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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: vintagegal Date: November 15, 2018, 7:04 am
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I also used to go home for lunch, the first few grades. And I
would bring a dime to school for recess milk for the week, and I
think 50 cents for buying government bonds. I wonder when that
stopped being a thing.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: RubyCat Date: November 15, 2018, 8:53 am
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I think I started first grade in 1971. I walked to the closest
public school, usually with another group of children but no
adults, 0.4 miles in almost any kind of weather. Nobody thought
anything about it, it's just how it was. All I needed to bring
was milk money and my lunch. I had the cutest plaid lunch box!
Everything else was supplied.
In third grade I changed over to a parochial school and it was
pretty much the same. We could bring our own pens and pencils,
crayons and markers, but it was not required.
Fast forward to the late 1980's when my daughters attended the
same parochial school and I was given a lengthy list: crayons,
kleenex, purell(!) and so forth. When we moved and they went to
public school, the list grew: certain types of notebooks,
certain types of pens, pencils, markers, and so forth. One year
even required an expensive calculator. Some teachers were
really great about giving out a list at the end of the summer so
the parents could take advantage of sales. Others, for whatever
reason, did not give out the list until the first day of school.
I still remember walking the aisle of Staples, desperately
looking for certain items. The shelves were picked over and the
lines at the register were long. I don't miss that at all.
#Post#: 19077--------------------------------------------------
Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: camlan Date: November 15, 2018, 3:11 pm
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[quote author=Thitpualso link=topic=647.msg13250#msg13250
date=1536332189]
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.
[/quote]
I started Kindergarten in 1964 and it was very similar. For
Kindergarten, we were told the first day that we needed to bring
in a towel, which we put on the floor for our "rest" time every
day, and a "smock" for art class--usually an worn-out men's
shirt that the teachers would put on us backwards and button it
up the back. This was to protect our clothes from paint and
glue. We also got the fat round pencils about 5 or 6 times a
year--ours were a dark green--and had the really wide lined
paper. I walked the half mile to school every day from
Kindergarten on.
Somewhere around 2nd grade I got a book bag. And we started
having to bring in glue or paste and crayons. I had the 64
crayon box with the sharpener. We needed to buy notebooks from
about 5th grade on, but we could choose what we wanted--the main
thing was to have paper to write on.
I went to a mix of public, Catholic and Department of Defense
schools depending on where we were living. Never saw lists such
as they have today.
Almost never ate the hot lunch. Lunch was a sandwich and an
apple or orange, packed by Mom. Sometimes she'd slip in a home
made brownie, which I'd immediately trade for a Hostess cupcake
or TastyKake--we never, ever had those at home. I
brown-paper-bagged it until 2nd grade, when I got a red plaid
metal lunch box for my birthday. (And boy, did I want that lunch
box! Everyone else had a lunch box and I felt so out of place
with my crumpled paper bag that I had to bring home every day so
that it could be reused for a week at least.) Teachers collected
milk money weekly, every Monday morning.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Rose Red Date: November 16, 2018, 1:55 pm
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[quote author=RubyCat link=topic=647.msg19063#msg19063
date=1542293592]
I think I started first grade in 1971. I walked to the closest
public school, usually with another group of children but no
adults, 0.4 miles in almost any kind of weather. Nobody thought
anything about it, it's just how it was. All I needed to bring
was milk money and my lunch. I had the cutest plaid lunch box!
Everything else was supplied.
In third grade I changed over to a parochial school and it was
pretty much the same. We could bring our own pens and pencils,
crayons and markers, but it was not required.
Fast forward to the late 1980's when my daughters attended the
same parochial school and I was given a lengthy list: crayons,
kleenex, purell(!) and so forth. When we moved and they went to
public school, the list grew: certain types of notebooks,
certain types of pens, pencils, markers, and so forth. One year
even required an expensive calculator. Some teachers were
really great about giving out a list at the end of the summer so
the parents could take advantage of sales. Others, for whatever
reason, did not give out the list until the first day of school.
I still remember walking the aisle of Staples, desperately
looking for certain items. The shelves were picked over and the
lines at the register were long. I don't miss that at all.
[/quote]
Did you mean the 90's? I don't think they had Purell in the
80's.
Anyway it didn't seem my school was too concerned about health
and safety back in the 80's. Good times.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: RubyCat Date: November 16, 2018, 2:00 pm
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You're right. It would have been the 1990 and now that I think
about it, the Purell would have been for the youngest daughter's
class which would have been late 1990's.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: TootsNYC Date: October 16, 2020, 4:18 pm
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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...
[/quote]
I bought them for myself as a grownup. But I never used them,
actually.
#Post#: 59167--------------------------------------------------
Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: BeagleMommy Date: October 19, 2020, 8:31 am
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I started Kindergarten in 1970. For kindergarten all we were
required to bring was a mat/blanket for nap time and a smock for
painting.
From kindergarten through 8th grade the school provided all
pencils (we had the fat green ones through third grade; then
switched to No. 2), paper, crayons, paints, glue, etc. Third
through sixth grade it was recommended we bring a pencil box and
what was referred to as a book bag. Kind of a satchel with a
shoulder strap.
My mom always made my lunch but we had milk around 11 am that
cost .15. I usually got a new lunch box each year. Don't
remember most of them but I did have a Miss America lunch box
and a pink and white plaid one that I thought was so grown up.
My brother had Evel Knievel. Lunch was always some kind of
sandwich, fruit, a cookie (sugar-free in my case) and a thermos
of Kool-Aid (sugar-free in my case).
In high school we had to provide our own No. 2 pencils, blue or
black pens (red was for teachers only), and college ruled
notebooks. However, we had a "School Store" where you could buy
anything you might have forgotten at home and there was a pen
machine in front of the main office where you could buy a pen
for 10 cents.
When my youngest niece started kindergarten in the 90s the
teacher begged parents not to send boxes of more than 8 crayons
because the kids would drop them and then cry while they were
trying to put them all back in the box.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Gardensgrey Date: October 19, 2020, 9:39 am
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Ritual of a bygone era: I started kindergarten in 1960. My
parents had 5 kids. For weeks before school started, they would
double down on stockpiling brown paper grocery bags. The first
evening after textbooks were distributed on the first day, we’d
clear the dinner table & the book cover production line would
start. My parents wielded the scissors, cutting rectangles out
of all those grocery bags. The rest of us would fold those
rectangles around the books, making sure to make deep pockets
for them to slide in. Most of the time, these brown paper bag
book covers lasted all year. Back then, there wasn’t such a
thing as a store-bought book cover, and later on, only a few had
these.
#Post#: 59175--------------------------------------------------
Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: Wanaca Date: October 19, 2020, 9:58 am
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I remember the book covers. I stared school in 1970. First I
had the brown paper bags. Then I wanted the new fancy covers.
I hated the store-bought covers! They were waxy and I couldn't
draw on them. Part of the fun of the brown paper was that I
could draw and decorate my books any way I wanted. I went back
to the paper for the rest of my school years. And yes, they
lasted me all year too. It was cool at the end of the year to
see all of my doodles and drawings---and the various hearts with
initials that were crossed out.
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Re: Back to School: The 70s vs. Today
By: jpcher Date: October 19, 2020, 2:14 pm
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Oh, my, Gardensgrey! That brings back such memories! ;D
Doodling on the covers was a must! ;D
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