St PaulsI was an Alter Boy there;)
Posted on 02/23/2018 6:55:50 PM PST by mdittmar
What Elementary School Did You Go To?
You don't have to mention the name.
Mine was a Catholic School,1st Grade through 8th Grade,learned a lot,those Nuns where tuff;)
Vera Elementary School was a 3-classroom school. My family moved from Baltimore (Essex), Maryland to Appomattox, Virginia in the middle of 3rd grade. My 7th grade class was 7.
Public school, fairly rural and small.
Forgot to mention that Madison High School stood on the corners of Epworth Street and Wilson Park in Rochester, NY. Built in 1922, it operated until 1981 and was demolished in 1983. We were called Wilson Parkers.
K-1 Thomas Edison, 2-5 Thomas Jefferson 6-8 Douglas Newcomb 9 Cecil B DeMille 10-12 Robert Millikan
Right by the Sloan Market.
You have got to have had fun with this post. I read through all the comments and it seems about every third one is a Catholic school.
For me it was Memorial Grade School. I remember beating Tommy Lawson to the door one time when the bell rang to return to class. I remember making a kite so well it did not need a tail. My grandpa helped me make a great telegraph key which I still have. He also helped me make a carbon arc furnace. At school we evidently did not take the same precautions as in his basement, because when the teacher lit it off it blew out every circuit in the building. At recess the girls and boys had different halves of the gym floor. I also remember playing dodge ball.
All this happened in the 50’s.
Douglas A Newcomb - 1964 to 1974
On border of Long Beach & Los Alamitos CA
a amusing mishmash of old school teachers ( men with crew cuts, women with simple high collar past the knee dresses ) and young hippies ( men who rode motorcycles and wore bell bottoms, women in miniskirts and VERY tight tops )
Dude - me Newcomb too, check my post above
French Elementary as a boy
Hardy jr high
Then forced busing turned public schools into mostly black
I did a year of that and after witnessing assaults on teachers and 16 year old 9th graders gang banging a 7th grade 12 year old girl in the mezzanine bathrooms and various knife fights and near student versus student knife fights my folks pulled me out and moved to north Jackson and put me in Jackson Prep 1971 in 9th grade and that was it pretty much
Prep is a Mississippi institution like French Camp or St Als in Vicksburg or all the various Delta academies
It’s just life there
Both my elementary and junior high both ghetto now
Harman Elementary, Oakwood, OH - late 1980s-early 1990s.
Felt like a private academy due to academic quality, well-engaged parents, and not many worries about walking home. That, and no shortage of “old money”.
Went to a Catholic school in Seattle, which in those days (1956-63) was actually a Catholic school. Now, it’s nominally Catholic, but basically takes its cues from the surrounding secular, “progressive” culture. It is NOT prophetic in any sense, but rather a follower of secular trends, with a veneer of Catholicism. They like Pope Francis.
St. Francis of Assisi K-12. Then Allentown central catholic 9-12. Then public college, Florida state....wow what a difference. Lol.
Newcomb 1964-1967. The lesbian history teacher hated me. Nachbor
K- 1/2 3rd grade = BVMs
1/2 3rd Grade - 8th Grade = PHJCs
One were deadly with the rosary, the other were deadly with the erasers\pointers
Did you ever swim at Spur Six, between Hattiesburg and Purvis?
My grandmother would take us there during the summer, but she ruined it for me one year but throwing a big rock in before she let us swim.
“Hold up children, let me scare off the snakes!”
St PaulsI was an Alter Boy there;)
Robert E. Lee, Fayetteville, TN
Razed years ago.
K-6, public school where we held paper drives, played kick ball and red rover red rover. You had to know your tables. You had to read books. You had to say yes sir and yes ma’am. Very typical of the times
I actually came from a ‘divorced home’; but the extended family filled-in, as I know many families do today.
The problem today is that so many kids are conceived mindlessly from the beginning; with too many of those responsible NOT taking proper responsibility after the fact, for what they’ve done.
Warwick Elementary, which later was renamed for the local police chief, Samuel S. Yellen. Later, Sullivans School in Yokosuka, Japan, for a short time before being transferred to Kinnick, aka Yo-Hi, in Yokohama.
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