School Items No Longer Used 

Our name was printed on a piece of white paper (thick like a cereal box) and taped in the upper right corner. The teacher said the student w/neatest, cleanest name board at the end of the year would receive a prize. Don't know how but I won; can't for the life of me remember what the prize was. It was over 70 yrs ago, tho.

I hear you, I love those things and had my name on it too. One day, they just changed it without saying anything and made a weird excuse was ''the boogieman''' did it lol

I REMEMBER MAKING USING construction paper then taped to the edge of my desk lol, i'd use it to hold pencils or other class things. 1980's elementary school through 90's highschool

@@tsm4201979 being the 90s kid, I used it often but they took it away because ''I over used it'' lol

Our desks had an open ended metal box affixed to the underside of the desk. This seems much easier than having to disrupt what you were doing to get out a new pencil.

One time before the teacher was about to use the overhead projector 📽 I lifted the glass, took a staple from a stapler and put it under the glass. When the teacher turned the overhead on, the staple showed in the middle of our worksheets and the entire class including myself were killing ourselves laughing and even the teacher found it a little bit funny. Then the straight A smart Alec stood up and said “Matthew put it into the overhead!” The teacher then looked back at him and said “OK” as she didn’t care. He was jealous because he didn’t think of that prank himself.

Yes it was a treat:😂😂🤣🤣 Naptime!

I would fall asleep! I suffered from narcolepsy and did not get treated for it until my 40's.

i remember doing math problems on those while in middle school mostly 94 to 97. each student had a turn to solve problems show our work. i think that first time i learned of dry erase markers. it was better than having to walk up to the blackboard still used then too having rest of class stare at your backside. i hated that so much it made me anxious. these would be in middle of classroom and the rest of classes eyes would be on the wall where projected

the lights being off nice too i always had sensitivity to lighting and i still do.

I did that into the 80's in middle School.

Yes I remember

Where I lived we used Sunday comics, they were big sheets, the paper was a little stronger than the newspaper, it was colorful and it didn't matter if it was torn or some scoundrel took it from the book to read what was on the back of the page. page, you just had to wait for the following Sunday.

I was doing that in the late 90s

brown paper bags to cover books i had too until i started high school in 1996. we had sticky kind. i always made sure show my teacher that was non damaging kind. they were easy to peel off end of year and they lasted whole year. i used to have to have help as i am terrible in math esp measuring for the covers. usually my books had to be recovered 2 or 3 times a year. learned how to fold and place on and tape the covers at least. and yes some crayola markers and or sharpies to doodle on. i used to do same thing in middle school with binder system required. we had to have zipper up binders and my sis and i were able pick new one each year because we always put grade year and ournames and drawings those only sharpies worked but was all good. my mom was cool we got to each year even in hs to pick out new jansport backpacks esp wanted different colors and the zip up binders we allowed by mom were the Five-Star brand. we had trapper keeper stuff in elementary. in binders we had our you got it 5 subject college ruled five star brand notebooks and a few folders. an area to keep our planners. we had have parents sign we did our homework in middle. no need for pencil pouches most of my stuff fit in areas made for pens and even a calculator spot they got heavy but carry our books make bit heavier of course we had plenty of locker time so i only carried what was needed. we always up until end of high school had to have a regular 1.5 i think inch binder because in math we always had notebook checks so we had separate notebooks for math notes. those checks counted as test grades which i was grateful for because it was an easy A. math itself was the biggest anxiety stress ridden subject for me i still cry. though i did less crying when taking math class in college.

The Library was the middle ground that I used to skip school.. We had a Seminar class during my senior year, with that block scheduling leaving an hour and a half of free time, supposed to be used for homework, study time, which wasn’t ever needed the last two years.. So, I would sign out of seminar class, to the library, after quiet time allowed it so, I think that was a half an hour wait.. Then I’d sign in at the library, but left it not signed out ever.. Like I was caught up in a good book, and would forget the time, was the hopes of anyone noticing anything.. Then one day, 50 skips later approximately, my seminar teacher had caught on to my not returning to class.. Told the principal about the incident and I was called down to the office.. Walk was a solid minute at least to reach that office, so I had time to think up the best story I could.. He asks me why I didn’t return to my seminar class and my response was waiting for that question.. I say, yeah, I had some diarrhea issues that kept me in the bathroom, so I didn’t make it back before the bell rang.. It was a seller response, as I didn’t get in trouble, but took it as a fair warning that I’d better not skip school anymore, as they would now be looking for that action from me, like a hawk..

Are you kidding? These DOLTS don't even know WHAT a library is. let alone WHERE one is!

It is still a must at University, computer catalog or not. So kids better learn how it functions at some point.

Sure The Dewey Decimal System is still used; it's not hard to learn. But the physical card catalog no longer exists, it's all digital.

@@22ergie man’s saying this when almost every school has a library

Yes, my kids school still has them!

Yes, but if you had mean parents like I did, you only got to look through the catalogs and WISH you could have some of those books.

They still have them and they still have the Scholastic book fair 2-3 times a year.

I remember how excited I was when I got a free dictionary with my order. I still have that dictionary.☺️📖

yes! i loved those!!

Those were great pictures to remember everyone in your class and to see how they changed. I don't think too many schools even do that anymore. Thank you foe watching and sharing your memories.

I came across my 3rd grade class picture last week.

My elementary kids still take class pictures. =)

That's good to hear!

My 3rd grader still gets group pictures.

That's cool as hell.

Ah! What's the name of the book?

That is a treasure

LEONARD NIMOY?? like fr fr???

WOW! Your dad, like Leonard Nimoy, surely lived long and prospered!

don't be sad - most of these are still used in the US today! not every child experiences all of them, of course, but many of them will have some :)

We're all going to die. :(

@@MartenFerret Says a GenX, Millenial...yeah, sadly, some of us Boomers sooner than others...

@@birdsfan57 I'm in my 40s. ^_^

@@MartenFerret Count your blessings...you still have much life ahead...make the most of it!

Yes! Ambushed!

In first grade we had a overhead projector

I remember that!

Lost memory brought back

I remember that bs

Our high school choral music teacher found free " dress clothes " ( to wear for concerts ) for choir members who couldn't afford them . All kept secret - I only knew because the teacher was a family friend .

Wow, your mom is/was a very good person!

That's very admirable of your mom. I'm sure he appreciated it.

What a sweet mom you have ❤

Yes. I witnessed many acts of kindness. My father taught 5th and 6th grade for 33 years. Won a national teaching award twice. I saw him do many acts of kindness with no recognition in and out of school.

Mine too ha still had most of these (Btw it was a expensive private school)

@@Monsterathecat some teachers loved them old is sometimes better I taught in 2017 and used an overhead projector kids preferred it over newer could see better.

It means the cost your teacher union outweighed the tech budget lol

It may have been old but none of matters, old or new, if you don't have a teacher who can make things stick in your mind.

Cool! It would have been great to tour your school. It would have been like a time travel field trip.

Me too

Now you know how we older people feel, who went from rotary phones to smart phones. From typewriters to computers. Etc, etc etc!

loved writing on the chalk board also land lines and caller id.

I remember in primary / elementary school when in 6 grade in 2005 the school I went too had all the chalk boards changed to white boards.

Book covers are another item not really used. That used to be mandatory where I was for awhile. Thank you for watching and sharing another item for us to remember!

For me, it was Fry's paper bags that got a new life on text books.

I went to school in Mississippi in the late 1970s and 1980s. Even though I went to Catholic school, we got book covers from the state. Occasionally, the power company would print them. On the first or second day of the year, they'd give us our textbooks, and there was a big stack of covers. At the end of the year, we'd pull them off, toss them in the trash, and turn the books back in. Probably the most fun day of the year, since we were done until next fall...unless we had a summer reading list.

So funny us too in Montreal except with ‘Kraft’ paper bags. Btw. Piggly Wiggly store is on an old blues song ‘ Groceries on the Shelf ‘ by Victoria Spivey ( I think) we don’t have the here but I know about them from the song. Lol

@@johngore7744 Piggly Wiggly was a franchise brand, I think, and they were typically smaller stores. They almost completely disappeared for several decades but seem to be coming back, usually in poorer areas of towns and cities.

I always looked forward to that and most of the time I would buy a book!

SBS books!

Yes! I loved the Weekly Readers too and could always find books to order every time! 🤗

Me too! I remember the Weekly Reader and SBS Books. I always checked off the ones I wanted and used my allowance to buy them! Innocent times.

Man, I loved those Weekly Readers-I also used my allowance to buy a book as well. Sometimes I hid my book I was reading inside my textbook so it would look like I was working on my assignments but in reality I was getting to the good parts of the book so school work had to wait a few minutes longer lol.

Ah yes back then being rich wasn't like owning a Lamborghini or having the latest iPhone (I'm born from 2008 but vintage stuffs fascinate me)

That’s fantastic that you’re teaching them to read analog clocks! Do you also teach cursive?

Good for you

I do think it is something they need to know. Thanks for teaching them still.

Why? What’s the point of learning that.

My son saved his allowance and chores money and wanted to buy a watch. We went back and forth about analog or digital--I won out. His analog watch is often a curiousity to other kids.

Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts.

Same here!

Matt Brem, I attended school from 1989-2002, & I too remember everything in this video, & I was also unaware of it all being retro & defunct.

Many schools do not give grades like we got in school. The school where I teach uses a mastery system. Instead of 5 different letter grades. We have only 3 levels. Mastery, partial mastery and non mastery. Nobody, including the parents like it.

Started school in 1977, the teachers still paddled your behind for bad behavior, and also standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Still wished I had my CHIPS lunchbox!

This is still a thing. There is even a website where you can order from them. I love buying books for the kids, and the teachers classrooms will get benefits if I order a lot of books.

my mom was so glad i wanted books all the time oh yes those flyers i would pick out one paperback and i would look forward to the day of book delivery to classroom. i wish scholastic book fairs were more than once a year like 2x. we had special reading incentive programs schoolwide find primary and elementary that each year end we'd have parent night special ceremony on awards for reading. i miss the family fun nights from primary when i went and then my sister's our parents always took us. my primary school is now apartments. i cried when i found out i really wanted to show my nephew where i went to for first and second grade. sometimes the books i ordered i would keep in my bag for free reading period which super relaxing end of day activity once a week.

@@tinabastarache2674 My kids have it once a month, and there is a website. Maybe you can order books from the website?

@@aliceDarts oh i mean it be once a month for the flyers but each year we an actual book fair cases of books and accessories would be in an area and each class would be called down for their turn to spend half hour looking and buying things with money my mom sent money for those too. we would have no idea what on shelves on the special day like flyers would have names and pics so we had time to go through them and pick. the flyer thing was something handed out regularly in class during day i would look at it and circle items i would like only could get one my mom rule. it was exciting just to get those flyer. i don't need to order any books i don't have any children but when my nephew is bit older i would give him money to order. he is in kinder so he hasn't begun the beginning of reading yet like only 4th day in most teachers try to establish rules and routines teaching kids basics on using school supplies. my nephew on first day of school fell asleep on bus we didn't know he was on bus when going pick up. my poor bug was so tuckered out from the day he rolled off seat to floor and rolled under. when he falls asleep he tend's to do that. it's hard to yell to him wake up he don't even wake up when rolling off. when he crashes he tends to get "night" terrors he don't remember anything but super scary for us adults. he may not hear me but i would say grab leg not hard and say it's alright you are ok. no one left u in car. glad bus drivers have two ways never seen my sis book so fast to get to the school. he was awake still tired not crying or afraid. i can't order from scholastic unless i am a teacher or parent or student and you have to provide info including grade and school name.

The book fairs were one of my favorite parts of the school year.

I had some teachers using overhead projectors, chalkboards and even the pull down maps when I was in high school in 2009-2012 I remember everyone making a big deal when one classroom got a smart board. It didn't always work though lol

My community college has digital versions of overhead projectors which connect to the same projection unit as the computer does. The problem is that the professors are to old to understand how they connect, and the students are to young to know how to use them.

@@itsmefm I was also in high school around this time and I remember this kind of thing as well. When I was a junior, our school got its first smart board. I just so happened to be in the classroom that had it (it was a math class). The teacher seemed to really like it, but I found it odd and distracting. I couldn’t understand why she didn’t just use the whiteboard, especially since the smart board technology wasn’t very good yet, and it malfunctioned all the time. I guess it didn’t really help that she was learning how to use it and wasn’t very tech savvy in the first place. Sometimes she would try and enlist the tech savvy kids to help her “fix” it and I always loved those moments because it meant we didn’t have to do math for a portion of the class period. Lol.

@@MiMi_MoMo yes omg it was funny to see everyone struggling with the smart board lol

I still had teachers using them in 2012 (10th grade), and they're still used in some places in the country (and the world, i'm sure) now

Still have one.

We had pencil boxes back in the 60's. It was _The "Flintstones" or "Maverick", "The Rifleman_ " hit TV shows of the times. The same for Our Lunch Boxes. My favorite one was "ZORRO" ..🤗

@@garychambers5850 When there were THREE television networks, right?

or a cigar box before pencil boxes

@@Birdbike719 Panatella or Cheroot? LOLOLOL

It seems strange seeing the clocks and bells gone. It just doesn't feel like school. Thank you for watching Robert!

I’m shocked to hear that some kids can’t read analog clocks! That’s not good in my opinion!

I don't think so either but I guess it's disappearing in other places too. Cell phones and computers are all digital too.

@@Maki-00 it's TERRIBLE! My daughter teaches middle school and when she told me that I was quite surprised to say the least!! They also do not learn cursive! What we should do is get a petition together to cut out a bunch of the stupid state and federal testing that they have to spend so much time teaching two and then doing during the school year! In my opinion it is ridiculous. Especially doing it this year when everything is so crazy with Covid. They still do testing this year with all that school online and missed!! DUMB! (And it's not the teachers it's those higher powers that requires us just FYI in case you didn't now. Sometimes people blame teachers for things that they absolutely have no control over. )

So much for the old prank of reversing the wires so the clocks ran backwards and putting in an appropriate paper face plate to match.

Same here

I don't think everything in school should be all paperless, but I also don't think that they should go to the no technology route. Paper and technology both have their pros and cons and places in the world.

​@markrapacki5855wow!

Oh yes. I had to have it. However, I hated using it. It was always so awkward.

Before them, we used a Pee Chee

Trapper Keepers are still available, fortunately. I just bought a brand new one with an awesome retro design on it. I love it.

Ah, so that's why Cartman was making such a big deal about it.

@@tswain92_ most definitely, they were wide and almost always were a bit difficult to get into backpacks. But they had the coolest designs and artwork especially the Lisa Frank ones.

I homeschool my kids, and we have one too. 😀 We do so many things the old way. I didn’t realize just how much had changed. Man, I’m glad I’m giving my kids the older experience.

They were good only if they were sharp. I had to deal with having to clean it out and finding it to always be stuck with pencil tips or dull.

@@Shastasnow I was thinking you were going to talk about electric pencil sharpeners replacing the manual ones, instead of replacing the pencils themselves.

some of those sharperners were quite flimsy though they did job but added to noise. i only used them up until middle school then i brought my own sharpeners.i really used mostly mechanical pencils(BIC brand was the standard) those sharpeners sometimes had issues like one size the hole is blocked and handle wont turn sometimes break the actual pencil. i broke lead a lot writing so i hated to have to keep getting up to sharpen my pencil like ok no you don't need to watch me stare i would give the whole class.

i mean those sharpeners echoed swear next class over could hear it

It's probably toxic, but I'll bet a tattoo place has them. They use them for portrait transfers.

Totally agreed! They lost the smell once they cooled off, but we all loved it when they handed out freshly printed warm worksheets.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 My best friend is a tat artist and everytime she inks me I get that nostalgic feeling when she places the purple transfer on my skin. She was homeschooled and has no idea what she missed out on. There's just no way to describe the distinct scent of ditto's warm off the press!

I recall the fresh worksheets as cool & a little damp, with that fabulous smell. I did sometimes take home the empty gallon "gas cans" of ditto fluid for my own projects. I was an introvert loner much of my school days, but never had a bad teacher. I saw little of the processes of school, and did OK, but not so much in math after 6th grade.

Exactly

I got to!! ...i went to elementry scholl from 1977 to 83....but the scholl was built in 1939!!! .... it closed as a major use school a few years ago ..they let us tour it...the big chalk boards...even the smell was the same!!!

Lmao, I remember hoarding snack money my parents gave me, to use in the snack bar. I would usually end up spending it on CDs. This is how I was able to build up a CD collection during my school years, without a job, lol.

Or.....maybe you are leading a path of change! I know the feeling of schools and places of work being gone. Not only that but my childhood home is too. Life is full of change but it is fun to look back on some of our memories. Thank you for watching and sharing some of yours!

Is your college now an airport?

@@aTribeCalledBreast No, but it changed its name! It's now a university.

My first school is boarded up and for sale. The second one was from 1921 and is long gone. Getting older so I know more and more about things that are less relevant. Programmed on a mainframe in college. Most all of the tech in college is in a museum now.

It's always sad to see those old schools boarded up and abandoned. I can just picture them with kids running around and laughing with friends.

Nerd!

The huge black and white tube type TV hanging from the ceiling. Spanish lessons and history lessons twice a week on PBS. All the kids learned to mimic the voice over "The following is an educational program provided by the Public Broadcasting System, the [blah blah whatever the rest was]"

I picked up a GE click radio from 1954/55, damn thing STILL works and keeps time as good as anything. But you DO have to wait for it to "warm up." Lol a thing I haven't seen since I was little with very old b/w tvs in the 70s. Remember the "dot?" It'd be there 20 minutes after you shut it off. Lol

Thanks school for thaught me how to read a clock!!!!

We still have a analog clock in our house

Keep the cog alive.

we have analog clocks in our school still.

Same year here.

When you were in grade school did you have a big climbing rope in the gymnasium we had one we had to climb and two stories high and it had a little Matt laying underneath it I wonder if they get away with that now

Of course we had that. I couldn't do it well even though I was in good shape.

Me too, 1977

Just goes to show how long these classroom items were standards. I graduated in 2014 and when I started school, they were almost all still very much used, but as I got older, they gradually fell out of use.

Ahhhh....the smell of fresh crayons.

also the smell of wet wool when it rained and that crayola smell

@Harriet Craig oh yeah and getting spanked too!

@Harriet Craig 😂

I could find information faster flipping through cards. I hate the linear logic to online catalogs.

My class was pretty much the final one who was taught to use a card catalog. By second grade, they had computerized. I never mastered how to use it but I was taught

You're not strange : ) I used to run away from school and go to the town library and the Dewey Decimal System was something I was an 'expert' in. : )

@@yellowbird5 Old school is the ONLY school. Class of 1980, Dearborn High, in Dearborn, Michigan, or as we called it, "Dog Bone High".

I had no problem getting books from the Library. I'm talking Jr. High and High School. If I needed help, there was always the librarian there for help. 📖

Red Rover was certainly another game that could be unforgiving. I have to wonder if that is played anywhere. Thank you for watching and bringing up another memory for us all to remember.

I actually prefer the Dewey decimal system. If I was in a particular part of the stacks, and I didn't find the exact book I was seeking, I could browse similar works on the same subject without having to know the name of the text ahead of time.

Dodge ball terror! In the 70s our coaches would announce kill ball. 🤨

You're right about that. There were certainly times where you could find another book.

That Dewey Decimal system was so nonsensical!

I think mechanical pencils are quite better with drawing.

My school's desks had a platform under the seat for the books.

@@rinatail7248 At least ya had that much! :)

Just imagine the lawsuit if a sight impaired kid fell over them and got hurt...

I always thought those old-fashioned desks looked so cool (the kind where you open the top and store stuff inside); I've only seen them on TV or in movies and museums. In elementary school (late 80's - mid-90's for me), we had the flat desks with a separate opened compartment underneath the desktop; we could store books, notepads, and other supplies in the storage space. Man... that seems like a lifetime ago!

Remember the hole at the top of the desks for a previous generations' ink bottle?

That is different. I can't believe she didn't need anything else. I always enjoyed going out and getting all the supplies and clothes for back to school. It was a madhouse most of the time but everything had a smell. The new crayons, pencils, erasers, paper and more. Thank you for watching and sharing your new memories of how it has changed.

@@RhettyforHistory yes!! I looooved getting new back-to-school supplies! I’m still a big fan of “old school” spiral and marble composition notebooks, Bic 4-color pens, and traditional wooden pencils. 💜

That was one of the things I looked forward to. We got our BTS list on the first day (not during the summer as my daughter did) and my mom would take myself and my sister Kathy to Joywin's stationery (Franklin Square, NY) after dinner. The little store was so packed, and we'd even see many kids we knew from class at the store!

I remember as a kid in the 60's my parents buying a ton of school supplies every year; paper, pencils, erasers, binders, duotangs, etc.

I loved August, because that was when the stores started selling school supplies. It was wonderful to see all the new designs of the binders and folders that we could use for school. And the pencil case sets were awesome!

You're welcome. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. I don't know if it is the same thing you had or not and I'm not sure who made it. But I remember the reading system starting young with the letters even and there was a whole story that was told about each letter. The teacher would even dress up as each letter. As it progressed to later grades we did have different things added that sound more like what you are describing. I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. I always thought it made learning fun.

@@RhettyforHistory Thanks. I don't remember the letter system at my school, but the reading comprehension system we had, started around grade 5 or 6. The stories were not childish either. They were intelligent and interesting. Some factual, some fiction. The question card did not allow for you to skim the story. We were expected to really read the story through. We didn't get participation trophies in the 1960's. Haha.😉👍 It certainly was fun for me. Unlike math which I had a form of dyslexia about. Lol Oh well.

I was lucky enough to have music, art, and gym as well. Remember the recorder ? (Plastic flute) is that still around lol

@@lindaball6714 We didn't play instruments in my grammar school but we did have Home Economics. We learned basic sewing machine operation, cooking, how to rewire a lamp, use tools...things like that. In HS we had all the arts, including drama class. Sadly a lot of schools today have dropped fine arts classes I've heard. That's a bit sad.

I remember that. I think it was called SRA Reading Laboratory.

never had issue. the image was faded on lunchbox by end of year i loved my plastic character ones. i remember having cabbage patch one,care bears and one year my little pony(80's style of course) soup usually went in my thermos i either packed a juice box and or would take change so i could grab a milk in cafeteria. i was very careful with my lunch boxes i was kind of attached to them. in middle and high school insulated lunch bags were way to go. i only took lunch once in while and rest of time i got hot lunch.

@@wildfangsilco6365 yep. I remember when they were actually big snd floppy. Then they got smaller. 😆

I had a Waltons one. ^^

I can understand doing that. I am still old fashioned in many ways. Thank you for watching!

I remember always trying to get a peek at those old gradebooks, because the teachers didn't tell us our grades until we got our report cards at the end of the quarter. Well, some teachers would tell us and others wouldn't.

i still use a paper grade book also before I enter them into the computer. It's actually faster than scrolling up and down when graded papers aren't in alphabetical order.

My Grandmother, ( born in 1895) taught 1 - 8 th grade in a one room school house. She rode to work on a horse, she put up in a lean-to. And had to start the fire in the BenFranklin stove. She got water out of the creek. In the winter she'd have to take a hatchet to break the ice first. She had to have all of this done before the kiddos arrived. I have seen HER report cards. Proficiency tests. She had to cover over 25 subjects, including Latin, and geometry, geography, etc. She was one smart cookie, she usually scored 98% or 97% proficiency. WOW! I have her Unabridged Oxford English Dictionary she used in the school. It's got a 4 inch thick spine!! And I do USE it!

Good for you. At the absolute least,she should know how to sign her name.

@@Metalman200xdamnit that's definitely important.

@@jenniferhcsmith-5586 Or to be able to read historic documents.

So much yes! I did the same with my now 17yo son when he was in third grade. He hated it, but every week his spelling word lists (5x each) and other assignments were in cursive. No way my son was going to go through life not being able to properly read things written so or be unable to do a decent signature.

@@babsbylow6869 I think cursive is important. It can be easier for long writing and it looks more professional. And we need our young people to be able to read any cursive from way back when.

Not for us colorblind folks! 😢

I had a Combat! lunchbox.

Yes, you really didn't want to get hit by those. The thermos alone packed a punch.

And sadly, that's eventually what led to metal lunchboxes being banned in many schools. So then kids started bringing their lunches in plastic lunch boxes. . .and eventually, those got banned too!

I beat the crap out of a kid with a wonder woman box!

We had metal lunchboxes in the 60s but I never heard of that happening. Maybe girls didn't do it as much (?)

I remember stamps. Not signing out.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Seem to recall both methods. After 6th grade, we moved up to what used to be called "junior high school." That's middle school, I'm assuming, for all of the "kiddies" out there who're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. May still go by that name in certain areas.

You're thinking of a compass. A protractor is the half circle measuring device a compass is the ice pick pencil combo.

@@davidabest7195 Yeah you're right , I totally forgot about the half circle things ( that also went un - used )

Omg I remember my kid being upset bc I didn't get the protractor on his supplies list for the first day of school. I would scream at him (light-heartedly not meanly) "Kevin you're not gonna need a protractor for at least another 3 months"!!

I remember the Scholastic Bookmobile and the Halloween parades. Not the other stuff you mentioned though

Thank uou for watching and sharing some of your memories.

We grew our plants in our empty milk cartons from lunch.

My school did not allow halloween costumes.

I remember when teachers would have a student take the chalk board erasers out side to clean them.

Yes me too! Pwoing! They had a distinctive feel and smell too. Thank you for watching!

I can relate

LOL

I still have a dodgeball welt on my leg lol

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

Did you do the countdown on the last day of school?

@@dbergerac9632 I never had to take a bus. Was always close enough to walk. So I was never around at the end of the last day to count it down!! 😉 SHHH! Don't tell anybody! I didn't know about the synchronized clocks in elementary school so I never counted down then. Lol.

Didn't you dislike the kid who would ask a question just as the bell was about to ring? Ha! 🤗

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Being a messenger was another one of those special privileges. I remember picking up the mail they had in these little cubbies for each teacher. It's really interesting to see how much the dress code has changed over the years. I bet hardly no schools have those porcelain drinking fountains you mentioned. Thank you for watching and helping us to remember more items!

I remember the year 1966. All, or almost all the girls in my high school, decided to come in wearing slacks. It was a particularly cold winter, and we did not want to wear miniskirts. So many of us broke the rule that the administration couldn't suspend us all. A couple of years later the female teachers followed suit.

@@RhettyforHistory I'm by our oo on. NJ k noko

I remember the pledge of allegiance. I also remember the hallway drinking fountains that never seemed to have sufficient pressure to generate more than a trickle.

I started 1st grade in 1966, and I remember wearing pants then, even though I'm a girl. Although girls did often wear dresses to school in those days. We always wore jeans.

Teachers are definitley as dedicated today no matter how they are dressed. Now if only we can pay them more for their dedication.

we had Parker ink pens that used a ink cartridge

In Australia those old desks were still going into the 70s with ink Wells. I think my generation was the last to use that style school desk

bruuuuh cursive class was such a pain lmaooo But I guess having that skill does come in handy every once in a while

My 4th grader learned it in school last year in 3rd. Its still taught in some places.

Can't use that to write reports on government forms in three layers.Print and in small letters.

Knowing cursive writing in a world that's increasingly trying to abandon it makes me feel like a sideshow freak. Everyone is amazed that someone my age can write beautifully.

They started to teach kids to write in cursive at our schools about 6 or 7 years ago. That didn't last long, and kids now can't read it either. They still need to teach it because historically, a lot of things were written in cursive.

I remember sniffing dittos too! And you are right, you never had to worry about a school being shot up then. Crazy times we live in.

In highschool we had a target shooting class and kids would have 22 rifles hang off their backs riding the school on their stingrays

"See Dick run. Run, Dick, run! See Jane run. Run, Jane, run!" Everyone in those readers always seemed to be running!

@@spang9782 I love your comment !! I think the ONLY one who wasn't running was Tim...he just sat there staring straight ahead. Have an awesome day !

A lot. Two words.

Thank you and I appreciate you watching Carol!

I totally agree with that. I was a school kid in the 80’s (kindergarten-year 8)and part of high school (year 9-12) and a lot of those things you showed bought back a lot of memories eg the overhead projectors, clocks-we had on the wall of our classroom, protractors for geometry. Doing subjects like home economics prepared you for when you moved out of home-it taught you how to budget, even maths taught you that. Today’s kids aren’t taught any of that, what we learnt back then was better than what they do today, you’re right when you say that kids today wouldn’t know how to read time, I wouldn’t be surprised if some o& them can’t read a wall clock cause they are so used to digital.

There is an art to cursive and history wise it is a necessary thing to know. So many records use it from some of our most important documents to census records and even family history. I do think it should be taught. I'm a printer but I can certainly read and write it. I wrote cursive as long as they made me and converted back when they didn't enforce it. Thank you for warching and sharing your memories!

@@RhettyforHistory I'm 61 years old, and when I was in school we learned cursive in the 4th grade and used it all the time for writing papers and so forth in school afterward. It had to be legible so the teacher could read it. I was very surprised to hear that it isn't even being taught anymore. Nowadays I mostly print, rather than write cursive, but I still think it is one of those things that should be taught, it's an art our children shouldn't lose.

Wow,. Here it was 1964 when we started to use pens in school ( instead of pencils). Our desks also had inkwells but we never used then. But it was about 3 years till we started using bapllpoints. We started with cartridge pens.

You realize that cursive is now a secret code for us oldsters to use against youngsters. I use antique fountain pens with flexible nibs, to write Victorian-style calligraphy that's REALLY hard for youngsters to read.

We had inkwells and used them. Every morning, that week's ink monitor had to fill the inkwells. We also had those awful dip-pens; basically a stick with a nib fastened to the end. The desks were a reminder of what some kids used the pens for, with numerous carvings from years gone by.

Ditto. My God, so many things have changed.

@@wildfangsilco6365 graduated in '08

I spotted a millennial! How cool.

@@CookieStarAriel Yup, I'm a wild millennial in her natural habitat. XD

@@lunamoth7044 meanwhile I'm a boring and clueless gen z ☹️

How about Christmas plays? I was set to be "Santa" one year - then the dreaded chickenpox struck. So much for my chances at stardom...

How true we had a larger industrial arts wing wood and metal shop electronics class auto shop drafting and one of the first computer labs ! We also had a chemistry lab was a lot of electives to take .

I attended high school in the early 2000s and took wood shop twice. I had a knack for it and liked it that much. Both years I took wood shop, I made a candle stand, fruit bowl, and cutting board. Give me some tools and wood and I can make the gayest and transest computer desk, entertainment center, cutting board, jewelry box, or baseball bat you've ever seen. I also took lots of art classes and managed to produce some great pictures and ceramic goods through those classes.

Wait, no more shop classes!!! They were fun and cool. A nice break from regular class.

How about Driver's Ed? Typing?

im a high school student in canada and we have all of these classes still

Candy bucket? That would be fantastic.

Mucilage! I had forgotten what that brown glue was called. It came in a figure-eight bottle and had a red rubber tip that you pressed down on to apply the glue. I remember how it smelled.

@@tayler7441 I always wanted my mom to buy that curious looking glue, in the neat bottle! She never did, but I always hoped!😂

@@tayler7441 Totally forgot about mucilage.

OMFG those Costco sized buckets of paste!🤣 I was in Kindergarten in '72-'73 and I sat across from a boy who ate that sh!t like it was ice cream! He said it tasted minty. I would always tell him his butt would get pasted shut if he kept eating it. Our teacher finally figured out where all the paste was disappearing to and she put him on a diet. He was moved to his own table and only allowed a small amount on the end of a popsicle stick. He ate that paste too!🤦‍♀️🤪

@@tayler7441 and the glue was amber colored. It was very sticky and messy compared to glue sticks.

You guys were still in school in July?!?

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In first grade I took a toy to show and tell that my mother told me I couldn’t take. I dropped it and broke it getting off of the bus. I got a beating when I got home and my mother said “now go to school and show your tail”.

I've never heard of that. I grew up in the 80s and loved art class. (it's my job now)

In the 60s, in elementary school, we had to wear those "smocks" to paint in ...or do anything messy.....

we were just told to bring an old adult size button down shirt--imagine me, a 50lb kid wearing one of my dad's (250lbs) old shirts...

Man, my art classes were so messy. No protective equipment for the students or the room. This was around 2005 by the way...

OMG, I do remember that!

Children today are unable to read cursive because they don't teach it anymore. 😕

I do think there seems to be a big gap but I'm not sure on the exact years of when it happens. A lot of the things you mentioned are necessary for life. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts too.

I forced myself to memorize multiplication charts. At first I hated it, but I am so glad I did that. Oh my god

Out in the field at a work site, a youngster's thingamajig died on him. He was totally lost so back to the trailer which had all the old engineering "tools" we oldtimers knew how to use. No batteries, solar, car charger, whatever it took worked. He bought that night. He also bought a new thingamajig. The new tools are great but you need the brain for backup. Use it or lose it.

@@richardw3470 one time I saw 2 concrete slabs get poured, on which there were going to be storage units placed. They used gps to lay everything out. They could almost be forgiven for the elevation being wrong, since they were just relying on the gps model they were given, but when I came in the do the parking lot around the slabs, I noticed immediately that the slabs were not parallel, they were 4 feet closer together on one end than on the other, and years later, I'm still wondering how they went from start to finish and never spotted that or measured just to be sure or anything 😂

@@samson9428 Poor site prep (which would have shown up before the units were placed or the surround done, hopefully), poor surveying or unfortunate boundaries. Some fellow in a nearby town put storage units (oddly enough) on a piece of private land squared with the street but with an old (now gone) RR bed crossing the street on an angle in front of them . They put 15 units in the back row and 13 in the front. (They could have done it like what you had, providing more driving space.) But, the reason was obvious to us old timers who remembered the RR. You should have asked why - just being curious, of course.

We still decorate for the holidays. We’ll have door decoration contests. They don’t do a Christmas story specific pageant, but the chorus still has a Christmas concert each year.

I"am 55. And can remember a Christmas tree in our autorium season cafeteria. Also the same place we did Christmas plays. Also we had Halloween carnivals. I feel I have lived in a different time and not that long ago. When I start school I. 1970. I was 4 yrs old because my birthday is in October and school started I. September. I liked kindergarten because only went 4 hrs. Then found out after that had to go toI 1:30 then I got a surprise at 4 th grade I had to stay until 2:30. When I went to elementary it went from kindergarten to sixth grade and then 7th and 8th went to junior high. Then later they changed where at 6th grade you went to junior high building but they changed name to middle school. I was not a big fan of school. Although I do remember fondly two teachers and one teacher assistant that were really nice..

Kids won't even say Christmas break, they say winter break. They aren't allowed to have a unifying culture or identity.

Me and my younger brother both attended a Catholic highschool. The school's still celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter holidays by the time my younger brother graduated in 2011. The teachers are allowed to decorate their classroom doors, and inside their classroom as long as it didn't impede other teachers using it during other periods (i.e. no decorating the whiteboards, etc.) I think they've since added celebrating other cultural holidays too like Divali and Hanukkah.

@@taylorc2542 Sad.... But on hears a mix of the terms locally. Expect this won;t last much longer til it's all "winter break."

yep.. our school had 4 grades in one classroom! One teacher fits all. That place is now a township maintenance building. yep. Columbia, NJ its on Route 94 (well it used to be). If you have google earth take a look! this entire area has been extensively reworked when I80 was built through there... and when we lived there in the mid 50's a STEAM locomotive sometimes ran behind our school there. unreal the memories that comes back!

Followed by the innocent “who me? I would never do that.” LMAO. 😉

You're welcome and thank you for watching. I'm happy to hear this brought back some memories and I appreciate you sharing some of those with us. It's great that your old school has kept some of these features.

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.

I recall smelling it too.

I remember the pink stuff they sprinkled on the floor if someone puked had a distinctive deodorizing smell. I have cut stencils and operated a mimeograph. I don’t remember any smell to the black ink, but the blue ditto was lovely.

You're welcome and thank you for watching! I think they should teach those things you mentioned. So many different records are in cursive. And what do they do when nobody can tell time on analog clocks? Change Big Ben to digital?

You can teach her cursive and reading the clock.