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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: vintagegal Date: September 5, 2018, 7:47 am
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Add me to the list of "always wished for the 64 pack of
Crayola"!!Never got them. When I look at what the grandkids have
now...
My late DH was quite the entrepreneur in grade school. He would
buy a 10 pack of pencils for 5 cents and sell them for 1 cent
each to other kids (1940's). He got taken by a pretty face when
a girl promised to pay him later and never did. Made him a cynic
at a young age.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Kimberami Date: September 5, 2018, 8:03 am
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[quote author=vintagegal link=topic=647.msg13049#msg13049
date=1536151676]
Add me to the list of "always wished for the 64 pack of
Crayola"!!Never got them. When I look at what the grandkids have
now...
My late DH was quite the entrepreneur in grade school. He would
buy a 10 pack of pencils for 5 cents and sell them for 1 cent
each to other kids (1940's). He got taken by a pretty face when
a girl promised to pay him later and never did. Made him a cynic
at a young age.
[/quote]
That is so cute! Never be taken in by a pencil swindling girl.
Last year, I think I hit every BTS scale in town. I put
everything in plastic boxes, and we only took what we
immediately needed. It was so nice to not have to worry about
rushing out to buy a report cover or a pack of index cards. I
barely had to buy anything this year because we had so much
leftover from last year.
My DD is too old to need crayons for school. When a store put
colored pencils on sale for .50 a pack, I picked up 10 packs of
them. DD laughed at me for getting so many, but they have gone
much more quickly that you'd think.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: kckgirl Date: September 5, 2018, 9:45 am
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One of my junior high school teachers required a red and blue
pen for her class. We had to write out questions that she wrote
on the chalkboard with red ink, and answer them in blue ink. I
don't know why she didn't hand out worksheets, unless the school
just didn't provide the paper and she didn't want to buy it on
her own (and who can blame her?). I got my Social Security card
in her Civics class. At the time, the application was on a long
postcard and only had to have the correct information on it...no
documents required.
I don't remember going to school with any more than paper and
pencil/pen on the first day.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: jpcher Date: September 5, 2018, 3:34 pm
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[quote author=kckgirl link=topic=647.msg13053#msg13053
date=1536158724]
One of my junior high school teachers required a red and blue
pen for her class. We had to write out questions that she wrote
on the chalkboard with red ink, and answer them in blue ink. I
don't know why she didn't hand out worksheets, unless the school
just didn't provide the paper and she didn't want to buy it on
her own (and who can blame her?). I got my Social Security card
in her Civics class. At the time, the application was on a long
postcard and only had to have the correct information on it...no
documents required.
I don't remember going to school with any more than paper and
pencil/pen on the first day.
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Maybe to help the students with their penmanship?
Does anybody remember the lovely smell of freshly mimeographed
worksheets?
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Hmmm Date: September 5, 2018, 4:03 pm
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Loved this.
I started school in 1970. The only changes from the article are:
1. Our little town was too small to have a Sears so we made a 1
hour drive to the nearest town with a Sears and a few other
stores. By the time I was around 10, Mom surrendered and started
driving us 2.5 hrs to a city with big malls. Each of us got $100
for school clothes that we had to use to cover clothing and
shoes. No fuzzy yarn in our hair and lunch was at Luby's
cafeteria.
2. I grew up in the south. School NEVER started after Labor Day.
Always in August. Lunch boxes and school supplies came from
Perry Brothers .5 & dime. Again, too small of a down to have a
any of the chain stores. But I do remember covering our books in
brown paper bags until around middle school when business
realized they could advertise and started donating special made
paper covers for the books with cut out instructions.
3. No one in my family smoked so that was a no go.
4. My mom was a Folgers coffee gal and never added sweeteners.
Bread was Mrs Bairds.
5. Spread yellow mustard one one slice and Miracle Whip on the
other. We hated baloney so it was either Salami or buddig turkey
meat. No cheese on our sandwiches.
8. No Twinkies ever were brought into our home. School lunch was
a sandwich, chips and a coke that we froze the night before so
it would still be cold and keep the sandwich cold.
9. Thermoses were only used later for soups. We got cokes for
lunch.
10. My mother was never silly enough to think we'd ever eat an
apple. Grapes occasionally made an appearance in our lunches.
11. Mom would then load us up into the car to drop us off at
school before she headed to work. No lazying around the house
for her.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: frog24 Date: September 5, 2018, 4:28 pm
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I confess to finding a certain serenity from writing my kids'
last name on every.single.crayon, marker, eraser, glue bottle,
pencil crayon, pencil, and notebook. (I use the last name
because when stuff comes back, I can reuse it the next year and
no one can complain "that's her glue stick, not my glue stick".
I accidentally bought too many of one type of notebook, and none
of the other type... so I went out today to get them. Turns
out, now that schools's started, everything's on clearance. I
might just print out the school supply list and stock up for
next year. (thankfully, we have the storage space in the drawer)
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Thitpualso Date: September 7, 2018, 9:56 am
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I started school in 1952 so I’m quite antediluvian.
Back then, the school provided everything we needed for the
first few years. When learning to write we used odd paper with
very wide rules. The paper also had dotted lines between the
solid lines. This was to indicate the proper height of lower
case letters. We also used very fat pencils that I have never
seen in stores. By 4th grade we were allowed to use ball-point
pens.
I attended a public school but girls were not allowed to wear
trousers. The end of summer shopping trip for a school wardrobe
included a pair of stout shoes (usually Buster Brown) and dark
cotton dresses. Pleated or circle skirts with white blouses and
cardigans or twin sets were also worn. We had book bags instead
of back packs.
Every week we brought 25 cents to school for milk that was
served at 11 AM but I never ate lunch at school. My friends and
I went home for lunch. It would be unheard of now but then, it
was perfectly fine for 1st graders to ride their bikes the mile
and a half from school to home for lunch and back. Kindergarten
was only half a day so lunch didn’t enter into the equation. In
7th and 8th grade we were allowed to go to the diner across the
street for lunch. How grown-up it felt to sit at the counter
and order a bowl of soup!
When I see the lists of things kids need for school these days,
i’m appalled. No wonder more parents are turning to home or
alternative schooling.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: frog24 Date: September 13, 2018, 5:03 pm
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The thing that makes me go ??? ??? ??? is how each school (in
the same school district) has a slightly different set of
supplies. My friend's kid needed the 18 pack of crayons, but
mine need the 24. :-\
If all schools are teaching the same curriculum, shouldn't they
all require the same supplies?
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: honeybee42 Date: September 22, 2018, 4:46 pm
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It can get even crazier than that ...
When I was going to grade school (in the 70s), you would receive
the next year's school supply list with the final report card
(so, last report card in 3rd grade, you'd get the supply list
for 4th grade). Now, they might specify things like wide-rule
vs college-rule, rounded-point scissors vs regular, and so on,
but it was pretty much left up to you if you wanted one notebook
in each shade of the rainbow, or some plain notebooks and
pictures on others (puppies, kittens, favorite sports team
logo), and the supplies were strictly one's own supplies.
The summer could be spent buying supplies a bit at a time, or
you could wait till the end and just buy it all in one fell
swoop. Several stores also had sealed up bags labeled "District
X, Grade Y" for the districts in close vicinity, and those bags
had just plain colored notebooks, none of the "cute" ones.
When I had my oldest in public school (which ended after first
grade--I homeschooled after that until moving to another state),
not only did it matter what school, but also which
teacher--because the two teachers of 1st grade at the *same*
school would have wildly different lists. And you couldn't get
the lists until after the first day of school, at which point
you had to run out and buy the ridiculously detailed supplies
(you *must* have pocket folders in red and green and spiral
notebooks in blue and orange. Do not even think about sending
your child to school with pocket folders in red and blue and
spiral notebooks in green and yellow). In the other classroom,
they'd have required pocket folders in yellow, orange and black
and a red spiral notebook. Teacher A might require 18 colors of
crayons, but Teacher B insisted that only colored pencils would
do. But they couldn't tell you in advance, because there might
be changes to enrollment that would mean they'd need to swap
kids around. Apparently the idea of standardizing the list
between teachers under the same school roof for the same grade
was too complicated.
What I wish they'd do now--and I see no reason why this couldn't
be done--since the high school has a faculty page with each
teacher's picture, why couldn't they put a link there which
shows which classes the teacher is teaching and each of *those*
links going to a supply list for the class. So if you are
taking Ms Apple's English Literature class, Mr Banana's
Accounting class, Mr Cherry's Geometry class, and Ms Diakon's
Chemistry class, you'd have the lists for each of those and
could make your shopping list accordingly if you liked to get
things done ahead of time, or wait until classes and get the
syllabus for each class to get the supply list and buy in a mad
frenzy the evening after the first day of school.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: nuku Date: November 14, 2018, 7:00 pm
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I started grade school in the mid-1970s, and I went home for
lunch until 4th or 5th grade (can't remember which). We would
walk to school, walk home for lunch (or to someone else's house
- my mom was one of the few who worked outside the home, but my
dad worked nights), then we would walk back for the afternoon.
Then walk home at the end of the day.
The first day, we had the "first day outfit," usually a dress
for girls. (Nobody wore shorts to school - and somebody 5 years
my junior was surprised to find out my public middle and high
schools both had dress codes.) I think that we might have
brought our pencil case and supplies on the second day. I never
used a bag until middle school - just carried what I needed. If
I had a big project to bring in, I would get a ride.
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