(What school was like) Learning during my 1970s High School years

Metallicman ^ | June 2018 | editorial staff

[vannrox]

Do you remember what it was like going to High School in the 1970s? I do. I most certainly do. In fact, the older I get the more removed that I am from it. As time passes, it starts to look like some kind of a scene from “The Twilight Zone”. The truth is that the kind of life that I had growing up is really alien to the way kids grow up today. That is worrisome, and it really concerns me.

When an American intern comes in to work for me, I am stunned just how absolutely helpless they are. They do not realize that they must go to work before the start of the working hours, and cannot leave until the workday is over. They don’t realize some of the most fundamentals regarding self-initiative is totally missing from them. American kids today are robots, or maybe zombies. They need and expect constant supervision. They are afraid to do anything.

Now this only pertains to my American interns.

The interns that I get from Germany, France, Singapore, and England are just fine. What is wrong with America? What are they teaching in schools there? Ugh. I think that I will devote another post to cover that subject. As it is truly alarming.

Whenever I berate an intern about something that they did wrong, I often use examples from my childhood. I use them to illustrate key points. Such as, [1] you need to eat breakfast at home before you come to work. [2] Showers are not optional. [3] Don’t check your Facebook when you are in a meeting with the boss. [4] Lunchtime is for one hour, and long lunches are not an option. As well, as a pet peeve of mine, [5] you must

[seawolf101]

Some families still had black and white tv’s and no remote controlled tv’s. We actually had to get up and change the channels. We had to walk across the living room in our bare feet all day long.

We had Saturday morning tv shows for kids. Kept the kids busy while the parents could sleep late on Saturdays.

[ABN 505]

Did your shop teacher have all his fingers? Mine did not.

[Vision]

“American kids today are robots, or maybe zombies. They need and expect constant supervision. They are afraid to do anything.”

They're being groomed to implement socialism.

[cyclotic]

One early winter, I had outgrown my rubbers. We had an early snow. I had to endure the indignity of walking to school one day wearing bread bags outside my shoes in 6” of slushy snow.

I’m 55 and still mad at my mom for that one.

When I was three, I had red rubber boots with a single snap at the top. I was outside playing in the snow by myself. I came in and heard my parents downstairs so I started walking down the steps and slipped. I distinctly remember falling down the stairs. Bounce, red, bounce,red, bounce,red

[suthener]

I graduated public high school in 1977. School was an absolute joke for the most part. I don’t think it was as bad as it is now, but I remember debating a teacher about Jimmy Carter (guess who was for Carter). I learned my work ethic from my parents, not school.

[usconservative]

Back in the 60’s, I had to walk uphill 10 miles in the snow to get to school, then another 10 miles uphill to get home.

Oh yeah? I had to do it barefoot!

[DaveA37]

“Do you remember what it was like going to High School in the 1970s? “...………

Better yet, try the 50’s, it was even better back then.

[foreverfree]

TBH, I found that annoying too. I thought vladimir was bashing the very existence of the medium of filmstrips. I never thought about the sound cue.

ff

[DAC21]

” It was replaced by the Sabin vaccine, which was taken orally, during the Kennedy administration”

Yep I remember lining up with the Family at the local school for the sugar cube dose around 1962/63

[victim soul]

Thanks so much for posting. Many memories here.

[mkleesma]

“You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank.”

Oh God, I’d forgotten this sketch.
I’m laughing so hard, I’m crying.

Thanks for that.

[Spok]

I never finished high school but was drafted in 1969. My CO (Ft. Monroe, Garrison Company), ordered me to the education center to take the GED. I ended up getting a doctorate.Captain Cade saved my life.

[Texas resident]

I jumped off the roof with an umbrella. Hey, it worked in the cartoons. Hit the ground hard.
We used to take a whole roll of caps and hit them with a hammer. Big boom. So to do better, I got a 2 lb hammer and hit the whole box. Scared the hell out of the neighbors and my mom.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Civilizational Collapse Bump

[Karliner]

I think the last generation that received an education through elementary and High School was the 60’s and 70’s. The 80’s was sketchy and 90’s even more so. Now it’s home school despite all that money from the ;lotto( California, what does one expect) and education initiatives. The worst is the lack of morals kids do not have because they never received it a t home and the schools reinforce their lack of morality and it has spanned the whole of the education system in one huge and failed social engineering experiment and psuedo-science and common core stupidity.

[Daffynition]

You missed the 50s. *Those* were the years!

Filling the inkwells! My favorite classroom chore. Carrying a jacknife. *Clapping* the erasers outdoors. Man, you haven't lived.

[Karliner]

I jumped off the roof with an umbrella. Hey, it worked in the cartoons. Hit the ground hard.

You should have used a beach towel with a red "S" on it with a marker pen. Didn't work either.We just learned how to roll..ha ha.

[OregonRancher]

Class of ‘60. What always amazed me was the underground telegraph, how your parents always knew how and when you had screwed up at school and how you had been disciplined. My mom had “the look” when I got home, and then there was Dad!!

[thesearethetimes...]

Bump!

[IrishBrigade]

‘I graduated HS in 1971. I stay in touch with my old classmates on facebook. Quite a few of them are looney leftists.’

I’m the class of 1967...the most dodgy millenials today have nothing on some of my classmates, judging from their FB postings...