[blackdog]

I was in fourth grade back then. The school teachers had us convinced we were all going to die. We had to do plays which depicted life in the future. Respirators to breathe poison air, shaved heads for keeping skin clean of toxic dust, uniformed special hazmat suits to venture outside, soylent green kinda food.

Half the kids in the grade wore surgical masks for months. I realized it was a joke when my college age brother and sister just spent a month of Earth Day days playing Frisbee in the park to live bands and smoked a ton of pot during that month.

But those grade school teachers really worked us over. In a way it was a primer. I'm glad they did.

[jmacusa]

I was in the 7th. grade and yeah, the teachers had us believing we were all doomed. So being the smart ass I was I said “Does that mean we don’t have to do home work anymore?’ For that I got a ton of it.