A carton of milk a dime....did you go to school in the 60s...lol!
I vaguely remember paying a dollar 50 for school lunch!
In high school Friday's were the big day as far as lunch went $2 would get you two lunches of hamburger and fries. They also had a sandwich line every day where you could grab a PBJ, Bologna, Ham, etc and a bag of chips. In the early 1970's kids generally weren't over weight. PE was required in high school till senior year and recess in lower grades was an 45- minutes - hour outside if weather permitted or about 30-40 minutes in the gym if it didn't. During the spring when we had finished out text books for the year recess after lunch would often be nearly two hours. School year began the day after Labor Day and ended Memorial Day weekend.
The teachers managed to get all required instructions in, we retained what we were taught through the summer and had about a two week review when summer was over, and our older teachers had gotten their certificates before Marxism had taken over education. Mildred Doyle the Super of Knox County Schools ruled with an Iron Fist LOL. A no nonsense lady who wasn't PC nor were the schools. Anderson County same thing. John Rice Irwin kept it to the basics.
I’ll be 67 min Aug. I started Kindergarten in 53.
I got $.50 a day, out of that came my city bus money and milk in HS. Hessville, Ind, a berg of Hammond, Ind 30 miles from Chi town in Illinois.
We were considered at the low end of middle income. 4 kids + parents. Dad was a Boiler Maker in a steel mill. Youngstown Sheet and Tube. We were always in debt, no matter how frugal you lived. No welfare, food stamps back then.
And health ins was the pits back then too. None of the good stuff we get today.