There was no cafeteria at the 4 year high school, and we packed out lunches every day. We could buy 8 oz of milk out of a cooler for a nickel.
ALL tests were scored on the 100% rules & there was no ‘Curve’ in scoring tests. We also wrote in CURSIVE... and we ere judged on that, also. We also could do alot of math in our heads. Love those flash cards from 3rd grade up.
Misbehave & you got detention after school in the Library. If you played football or band or such, you still got detention, and lost time in the other activities.
Large companies came around every spring & tested seniors who wanted to be tested for jobs in their companies.
I had typing & 10 Key calculator in typing class. I still cannot type worth a damn, but I am a whiz on the 10-key. I got recruited by Kroger for their Divisional offices in Madison, Wisconsin, and that was my first real full time job. Bought my first car (1957 Pontiac hardtop) just when I turned 18, and paid for it thru the credit union out of my paycheck.
When I was 29, I took night classes in Accounting while working full time & overtime, & have been a self-employed bookkeeper for small businesses since 1980.
The rules we were taught at home on a dairy farm & the rules we were taught in both of those schools have served me very well in my life.
I am glad I don’t have a job anymore where I hired & fired applicants. There are none today I would even talk to.
I have 3 brothers, all of us about 2 years apart.
It took a whole loaf of Wonder Bread & peanut butter & jelly EVERY school to make our lunches. My brothers could eat 2 or 3 of such sandwiches. Plus an apple, most of the time. Got the milk out of the cooler for 5 cents.
I work in a very special field now.
The new people are few and far between. Being on time is a biggie. We tend to hire 35-60.
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!!