus when going pick up. my poor bug was so tuckered out from the day he rolled off seat to floor and rolled under. when he falls asleep he tend's to do that. it's hard to yell to him wake up he don't even wake up when rolling off. when he crashes he tends to get "night" terrors he don't remember anything but super scary for us adults. he may not hear me but i would say grab leg not hard and say it's alright you are ok. no one left u in car. glad bus drivers have two ways never seen my sis book so fast to get to the school. he was awake still tired not crying or afraid. i can't order from scholastic unless i am a teacher or parent or student and you have to provide info including grade and school name.
The book fairs were one of my favorite parts of the school year.
I'm old. My elementary school was torn down for residential homes, my junior high has been repurposed as a commercial building, and my high school is now senior housing. My first two places of employment are now defunct. Apparently, I leave behind me a path of destruction......
Or.....maybe you are leading a path of change! I know the feeling of schools and places of work being gone. Not only that but my childhood home is too. Life is full of change but it is fun to look back on some of our memories. Thank you for watching and sharing some of yours!
Is your college now an airport?
@@aTribeCalledBreast No, but it changed its name! It's now a university.
My first school is boarded up and for sale. The second one was from 1921 and is long gone. Getting older so I know more and more about things that are less relevant. Programmed on a mainframe in college. Most all of the tech in college is in a museum now.
It's always sad to see those old schools boarded up and abandoned. I can just picture them with kids running around and laughing with friends.
I loved the card catalog!!! And the book cards 😁 Yes I'm strange. Thanks again Rhetty for the trip back.
I could find information faster flipping through cards. I hate the linear logic to online catalogs.
My class was pretty much the final one who was taught to use a card catalog. By second grade, they had computerized. I never mastered how to use it but I was taught
You're not strange : ) I used to run away from school and go to the town library and the Dewey Decimal System was something I was an 'expert' in. : )
@@yellowbird5 Old school is the ONLY school. Class of 1980, Dearborn High, in Dearborn, Michigan, or as we called it, "Dog Bone High".
I had no problem getting books from the Library. I'm talking Jr. High and High School. If I needed help, there was always the librarian there for help. 📖
I was in high school from 2012-2016, but I think my school must’ve been quite underfunded, because we still had a lot of these things.
Mine too ha still had most of these
(Btw it was a expensive private school)
@@Monsterathecat some teachers loved them old is sometimes better I taught in 2017 and used an overhead projector kids preferred it over newer could see better.
It means the cost your teacher union outweighed the tech budget lol
It may have been old but none of matters, old or new, if you don't have a teacher who can make things stick in your mind.
Cool! It would have been great to tour your school. It would have been like a time travel field trip.
I loved hoarding my lunch money throughout the week and buying albums with it on the weekends! I’d walk 2 miles to a store that carried records every Saturday. I was thin AND had an amazing record collection! 😂
Lmao, I remember hoarding snack money my parents gave me, to use in the snack bar. I would usually end up spending it on CDs. This is how I was able to build up a CD collection during my school years, without a job, lol.
I remember all of these things. In my grammar school, most classrooms had an upright piano and the teachers knew how to play it-at least fundamentally. The smell of the Ditto ink was intoxicatingly wonderful. Does anyone remember a reading system with story cards & question cards & answer cards. It had color coded levels. The boxes of cards were usually on a table in the back of the room. It was called Scholastic something? I believe. I loved the stories, it was something you did if you were finished early with an assignment. You could do it quietly. I would hate school today, I'm sure of it. Thanks again for the memories!♥️
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. I don't know if it is the same thing you had or not and I'm not sure who made it. But I remember the reading system starting young with the letters even and there was a whole story that was told about each letter. The teacher would even dress up as each letter. As it progressed to later grades we did have different things added that sound more like what you are describing. I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. I always thought it made learning fun.
@@RhettyforHistory Thanks. I don't remember the letter system at my school, but the reading comprehension system we had, started around grade 5 or 6. The stories were not childish either. They were intelligent and interesting. Some factual, some fiction. The question card did not allow for you to skim the story. We were expected to really read the story through. We didn't get participation trophies in the 1960's. Haha.😉👍
It certainly was fun for me. Unlike math which I had a form of dyslexia about. Lol Oh well.
I was lucky enough to have music, art, and gym as well. Remember the recorder ? (Plastic flute) is that still around lol
@@lindaball6714 We didn't play instruments in my grammar school but we did have Home Economics. We learned basic sewing machine operation, cooking, how to rewire a lamp, use tools...things like that. In HS we had all the arts, including drama class. Sadly a lot of schools today have dropped fine arts classes I've heard. That's a bit sad.
I remember that. I think it was called SRA Reading Laboratory.
I used to love using the card catalog. Never really had much trouble locating my book.
This was really interesting! I’m a teacher and I actually also write grades down with a pen and spiral notebook in addition to posting them online. It helps me keep track better.
I can understand doing that. I am still old fashioned in many ways. Thank you for watching!
I remember always trying to get a peek at those old gradebooks, because the teachers didn't tell us our grades until we got our report cards at the end of the quarter.
Well, some teachers would tell us and others wouldn't.
i still use a paper grade book also before I enter them into the computer. It's actually faster than scrolling up and down when graded papers aren't in alphabetical order.
My Grandmother, ( born in 1895) taught 1 - 8 th grade in a one room school house. She rode to work on a horse, she put up in a lean-to. And had to start the fire in the BenFranklin stove. She got water out of the creek. In the winter she'd have to take a hatchet to break the ice first. She had to have all of this done before the kiddos arrived.
I have seen HER report cards. Proficiency tests. She had to cover over 25 subjects, including Latin, and geometry, geography, etc. She was one smart cookie, she usually scored 98% or 97% proficiency. WOW! I have her Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary she used in the school. It's got a 4 inch thick spine!! And I do USE it!
Wow, hadn't thought about the Dewey Decimal System in a while. Libraries could be like a maze. And the terror of dodge ball or Red Rover! Thanks for sharing these memories.
Red Rover was certainly another game that could be unforgiving. I have to wonder if that is played anywhere. Thank you for watching and bringing up another memory for us all to remember.
I actually prefer the Dewey decimal system. If I was in a particular part of the stacks, and I didn't find the exact book I was seeking, I could browse similar works on the same subject without having to know the name of the text ahead of time.
Dodge ball terror! In the 70s our coaches would announce kill ball. 🤨
You're right about that. There were certainly times where you could find another book.
That Dewey Decimal system was so nonsensical!
Of all your videos, this is the one that has allowed me to really feel how old I am. Each and every item was a part of my life. Not only as a child but as a teacher, I have used this stuff. Preparing a class using projectors, or the VHS system was a daily task. I also had to use the flip chart, both as a student and as a teacher! Definitely, times have changed! We've come a long way, babies!
I love the commentary - it really helps to understand how these things were used and sometimes used outside of their original purpose. For example, the book sign out card - 'Sometimes it was fun to see who signed out the book before. Maybe your older brother, or your crush.'
I remember stamps. Not signing out.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Seem to recall both methods. After 6th grade, we moved up to what used to be called "junior high school." That's middle school, I'm assuming, for all of the "kiddies" out there who're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. May still go by that name in certain areas.
Rhetty,
In the late forties we still had inkwells on our desks, but didn't use them, we used ballpoint pens.
Since they leaked, in those early fifties the teachers made us use pencils instead
We learned cursive writing but many people today can't read it, which is a sad thing because
not only is it faster than printing, but done well
is art.
My parents grade school autograph books from the twenties and thirties had beautiful example of Teachers and students
penmanship.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
There is an art to cursive and history wise it is a necessary thing to know. So many records use it from some of our most important documents to census records and even family history. I do think it should be taught. I'm a printer but I can certainly read and write it. I wrote cursive as long as they made me and converted back when they didn't enforce it. Thank you for warching and sharing your memories!
@@RhettyforHistory I'm 61 years old, and when I was in school we learned cursive in the 4th grade and used it all the time for writing papers and so forth in school afterward. It had to be legible so the teacher could read it. I was very surprised to hear that it isn't even being taught anymore. Nowadays I mostly print, rather than write cursive, but I still think it is one of those things that should be taught, it's an art our children shouldn't lose.
Wow,. Here it was 1964 when we started to use pens in school ( instead of pencils). Our desks also had inkwells but we never used then.
But it was about 3 years till we started using bapllpoints. We started with cartridge pens.
You realize that cursive is now a secret code for us oldsters to use against youngsters.
I use antique fountain pens with flexible nibs, to write Victorian-style calligraphy that's REALLY hard for youngsters to read.
We had inkwells and used them. Every morning, that week's ink monitor had to fill the inkwells. We also had those awful dip-pens; basically a stick with a nib fastened to the end. The desks were a reminder of what some kids used the pens for, with numerous carvings from years gone by.
In the early 2010s when I went to high school, that’s when everything started to change and had smart boards in every classroom, chrome books and a lot of my classes were paperless.
Same here
I don't think everything in school should be all paperless, but I also don't think that they should go to the no technology route. Paper and technology both have their pros and cons and places in the world.
@markrapacki5855wow!
I graduated from high school in 1977. I remember almost all of the things you mentioned.
Same year here.
When you were in grade school did you have a big climbing rope in the gymnasium we had one we had to climb and two stories high and it had a little Matt laying underneath it I wonder if they get away with that now
Of course we had that. I couldn't do it well even though I was in good shape.
Me too, 1977
Just goes to show how long these classroom items were standards. I graduated in 2014 and when I started school, they were almost all still very much used, but as I got older, they gradually fell out of use.
I’m 61 and remember when our rooms could be decorated for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. We had a Christmas pageant and Christmas break. We actually sang Christian carols at school. I also loved my Trapper keeper
We still decorate for the holidays. We’ll have door decoration contests. They don’t do a Christmas story specific pageant, but the chorus still has a Christmas concert each year.
I"am 55. And can remember a Christmas tree in our autorium season cafeteria. Also the same place we did Christmas plays. Also we had Halloween carnivals. I feel I have lived in a different time and not that long ago. When I start school I. 1970. I was 4 yrs old because my birthday is in October and school started I. September. I liked kindergarten because only went 4 hrs. Then found out after that had to go toI 1:30 then I got a surprise at 4 th grade I had to stay until 2:30. When I went to elementary it went from kindergarten to sixth grade and then 7th and 8th went to junior high. Then later they changed where at 6th grade you went to junior high building but they changed name to middle school. I was not a big fan of school. Although I do remember fondly two teachers and one teacher assistant that were really nice..
Kids won't even say Christmas break, they say winter break. They aren't allowed to have a unifying culture or identity.
Me and my younger brother both attended a Catholic highschool. The school's still celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter holidays by the time my younger brother graduated in 2011.
The teachers are allowed to decorate their classroom doors, and inside their classroom as long as it didn't impede other teachers using it during other periods (i.e. no decorating the whiteboards, etc.)
I think they've since added celebrating other cultural holidays too like Divali and Hanukkah.
@@taylorc2542 Sad.... But on hears a mix of the terms locally. Expect this won;t last much longer til it's all "winter break."
You could usually tell how rich your classmates were by looking at how many crayons came in their box.
The kids that had the 64 count box with the BUILT-IN-SHARPENER were straight-up ballers! That particular status symbol was like driving a Lambo today! :)
Ah yes back then being rich wasn't like owning a Lamborghini or having the latest iPhone (I'm born from 2008 but vintage stuffs fascinate me)
Back to school shopping for my granddaughter consisted of a chrome book and uniforms, both bought off the internet. No special trip to the store for picking out new pencils, pencil boxes, or erasers. No choosing a new lunchbox. It made my old school heart hurt just a little.
That is different. I can't believe she didn't need anything else. I always enjoyed going out and getting all the supplies and clothes for back to school. It was a madhouse most of the time but everything had a smell. The new crayons, pencils, erasers, paper and more. Thank you for watching and sharing your new memories of how it has changed.
@@RhettyforHistory yes!! I looooved getting new back-to-school supplies! I’m still a big fan of “old school” spiral and marble composition notebooks, Bic 4-color pens, and traditional wooden pencils. 💜
That was one of the things I looked forward to. We got our BTS list on the first day (not during the summer as my daughter did) and my mom would take myself and my sister Kathy to Joywin's stationery (Franklin Square, NY) after dinner. The little store was so packed, and we'd even see many kids we knew from class at the store!
I remember as a kid in the 60's my parents buying a ton of school supplies every year; paper, pencils, erasers, binders, duotangs, etc.
I loved August, because that was when the stores started selling school supplies. It was wonderful to see all the new designs of the binders and folders that we could use for school. And the pencil case sets were awesome!
This was an awesome trip down memory lane. Well done!
Thank you and I appreciate you watching Carol!
I totally agree with that. I was a school kid in the 80’s (kindergarten-year 8)and part of high school (year 9-12) and a lot of those things you showed bought back a lot of memories eg the overhead projectors, clocks-we had on the wall of our classroom, protractors for geometry. Doing subjects like home economics prepared you for when you moved out of home-it taught you how to budget, even maths taught you that. Today’s kids aren’t taught any of that, what we learnt back then was better than what they do today, you’re right when you say that kids today wouldn’t know how to read time, I wouldn’t be surprised if some o& them can’t read a wall clock cause they are so used to digital.
As an 80's kid, I remember all of this stuff. Although, I remember most of my community college professors still using overhead projectors @7:45 even into the late 2000's.
I had some teachers using overhead projectors, chalkboards and even the pull down maps when I was in high school in 2009-2012
I remember everyone making a big deal when one classroom got a smart board. It didn't always work though lol
My community college has digital versions of overhead projectors which connect to the same projection unit as the computer does. The problem is that the professors are to old to understand how they connect, and the students are to young to know how to use them.
@@itsmefm I was also in high school around this time and I remember this kind of thing as well. When I was a junior, our school got its first smart board. I just so happened to be in the classroom that had it (it was a math class). The teacher seemed to really like it, but I found it odd and distracting. I couldn’t understand why she didn’t just use the whiteboard, especially since the smart board technology wasn’t very good yet, and it malfunctioned all the time. I guess it didn’t really help that she was learning how to use it and wasn’t very tech savvy in the first place. Sometimes she would try and enlist the tech savvy kids to help her “fix” it and I always loved those moments because it meant we didn’t have to do math for a portion of the class period. Lol.
@@MiMi_MoMo yes omg it was funny to see everyone struggling with the smart board lol
I still had teachers using them in 2012 (10th grade), and they're still used in some places in the country (and the world, i'm sure) now
Even at 56 years old, I have distinct memories of elementary school. We had a chalk board eraser vacuum, where you would run the eraser over the top of it to clean it. Remember when Scholastic books would come and you could buy books or little trinkets for your parents or teachers. Did you have an incubator for chicken eggs in the classroom, waiting for the chicks to hatch. How about those little soil pads that had seeds, you would put them in a cup and watch them grow. The Halloween costume parade around the halls or outside around the school.
I remember the Scholastic Bookmobile and the Halloween parades. Not the other stuff you mentioned though
Thank uou for watching and sharing some of your memories.
We grew our plants in our empty milk cartons from lunch.
My school did not allow halloween costumes.
I remember when teachers would have a student take the chalk board erasers out side to clean them.
I miss the true, old-fashioned school desks. You could open the tops and put books and stuff inside. I was furious when these were replaced with something that was little more than a chair with a floating platform, and books had to be set in the aisle.
My school's desks had a platform under the seat for the books.
@@rinatail7248 At least ya had that much! :)
Just imagine the lawsuit if a sight impaired kid fell over them and got hurt...
I always thought those old-fashioned desks looked so cool (the kind where you open the top and store stuff inside); I've only seen them on TV or in movies and museums. In elementary school (late 80's - mid-90's for me), we had the flat desks with a separate opened compartment underneath the desktop; we could store books, notepads, and other supplies in the storage space. Man... that seems like a lifetime ago!
Remember the hole at the top of the desks for a previous generations' ink bottle?
I love everything about school, the desks,the pencils,the weekly reader,the maps,galoshes outside the classroom,
Nerd!
The huge black and white tube type TV hanging from the ceiling. Spanish lessons and history lessons twice a week on PBS. All the kids learned to mimic the voice over "The following is an educational program provided by the Public Broadcasting System, the [blah blah whatever the rest was]"
Hey Rhett, I remember in elementary school in the late 50's that girls could only wear dresses and boys wore jeans.
We also said the pledge of allegiance every morning.
The old porcelain drinking fountains, being chosen to be messager and going to the office and picking up things for the teacher.
In high school, 1969, the girls finally got to wear pants. This is not underwear, as pants are referred to in some countries.
The got to wear jeans as well.
Those were great years.
Being a messenger was another one of those special privileges. I remember picking up the mail they had in these little cubbies for each teacher. It's really interesting to see how much the dress code has changed over the years. I bet hardly no schools have those porcelain drinking fountains you mentioned. Thank you for watching and helping us to remember more items!
I remember the year 1966. All, or almost all the girls in my high school, decided to come in wearing slacks. It was a particularly cold winter, and we did not want to wear miniskirts. So many of us broke the rule that the administration couldn't suspend us all. A couple of years later the female teachers followed suit.
@@RhettyforHistory I'm by our oo on. NJ k noko
I remember the pledge of allegiance. I also remember the hallway drinking fountains that never seemed to have sufficient pressure to generate more than a trickle.
I started 1st grade in 1966, and I remember wearing pants then, even though I'm a girl. Although girls did often wear dresses to school in those days. We always wore jeans.
When you showed the kids sniffing the divorce paper was exactly what all of us did. Another thing that is gone from many schools, non sports electives. Like music, wood or metal shops, home economics and art. I think those classes made a more rounded student. The main courses are important. But , our kids need to pursue other interests for personal growth.
How true we had a larger industrial arts wing wood and metal shop electronics class auto shop drafting and one of the first computer labs ! We also had a chemistry lab was a lot of electives to take .
I attended high school in the early 2000s and took wood shop twice. I had a knack for it and liked it that much. Both years I took wood shop, I made a candle stand, fruit bowl, and cutting board. Give me some tools and wood and I can make the gayest and transest computer desk, entertainment center, cutting board, jewelry box, or baseball bat you've ever seen. I also took lots of art classes and managed to produce some great pictures and ceramic goods through those classes.
Wait, no more shop classes!!! They were fun and cool. A nice break from regular class.
How about Driver's Ed? Typing?
im a high school student in canada and we have all of these classes still
Seeing some of these remind me of being a young kid again while others make me think of what my former students will never know about.
I’ve seen high schoolers not know how to read analog clocks. The grade books come in handy when electronic grades can’t be accessed or don’t calculate right
Another item is oil cloths. When I was in school in the early 80s, they were a required school supply for art class to protect our desks from paint spills and such. It was always fun choosing a cool new pattern each year!
I've never heard of that. I grew up in the 80s and loved art class. (it's my job now)
In the 60s, in elementary school, we had to wear those "smocks" to paint in ...or do anything messy.....
we were just told to bring an old adult size button down shirt--imagine me, a 50lb kid wearing one of my dad's (250lbs) old shirts...
Man, my art classes were so messy.
No protective equipment for the students or the room.
This was around 2005 by the way...
OMG, I do remember that!
Show and tell. Bring your favorite toy or what ever, stand in front of the class and tell them all about it! Was awesome.P.S. Born in 1964., from Canada, but we shut down school and watched man land on the moon. I'll never forget it.
You guys were still in school in July?!?
@@g.cosper ll
In first grade I took a toy to show and tell that my mother told me I couldn’t take. I dropped it and broke it getting off of the bus. I got a beating when I got home and my mother said “now go to school and show your tail”.
I miss ALL of these things. Would dearly love a chance to have a walk through my childhood classrooms.
I got to!! ...i went to elementry scholl from 1977 to 83....but the scholl was built in 1939!!! .... it closed as a major use school a few years ago ..they let us tour it...the big chalk boards...even the smell was the same!!!
We would feel like giants!
I was in elementary school in the 1990’s and it’s shocking to see that so many things I grew up with are gone. As for the school checkout cards, my sister checked out a book at the school library when she and I were in the fourth grade for a project. Turns out, she looked at the checkout card and found our dad’s name still on it! The book was checked out so infrequently that the checkout card still had records of students who checked it out thirty years before! We and our dad also shared the same fourth grade teacher too! Our dad was taught by this teacher during her first year of teaching and we were taught by this teacher during her final year of teaching!
Wow! This brought back alot of memories. I grew up with Dick, Jane and Sally starting in Kindergarten. I especially remember the Ditto machine our school had. I loved the smell of the paper when it first came out and how the paper would be damp and soft and the familiar churning sound it made when the crank was turned. I can also remember the typing room, filled with rows of small table-like desks with a typewriter on each one.
The instructor would call out the letter drills that the entire class would type out in unison. Every classroom in elementary school had a huge flag that hung down from the wall and we'd start each morning out of every school day with the Pledge of Alligence. And lastly, the school doors were unlocked all throughout the day so teachers and students could come and go at will. Thank you for the nostalgic trip, it was fun even tho it made me feel like a dinosaur from ages past...lol 😊
I remember sniffing dittos too! And you are right, you never had to worry about a school being shot up then. Crazy times we live in.
In highschool we had a target shooting class and kids would have 22 rifles hang off their backs riding the school on their stingrays
"See Dick run. Run, Dick, run! See Jane run. Run, Jane, run!" Everyone in those readers always seemed to be running!
@@spang9782 I love your comment !! I think the ONLY one who wasn't running was Tim...he just sat there staring straight ahead. Have an awesome day !
A lot. Two words.
As an educator for 20 years....I've seen many of these items become obsolete throughout my career. This brought back memories from my childhood.
Oh my gosh! You brought back most of my forgotten school memories of things we used 30 years ago! Thank you for the video!!
My favorite thing in grade school was doing up the bulletin boards for each season. Getting turkeys, elves, flowers ready to put on them. We also had breakfast in the mornings for the kids.
How about Christmas plays? I was set to be "Santa" one year - then the dreaded chickenpox struck. So much for my chances at stardom...
Seeing those Trapper Keepers really took me back!You felt like the it kid if you had one of those!
Oh yes. I had to have it. However, I hated using it. It was always so awkward.
Before them, we used a Pee Chee
Trapper Keepers are still available, fortunately. I just bought a brand new one with an awesome retro design on it. I love it.
Ah, so that's why Cartman was making such a big deal about it.
@@tswain92_ most definitely, they were wide and almost always were a bit difficult to get into backpacks. But they had the coolest designs and artwork especially the Lisa Frank ones.
Loved this and I remember all of them! One thing I remember, as well, is paste bottles and mucilage. I haven't seen either in years, and I imagine glue sticks are the reason. 🙂 Thanks for the memories❤️
Mucilage! I had forgotten what that brown glue was called. It came in a figure-eight bottle and had a red rubber tip that you pressed down on to apply the glue. I remember how it smelled.
@@tayler7441 I always wanted my mom to buy that curious looking glue, in the neat bottle! She never did, but I always hoped!😂
@@tayler7441 Totally forgot about mucilage.
OMFG those Costco sized buckets of paste!🤣 I was in Kindergarten in '72-'73 and I sat across from a boy who ate that sh!t like it was ice cream! He said it tasted minty. I would always tell him his butt would get pasted shut if he kept eating it. Our teacher finally figured out where all the paste was disappearing to and she put him on a diet. He was moved to his own table and only allowed a small amount on the end of a popsicle stick. He ate that paste too!🤦♀️🤪
@@tayler7441 and the glue was amber colored. It was very sticky and messy compared to glue sticks.
The grade book and slide rule make me the saddest. I find it sad to think about how many young people I meet starting their careers at my place of employment who are barely out of high school and have already forgotten how to do pretty simple math by themselves, they can't read my notes in cursive, and from my perspective, just lack the same quality of education I got. What makes it so sad is that I'm not even old, I'm only 30. It amazes me that someone 10 years my junior seems to have a completely different education than the one I got, and as much time as I find myself spending teaching people about government, mental math, history, etc, I have trouble believing that difference is progress.
I do think there seems to be a big gap but I'm not sure on the exact years of when it happens. A lot of the things you mentioned are necessary for life. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts too.
I forced myself to memorize multiplication charts. At first I hated it, but I am so glad I did that. Oh my god
Out in the field at a work site, a youngster's thingamajig died on him. He was totally lost so back to the trailer which had all the old engineering "tools" we oldtimers knew how to use. No batteries, solar, car charger, whatever it took worked. He bought that night. He also bought a new thingamajig. The new tools are great but you need the brain for backup. Use it or lose it.
@@richardw3470 one time I saw 2 concrete slabs get poured, on which there were going to be storage units placed. They used gps to lay everything out. They could almost be forgiven for the elevation being wrong, since they were just relying on the gps model they were given, but when I came in the do the parking lot around the slabs, I noticed immediately that the slabs were not parallel, they were 4 feet closer together on one end than on the other, and years later, I'm still wondering how they went from start to finish and never spotted that or measured just to be sure or anything 😂
@@samson9428 Poor site prep (which would have shown up before the units were placed or the surround done, hopefully), poor surveying or unfortunate boundaries. Some fellow in a nearby town put storage units (oddly enough) on a piece of private land squared with the street but with an old (now gone) RR bed crossing the street on an angle in front of them . They put 15 units in the back row and 13 in the front. (They could have done it like what you had, providing more driving space.) But, the reason was obvious to us old timers who remembered the RR. You should have asked why - just being curious, of course.
The fact that school lunches mostly sucked, but we loved them, and parents did not complain. Chewing gum in class was never allowed. I had one teacher that would have kids stick the gum on their noses if caught chewing gum. He only had to do that a few times a semester. Parents supported teachers. Parents would say,"then don't chew gum in class if you don't like wearing it on your nose."
I never knew anyone, including myself, who made it past Christmas Break without the Thermos in their lunch box breaking.
never had issue. the image was faded on lunchbox by end of year i loved my plastic character ones. i remember having cabbage patch one,care bears and one year my little pony(80's style of course) soup usually went in my thermos i either packed a juice box and or would take change so i could grab a milk in cafeteria. i was very careful with my lunch boxes i was kind of attached to them. in middle and high school insulated lunch bags were way to go. i only took lunch once in while and rest of time i got hot lunch.
I can remember rural schools in the 50's and 60's. I attended a one room schoolhouse with an actual stage in it (the building was also used for township board meetings). It was very interesting transitioning from a city elementary school to a one room schoolhouse with only 2-3 students in it in the mid 50's. The township schools closed in the late 60's and the surrounding city districts took on the students but by 1967-1968 I had graduated HS and was actually working on my doctorate at a well regarded university.
yep.. our school had 4 grades in one classroom! One teacher fits all. That place is now a township maintenance building. yep. Columbia, NJ its on Route 94 (well it used to be). If you have google earth take a look! this entire area has been extensively reworked when I80 was built through there... and when we lived there in the mid 50's a STEAM locomotive sometimes ran behind our school there. unreal the memories that comes back!
The problem that I always had with ditto copies was sometimes the numbers or letters were smudged and you couldn’t make out what they were which made it very difficult to do math problems. I remember going back to my teacher to find out from the original what it was I was supposed to be seeing
What a trip down memory lane. TY TY Rhetty. I went to a Catholic grade school in SW city part of Chicago in the 1960s for all grades. The school was brand new and beautiful for us first graders in 1961. I had an opportunity to go back a few years ago and they still have all the very same analog clocks in the same place on the wall in the classrooms. And they work!!! Laughed at smelling the mimeograph paper after the nuns handed out tests. TY for uploading this. Made me smile.
You're welcome and thank you for watching. I'm happy to hear this brought back some memories and I appreciate you sharing some of those with us. It's great that your old school has kept some of these features.
I'm a teacher and we still use several of those items: analog clocks (There's one in every room and we teach kids to read them), wooden pencils (The lead in mechanical pencils is always breaking, plus they print too lightly), pencil sharpeners (Most are electric, but there are still some wall-mounted ones), and pull-down maps (KIds are fascinated by these and they can't be easily replaced by computer projections). One thing missing from the obsolete list is paste. My students can't believe that I didn't have gluesticks when I was their age.
High school teacher here. While mechanical pencils are popular, my personal preference, wooden pencils are very much in use in the classroom. I keep a couple of boxes in the classroom for classroom use. I do however have an electrical pencil sharpener that gets good use during a typical school day. Best investment over the manual ones.
I think mechanical pencils are quite better with drawing.
I asked my daughter when she was in 4th grade, when are you going to learn Cursive (she looked at me confused) and said "were not learning that " I was like "Hell No" and I taught her myself 💪🇺🇲.
Good for you. At the absolute least,she should know how to sign her name.
@@Metalman200xdamnit that's definitely important.
@@jenniferhcsmith-5586 Or to be able to read historic documents.
So much yes!
I did the same with my now 17yo son when he was in third grade.
He hated it, but every week his spelling word lists (5x each) and other assignments were in cursive.
No way my son was going to go through life not being able to properly read things written so or be unable to do a decent signature.
@@babsbylow6869 I think cursive is important. It can be easier for long writing and it looks more professional.
And we need our young people to be able to read any cursive from way back when.
I was the last class in my elementary school to learn cursive. And yes, I did feel a smug sense of superiority when I wrote in cursive and my younger siblings couldn't read it.
Now we're all mature adults... And I still write in cursive when I'm mad at them lmao
bruuuuh cursive class was such a pain lmaooo But I guess having that skill does come in handy every once in a while
My 4th grader learned it in school last year in 3rd. Its still taught in some places.
Can't use that to write reports on government forms in three layers.Print and in small letters.
Knowing cursive writing in a world that's increasingly trying to abandon it makes me feel like a sideshow freak. Everyone is amazed that someone my age can write beautifully.
They started to teach kids to write in cursive at our schools about 6 or 7 years ago. That didn't last long, and kids now can't read it either. They still need to teach it because historically, a lot of things were written in cursive.
I loved this video. I frequently reminisce about the old school days. Thanks for putting this together.
So many of these things I remember having started grade one in 1959. School memories are probably the best part of my childhood. I still think of some of my teachers and friends I haven't seen in decades. Thank you for this trip down memory lane ❤
I remember our analog clocks were all syncronized so you knew down to the second hand when the bell was gonna ring. Had this all throughout school.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
Did you do the countdown on the last day of school?
@@dbergerac9632 I never had to take a bus. Was always close enough to walk. So I was never around at the end of the last day to count it down!! 😉 SHHH! Don't tell anybody! I didn't know about the synchronized clocks in elementary school so I never counted down then. Lol.
Didn't you dislike the kid who would ask a question just as the bell was about to ring? Ha! 🤗
@@AMYBIERHAUS ⚰
Big Chief tablets, mesh pencil bags, 64 count crayons with their sharpeners, gummy erasers with that unforgettable scent. I loved getting school supplies at the first of the year!
Also hall passes to go the the restroom, hall monitors and school guards to help you cross the street. And God help you if you were called to the principal's office!
Ahhhh....the smell of fresh crayons.
also the smell of wet wool when it rained and that crayola smell
Getting called to the office created my still-existing anxiety disorder!
@@harrietcraig6716 oh yeah and getting spanked too!
@@hiseyes I know I did-with a PADDLE!!!!!
I wish I had that lawsuit money now haha
Thank you for the walk down memory lane. I was born in 1966 and I remember a lot of the things you put on.
And I clearly remember the smell of the Ditto machine papers!!
I had a Peanuts lunchbox!
Peanuts, superheroes, and eventually TV series lunchboxes were the thing! I was born in ‘68 and remember everything in this video.
Unfortunately I remember all of the items and was also born in ‘68. In the 1970’s, we found my dad’s old slide ruler and I was fascinated on how it worked.
I had a Peanuts lunchbox, too! Still my favorite comic strip to this day!
I had a Peanuts lunch box as well! And a Trapper Keeper. I was born in 1970. I remember every one of the things in the video.
@@a.mathis9454 Why did you say unfortunately? The 60's and 70's was a great time to be a kid.
The opaque projector was often found in art classrooms, where it was used to project an image onto a large sheet of paper (usually, though not always, white butcher paper). The projected images could be enlarged by physically moving the projector farther away from the paper, and then manually re-focusing the image.
I do remember those but we never had those in my art classrooms. I'm not sure why not. Thank you for watching and sharing a memory.
Some lecturers at the University I attended would use the opague projectors though most would use the transparency projectors, a few old school profs used the chalkboards. We as students would use the opague projectors when painting the large scale banners for Queen week and our "cabarets", there an easy way to scale a drawing or picture to a larger scale. You only needed to have a student ID to sign out equipment, you could even rent equipment for an expedition including hang gliders and even University vehicles from the motor pool. I suggested doing this at an American university that I wound up working at and they were surprised that some Universities had such services never mind accessible to students.
My elementary school had a transparent projector for mathematics and my high school had an opaque projector for Art.
Used to be so exciting to see who checked a book out before I did. May have been a friend or a cousin lol. So much fun when things were so much simplier.
Those old metal lunchboxes were also battle weapons. 5:53 Almost every kid's lunchbox had a big dent in it. If little Johnny was bullying you you simply wallop him in the head with that lunchbox. Ah, the memories! 😂
I had a Combat! lunchbox.
Yes, you really didn't want to get hit by those. The thermos alone packed a punch.
And sadly, that's eventually what led to metal lunchboxes being banned in many schools. So then kids started bringing their lunches in plastic lunch boxes. . .and eventually, those got banned too!
I beat the crap out of a kid with a wonder woman box!
We had metal lunchboxes in the 60s but I never heard of that happening. Maybe girls didn't do it as much (?)
Hey Rhett,
Great video! Brought back many happy memories. Thanks for that. There are a few you obviously missed.
First, in Dodge Ball, you'd get a reversed image of the ball's surface pattern on any exposed skin if the ball was thrown at you hard enough. How about a globe in every classroom? Remember Big Chief tablets? Pencil boxes and 16-pack Crayola crayons? Rounded and dull "safety" scissors and paste that kids thought was edible?
Fire drills were always a great way to break up an otherwise dull day. And my personal favorite - air raid drills. "Duck and Cover" they called it. Like huddling under your desk after a nuclear bomb was dropped would save you from radiation exposure!
Good times!
I remember almost all of this. I miss this and enjoyed my youth minus the bullies. Great times.
brought back sooo many memories. it breaks my heart to know this world has changed like this!
The same feeling as going back to the neighborhood you grew up in.
And, we’ll never have it like that again!
Thankyou Rhetty for the walk back in time as i went to school in the 60s and 70s and what you showed was what we had i always put my hand up to go outside and bang the dusters from the chalk board :) Thankyou for the walk in time today Loved it
You're welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate you watching and sharing some memories. Anytime you could get out of class it was great!
We used to smack the long chalk board erasers on the playground blacktop. We would spell out words or messages.
I am age 36 now and was raised in a rural school. I remember all these items. Thanks for a great video
I think it’s important for kids to know how to read and write cursive, I will make sure my kids are taught by me. I also think everyone should know how to read an analog clock. My son’s school uses digital and periods have a tone that buzzes instead of a bell.
I do think it is good to know both. Thank you for watching!
I do agree, although I only use cursive to sign my name since too many people complain that they can't read my cursive. Probably due to the psycho nun smacking me on the knuckles for having sloppy writing.
To be honest. Cursive has always been an issue. People make up scribbles and just plain don't follow any convention. Because cursive just has to look nice. It's basically useless for anything. It's not a valid way to prove any authenticity in this day and age. And lastly you will practically never read anyone's cursive anywhere minus the odd card here and there.. better to teach them something useful.
I'll disagree about cursive - only because my teen son struggled with Maths in primary school and they spent 30mins everyday insisting they learn cursive and some of the teachers were nazis and wouldn't mark other homework unless it was in cursive, also he's left-handed and found it difficult learning from right-handed ppl, so fast forward to last September when he started Secondary school (high school) and all the teachers tell them not to use cursive, especially my son because his cursive looks like a serial killers handwriting (his history teacher was joking) but did tell him not bother with cursive, he and a few others said the same thing - it was a waste of time that could've been spent helping kids in other subjects.
Unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, almost no one has to do anything where writing in longhand is necessary anymore in life.
Oh the smell of the freshly printed pages! My granddaughter is 12. She cannot tell time on a regular clock. Has to be digital. They also do not teach cursive anymore. All of my kids had the Trapper Keeper. I still have one of those pencil sharpeners mounts to the wall here! And it still gets used. And it is still messy when it gets emptied lol. Wonderful walk down memory lane. Thanks!
You're welcome and thank you for watching! I think they should teach those things you mentioned. So many different records are in cursive. And what do they do when nobody can tell time on analog clocks? Change Big Ben to digital?
You can teach her cursive and reading the clock.
I was born in 1987, and started school in the 90’s, so I kinda feel like a hybrid kid. I remember most of these things, but some are before my time. Computer in school started to become a thing during my school days, but it was more of something extra.
@@wildfangsilco6365 yep. I remember when they were actually big snd floppy. Then they got smaller. 😆
When I was in school we used scribblers that had all kinds of information on them like times tables, rhymes to remember the month of the year and how many days each one had, weights and measures ( there wasn't metric at that time)
Unless you were born before around 1800 (when the metric system was adopted by many countries), you need to understand things exist even if you don't know about them.
Peechees!!
I was in first grade in 1960. We had most of that stuff but we had these old fashioned desks that had a lid that lifted up with a big space underneath so you could store stuff (books, paper, pencils, etc.). Of course the most unique feature they had was a little hole in the corner where you could put an ink well. We never used that feature of course because we had ball point pens by then.
That explains the hole in the upper right hand corner of the desk. I never thought about it. I was also first grade in 1960. My desks though did not open up on top and everything was placed in the open space of the desk under the seat.
Those came later. The first desks I remember had a seat attached to the front of the desk... obviously for the kid in front of you. And you sat on the seat on the seat attached to the desk of the kid behind you. They didn't open.
The inkwell hole held a glass jar, with a lid. Often used for dipping the girl's hair sitting front of you.
In my senior year, I worked in the school's library. I liked it. We had the Weekly Reader Book Club and I ordered as many books as I wanted every time! When it came to fundraising, we did it all school year (these days, they only sold candy for a week) and by the time I entered my senior year, the percentage of candy I sold helped to reduce the price of my prom ticket! Good Times!
Things were so simple yet we used our brains . The smells of school were unique , loved the mimeograph ink .
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.
I recall smelling it too.
I remember the pink stuff they sprinkled on the floor if someone puked had a distinctive deodorizing smell. I have cut stencils and operated a mimeograph. I don’t remember any smell to the black ink, but the blue ditto was lovely.
Best memories for me were when I worked as an A/V technician at my high school in 10th grade. I serviced all of the equipment during the summer. I still use a kind protractor and slide rule to this day, as a pilot. We just refer to them a plotter and an E6-B.
I have the same story, A/V repair, there were two of us, me and my buddy Robert. Lots of good memories there. We called slide rules slipsticks. The electronics teacher was the one that taught us how to use a slide rule, they weren't taught in any of the math classes so it was only us (cough) elite folk that took electronics that learned how to use a slide rule. And he called them slipsticks so we called them slipsticks. Of course pocket calculators were just coming onto the market then so before long even the electronics teacher gave up teaching slide rules.
E6Bs have gone the way of the dodo bird. EFBs Flight aware & Glass cockpits have replaced all of the old nav aids.
@@billmoran3812 Although quite true, mechanical E6Bs work without electrical power. They're a good backup to modern technology.
I’m so glad I lived in this world! Thanks for the memories
Loved this video! I went to school starting in the mid 60s into the 70s. Back in the early 70s, many of use used fountain pens. We also had real heavy manual typewriters that made typing difficult and slow. Thank you for this trip down memory lane! I remember most of the items in this video! I'm so glad kids are not subjected to Dick, Jane, and Sally! But I miss the old, simple school days!
Are you talking about 'Schaeffer' pens that unscrewed and you put in a cartridge of ink? I went in the same timeframe as you did. Owning one of those pens was like a status symbol, they were like 2 dollars. I remember doing my history homework while listening to 3 sports events at the same time, a 12" B/W TV and 2 radios. The ink that showed all over my fingertips the next day was like a badge of honor.
One could get pretty fast on a manual. If that’s all you knew, which was me.
I went to school all through the 60's and early 70's. It was really interesting between 1960 and 1965. We used an abacus to learn math. In high school we used slide rules. I'm glad I was able to go to school when I did. I loved the Dewey Decimal System. I could find books.
I know there isn't anyone using an abacus. I always remember my dad and a neighbor using those to keep score while playing dominos. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.
I used DD and LC. And all THREE card catalogs. Yeah, that was a requirement.
We used an abacus in 1st grade. That would have been 1983 I think.
@@3DJapan : I used one in the late 60s/early 70s. They're still used, but not taught like they are in Japan.
I bought my son an abacus and colored snap blocks to help teach him math. He picked up the abacus quickly, and used it for a couple of years until he was in first grade. They are novelties that help kids learn.
my middle school was mostly like this in 1980. my old middle school was built in 1960, and it used Longines nixie tubes. OH MY GOD. I REMEMBER DITTO MACHINES!
Where I live, we have a modern K-6 building, but we still use the same middle school and high school that our parents and grandparents went to, and most of the things mentioned here are still in use. The blackboards, hand crank pencil sharpeners, analog clocks, overhead projectors, the card catalogs are still there, etc. They've modernized quite a bit, but when it comes to a lot of stuff, they've taken the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. Granted, we were finally able to get funding to build a new building for grades 7-12, so it's only a matter of a few years before the old buildings are closed and all of that stuff is finally lost to time.
I've drawn on a chalk board in high school even during the 21st century. So, they aren't entirely gone from K-12.
I also remember those overhead projectors in one of my high school math classes; it's kinda interesting to imagine those things are on their way out.
What's ridiculous is the stupid Smart Board is a scam. Doesn't work all the time and probably cost a Mint!
I have a chalk board in my music classroom.
The inkpot and pen to dip into it to write is one of my favourites. It has been fun in subsequent decades to spot fake documents, because ball point pens for writing were not in use except for engraving on leather. (That is one way to point out that the infamous "Anne Frank Diary" was not aujthentic, except for the very beginning of it, which Anne Frank wrote out with pen-in-pot herself, while the forger used an inappropriate ballpoint pen.) Lots of fun; lots of spilled ink and stains on shirts!
I remember all of these being at my school-I got a Trapper Keeper every school year right up until I graduated high school in 1996. The squeak from the chalkboard would make me wince it was so annoying. Brought back a lot of memories for me.
I remember having a trapper keeper!
You were rich! My parents always refused to get me trapper keepers.
@@HH_The_Great my parents weren't rich-a local store in my hometown where I grew up had them at a cheaper price than other stores. Plus when I was a teenager and started working I saved my money up to get school supplies for the school year.
Kids today don't know what they are missing, ha, ha. So many memories. Thanks Rhett, another really enjoyable video.
It seemed like every school year we were required to have a protractor but we never used them but had to have them ( it was an ice pick with a pencil attached ) . I went through grades 1 - 12 from 1962 to 1974 so I remember all those things. Great upload as always Rhetty 👍
You're thinking of a compass. A protractor is the half circle measuring device a compass is the ice pick pencil combo.
@@davidabest7195 Yeah you're right , I totally forgot about the half circle things ( that also went un - used )
Omg I remember my kid being upset bc I didn't get the protractor on his supplies list for the first day of school. I would scream at him (light-heartedly not meanly) "Kevin you're not gonna need a protractor for at least another 3 months"!!
I got in so much trouble in typing class. I was a class clown. Great memories. Thank you for this video!! 😊
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
I worked on the school magazine in the late '70s in high school. We used an IBM proportional font electric typewriter. Only two people were allowed to pop the cover off that typewriter; the other one was the IBM technician. I've been working in the electronic repair field ever since.
I did typing as an elective in year 9. Only one other male in the class of about 30.
Funny thing is every computer has a keyboard. Forty plus years latter, I may not be able to type 40 words a minute, but I can still touch type.
One subject I do not regret taking.
I think I had every one of those. So funny. Especially when you said there’s a school tone instead of the bell, it’s been so long since I’ve been in a school I didn’t know there wasn’t a bell. What kinda crap is that ?!!!! School tone, don’t even sound right 😂. Thanks Rhetty
It literally sounds like a touch tone phone having a button pressed and broadcasted over the intercom. They took the bell systems out of the kids schools here even though the buildings are older. I'm not a fan of that. Surely those were not broken but maybe it's connected to the digital clocks. Thank you for watching Linda!
@@RhettyforHistory it’s kind of sad to see many of these things go. How fun was waiting in line to sharpen pencils, we could tell time with hands clocks for sure at 3:30pm lol. Oh well I’m sure these new things do a pretty good job as well. I don’t think “neatness counts” anymore either because they aren’t really writing their papers either lol. Thanks Rhetty
Yes, because of everything being typed in a computer many schools are not teaching cursive. I think it's still something that should be taught though. Think of all the cursive we see researching history! It's on important documents, family history, census accounts and so much more. Can you imagine us getting rid of something like Big Ben and just putting a digital clock there? There are a lot of town squares across America that have their own clocks.
@@RhettyforHistory exactly I still write my notes. I have ton notebooks. I don’t even exchange phone #’s like these kids lol. Ok I’m old but it’s the principle of the thing lol. Only thing they have now I’m GLAD I never heard of was a mass shooting lock down practice drill 🤦♀️
LOL Amen!!!
A few years ago, I created a curriculum called "Common Sense and Useful Skills."
It would stick with the student, K-12, and teach skills that they would need to set them up for success in life...such as money management, resume/job hunting skills, government awareness/learning the Constitution, etc. The Common Sense portion would teach kids various things such as to stay away from drugs, water safety, stranger danger, etc.
There would be also some lessons on simple home repair for the older kids, and bicycle/skateboard repair for the younger kids.
Just need to get it to the Department of Education and to get them to implement it.
That is an excellent idea!
Unfortunately, the schools not teaching students anything about life skills like money management is done intentionally .... The government wants the students to grow up to be slaves to the government & not know how to be financially successful. This is all done intentionally.
OK, according to this video I'm old. Still, I'm glad I grew up when I did and got to experience these things.