School 60 years ago

[Zogman]

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[Stan's Dad]

you walked up hill both ways with no shoes, in two foot of snow, and at recess had to kill your own food for lunch or else go hungry.

 

[LBrandt]

One room school house and the rest rooms were not attached.

 

[lunkerslayer]

You guys were lucky both my grandpa's didn't finish school my dads dad couldn't read and only sign his name. Dad drop out of school becuase mom dropped out becuase she was pregnant with me. Moms dad went to school until sixth grade. Rural farming was hard shit back in the day this was the 40 and the 50s

 

[BDub]

60 years ago when you caused trouble at school the teachers punished you. When you got home it was even worse.

 

[3Roosters]

Even Chuck Norris had it tough back then. So I heard.:;:thumbsup

 

[zoops]

60 years ago when you caused trouble at school the teachers punished you. When you got home it was even worse.

Probably the biggest change overall.

 

[MuskyManiac]

60 years ago when you caused trouble at school the teachers punished you. When you got home it was even worse.

Probably the biggest change overall.

Yes, I remember in grade school having to bend over and grab my ankles while the principal gave me some wacks on the rear with a book.

If you did this today you could probably be thrown in jail. The wussification of America continues.

 

[LBrandt]

Teacher carried a 12 in ruler with a metal edge and did not use it sparingly when you f--ked up. :;:deadhorse

 

[Obi-Wan]

1/2" round wooden dowel and back then I thought he had bad aim because he was always a little high or low either hitting your lower back or upper legs, now I know it was intentional. This would have been in the late 70's early 80's

 

[lunkerslayer]

Even Chuck Norris had it tough back then. So I heard.:;:thumbsup

touche

 

[db-2]

ah you guys. Would of been in the sixth grade 60 years ago. Eight grade graduation was a big thing back then and that was it for some. Yes the sticks did hurt and yes it was worse when you got home. There was a ton of work to do by hand and even if not by hand it was done by hand. But for the daughter, done with school then leave home and find your keep somewhere else.

But in all serious my mother told me this story.
She started school I would guess in about 1918. Could not speak English only what she had learn at home being Finn.
At first day of school teacher put a dunce hat on her and made her sit in the corner due to her inability to speak English. She said all the kids laugh at her.
Went home to tell her parents and expected them to raise hell.
Her dad, my grandfather, told her we are in America now and you will learn English. So she learn English and it was the start of her learning proper. Today it just might be a different story on how that was handled.


Grandparents came from the old country so I would guess little education. One grandmother started giving birth of many at age 15. But my generation has heard about the homestead days from the parents, aunts and even the grandparents talking to today with all that is. Been a lot of changes in that short time. And I did see running water coming with REA and the rest but nothing like what my grandparents went through. Had to be little in the old country for those to come to a barren land with nothing in their pocket. db

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As the stories are told, yesterday a 32 year old lady told me about her grandparents finally getting running water in 1975 and their first washer and dryer in 1995. This is in ND. Then a few years ago they went to help the grandparents clean up their 7 bedroom home. Before they were done they found over $100,000 in various places in the home including the mattress. She said it made a big stack on the kitchen table.
My dad a farmer would always say every spring "we need to at least get the seed back for next year" a big thing in the beginning that a bank would lend a few hundred for seed and sometimes they would not and then you were screw.

Need rain and if we do not see some in the next month and the way the fields lay we will see some big dirt storms as some already have. db

 

[Zogman]

[COLOR= ] LOST WORDS OF OUR YOUTH

Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word murgatroyd?
Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!

The other day a not so elderly (65) (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy
and he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is a Jalopy?
OMG (new) phrase! He never heard of the word jalopy!!
She knew she was old but not that old.

Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.

About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy,"
"You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry."

Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie.
We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right.

Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat!
Holy moley!
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley,
and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.
Not for all the tea in China!

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell,
but when's the last time anything was swell?

Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.;
of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap,
and before we can say, well I'll be a monkey's uncle! or,
This is a fine kettle of fish! we discover that the words we grew up with,
the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely
a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.

Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind
We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those phrases gone?

Long gone: Pshaw,
The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel.

Don't forget to pull the chain.
Knee high to a grasshopper.

Well, Fiddlesticks!
Going like sixty.
I'll see you in the funny papers.
Don't take any wooden nickels.

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills.
This can be disturbing stuff !

We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.

See ya later, alligator!

THE REALLY SAD ASPECT OF ALL THIS IS THAT THEY'VE ALL BEEN REPLACED WITH THE UNFIT WORDS ............THE 'F' BOMB CURSE. THAT ALOT ON HERE LOVE TO USE.
HOW SAD IS THAT. IT IS EASIER TO DESCEND THAN ASCEND...






















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[dean nelson]

60 years ago when you caused trouble at school the teachers punished you. When you got home it was even worse.

Yeah now days you throw a water balloon and they don't give detention they call the cops!;:;banghead

 

[AR-15]

Still would like to find the old bitch I had for a 5th grade teacher and beat the crap out of her and take her husband and use his head as a hammer

 

[deleted member]

lol. tell us how you really feel.

 

[JMF]

Still would like to find the old bitch I had for a 5th grade teacher and beat the crap out of her and take her husband and use his head as a hammer

 

[Norske]

My parents had an elderly neighbor who as his health failed told my father that he had lived and seen enough. As a child horses and steam did all the work. Then there was the Model T, and tractors, cars, trucks, and even airplanes followed. But he had just seen a man walking on the moon, and that was enough for one lifetime.

 

[Retired Educator]

How has it changed? Read recently about a mother (I know it's dangerous to question how a mother should raise her children) went to the school board because the bus driver took his daily riders to the Dairy Queen on the last day of school. Heaven forbid the driver, who is responsible for these children on every other day of the year, went on a "school trip" without a chaperone or parent permission slip.

I know parents are concerned about their children and should be but WTH, seriously, this deserves school board action? I'm thinking if it had been my child I would have been thanking the driver for his/her generosity and kindness.

I really enjoyed may years of education but it's parent's like this that make retirement so appealing. When I was in HS I had teachers who I hunted with, and we both held guns and actually would shoot them at the same time. How would that go over today?

 

[LBrandt]

In high school the back window gun racks in our pickups were full and you never locked the doors. Enough ammo to start a small war under the seat or rolling around on the floor. Cannot remember when I have seen one of those lately. Are they even legal any more?