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Lincoln School, Illinois Third Grade
Photo of Richard Mateyko Richard Mateyko
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02/19/2015
Lincoln School, Illinois Third Grade
A photo of the Lincoln School, Illinois - Third grade with Mrs. Kossi 1951-1952
Date & Place: in Calumet City, Cook County, Illinois United States
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Photo of AncientFaces AncientFaces
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02/26/2015
Remember wooden desks, chalkboards & cursive writing charts?
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Photo of Melissa Manning-Snell Melissa Manning-Snell
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02/26/2015
I think kids learned more back then than now
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Photo of Leah McDonald Leah McDonald
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02/26/2015
I suppose they did, these days it's all iPads laptops and all the tech
Photo of Patricia Holm Patricia Holm
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02/26/2015
we learned by rote
Photo of Patricia Seaton Patricia Seaton
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02/26/2015
No we didn't. LOL
Photo of Grace King Grace King
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02/26/2015
U learned more back then.
Photo of Tommye Treadwell Tommye Treadwell
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02/26/2015
I think school was better back then.
Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/26/2015
more or less the same curriculum
Photo of Greg Hamblin Greg Hamblin
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03/01/2020
Melissa Manning-Snell Oh my, yes. Look at the contents of the McGuffey Readers and other contemporary textbooks.
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02/26/2015
We had desk like that at Asbury.
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Photo of Beverley Fisher Beverley Fisher
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02/26/2015
Only too well !!
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Photo of Harold Lenkung Harold Lenkung
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02/26/2015
Palmer Calligraphy
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Photo of Adele Roblin Adele Roblin
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02/26/2015
I loved it! And now, I cherish the lovely handwriting of my mom and mother in law....beautiful cursive handwritten letters from a by-gone era.
Photo of Mary Gilbert Mary Gilbert
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02/26/2015
37 students!!! Teachers now would die with that many.
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Photo of Pl Blackman Pl Blackman
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02/26/2015
Overly busy with paperwork, meetings, parents, politics!
Photo of Daniel Mcdade Daniel Mcdade
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02/26/2015
37 students but they learned the basics and they learned it well. A far cry fromwhat is happening today in our schools.
Photo of Shirley Beresford Shirley Beresford
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02/26/2015
we listened, and we didn't talk, and we did our work. If that was the case today, teachers could handle 37 now
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02/26/2015
Students were better behaved then. Could not have that many of today's students.
Photo of Cindi Lanham Scott Cindi Lanham Scott
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02/26/2015
In many southern WV school, students are in classes with more than 38 students per class...
Photo of Mary Gilbert Mary Gilbert
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02/26/2015
Oh Cindi, ouch, way too many students.
Photo of Lora Silsbee Lora Silsbee
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02/26/2015
My second and third grade classes were about that size. I don't recall any problems. (By then we boomers had gotten used to being part of a large group!)
Photo of Elizabeth Sam Reed Elizabeth Sam Reed
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02/26/2015
Students are not the same!
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02/26/2015
I had several class of 35 this year! The more the merrier!
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02/26/2015
Elisa Zahn you brave girl!!!
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02/26/2015
I remember those days!
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02/26/2015
I remember some mean teachers!
Photo of Jessie Whitten Jessie Whitten
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02/26/2015
they were also aloud to paddle kids too
Photo of Ruth Crook Ruth Crook
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02/26/2015
There were 32 kids in my second grade class. And we were using cursive writing.
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02/26/2015
Jessie - they weren't allowed to paddle kids where I lived.
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02/26/2015
Mary Gilbert, I've always wondered about that. I thought we had large classes when I was kid, but no one else seemed to remember that. I guess the kids today are just too rude and roudy for teachers to handle large classes any more. I thought I wanted to teach, but I'm sort of glad I didn't go down that path, now. Can't imagine having that number of kids now, mouthing off, and me not knowing if I disciplined them whether they would be likely to pull a gun or knife on me.
Photo of Judy Dobric Judy Dobric
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02/26/2015
The parents supported teachers. Many teachers still have 37 today.
Photo of Carine Munro Carine Munro
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02/27/2015
come to australia there 40 plus kids in classes now..some even 50
Photo of Linda Kartes Linda Kartes
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02/27/2015
Back then, kids had more respect for everything. Especially respect for the consequences of not having respect and misbehaving. Teachers weren't meaner, they were just viewed as a person who had authority and you damn well better toe the mark. Now??? kids have no respect for authority or anything else for that matter. Listen to the way they talk and respond to their parents.
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02/28/2015
My daughter is a teacher and has 32 kids- her previous school she had 35
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02/28/2015
I had 32 students in a portable not that long ago
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02/28/2015
This was an average size for any class I was in back in the 50s and 60s! Usually between 35 to 40 students per class.
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03/01/2020
Ruth Crook 1960s they swatted with a perforated paddle. Made you hold your hands out while the hit you with a yardstick on the knuckles in public. When they got you alone then you were in trouble.
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03/02/2020
Mary Gilbert No kidding
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03/04/2020
Mary Gilbert Not if everyone paid attention and understood if they disrupted class they'd meet the "board of education" as wielded by a teacher or principal.
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02/26/2015
Wooden desks, chalkboard, cursive writing, "old" math, Gym class. If it wasn't for learning cursive, my genealogy research might come to a complete halt!!
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02/26/2015
Children in the US will no longer be taught cursive thanks to the new Common Core plan. How will future generations ever research historic documents...or my grand children read my genealogy research? I was aghast to hear the details of Common Core!
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02/26/2015
I'm with you Adele Roblin!
Photo of Carl McNiel Carl McNiel
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02/26/2015
That could be my room minus the clock
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Photo of Christina Ramos Herrera Christina Ramos Herrera
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02/26/2015
I currently have one in our shop.
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Photo of Sandi Hilton Sandi Hilton
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02/26/2015
Yes. Remember them very well.
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02/26/2015
I went to Lincoln School!!!! In Lincoln Park neighborhood
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02/26/2015
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02/26/2015
This is how it was when I went to school......only I had Nuns....
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02/26/2015
i remember the respect we gave our teachers and elders. i could never imagine talking back to any of them.
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02/26/2015
U are so right
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02/26/2015
I wish I could get a hold of one of these desk
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Photo of Carol J. Burgess Carol J. Burgess
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02/26/2015
Yes, unfortunately I remember all the OLD things.
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02/26/2015
I remember those desks!
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Photo of Cleva Strother-brown Cleva Strother-brown
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02/26/2015
I remember the desks and the chalkboards.For me it was the 70's
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Photo of Ginger Constantine Navarrete Ginger Constantine Navarrete
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02/26/2015
Does not seem like that long ago - Looks like my class room at that time.
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02/26/2015
I have an old metal school desk that belong to my dad.
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02/26/2015
Linda foto.
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Photo of Ann Marie McGee Stanley Ann Marie McGee Stanley
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02/26/2015
The boys in my class got so excited if they were "chosen" to clap the chalkboard erasers outside....
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02/26/2015
I have a chair exactly like the one in this photo pd 10 dollars for it
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Photo of Shirley Dutcher Shirley Dutcher
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02/26/2015
Back in the day when kids were taught to love America !!!
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/26/2015
Surprisingly, we still are taught these same things! On September 11th, December 7th and many other remembrance days, we stand with our hands over our hearts for 5 minutes of silence. Every Tuesday-Friday we recite the Pledge of Allegiance. And every Monday we are welcomed into school with the Star-Spangled Banner. It really makes me sad knowing that other people make assumptions about the education system in entirety having been uneducated in the 21st century school system.
Photo of Anita Ochiltree Kinard Anita Ochiltree Kinard
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02/26/2015
Although some of us were not "educated in the 21st century school system" we do have children and grandchildren who are.
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02/27/2015
You are correct The Pledge of Allegiance and singing of our National Anthem Daily and Assembly Day Blue pants white shirt red tie those were Great Days
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02/26/2015
I had no idea they no longer had wooden desks, chalkboards & cursive writing charts.
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Photo of Anneke Dubash Anneke Dubash
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02/27/2015
Now, most schools don't even provide school materials, paper, notebooks, kleenex, pencils, etc., even in grade school. Parents are given a list at the beginning of the year which includes 4 tennis balls. The balls are sliced open and put on the feet of the desks (8 if you have separate chairs) to prevent scratching the floors because they have cut down on custodial workers.
Photo of Ann Petrone Smith Ann Petrone Smith
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02/26/2015
This school house was used until the 1960's. My husband and brothers in law went to it. It's still standing and in good shape. They moved to the big school in the '60s and my husband taught there after high school and college graduation. He retired in 2009. I think 3 or 4 generations of his family went to the one room school.
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Photo of Liz Kelly Liz Kelly
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02/26/2015
Lots and lots of kids!! Lol
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Photo of Juliett Mohr Miller Juliett Mohr Miller
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02/26/2015
It looks like a picture I have when I was in first or second grade in Clifton NU
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Photo of Eloise Hintersteiner Eloise Hintersteiner
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02/26/2015
We had over 30 students in my 3rd grade class in the Bronx in the 1950s. All part of the post-War Baby Boom. Our old desks had inkwells left over from the prior era of fountain pens. We were modern - we had ball point pens!
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Photo of Jamie Conde Jamie Conde
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02/26/2015
Reminds me of the teacher fm a Christmas story " I want you to write - A THEME!"
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Photo of Terry Ginis Terry Ginis
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02/26/2015
Yes-and standing with your hand on your heart and saying the pledge of allegiance.
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Photo of Dana Christian Dana Christian
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02/26/2015
Talk about an overcrowded classroom!
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02/26/2015
The class of Mlle. Desormeaux at École St. Gérard in Ottawa, ca. 1946. Once located on Loretta Street.

(Université d'Ottawa, CRCCF, Fonds Blandine-Charbonneau (P86), Ph58-70.)

Two to a desk!!

And, the school I went to in 1964-65 had exactly the same type of desk.
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02/27/2015
It looks very similar to a Classroom in Germany in the 50th !!!
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02/27/2015
Indian Residential Schools.where kids were beaten by the black strap ,and forced to speak English or die.
Photo of Anneke Dubash Anneke Dubash
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02/27/2015
Strapped with worse, too. One school used the strap from their generator. Others used sticks.
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02/26/2015
I think we had 44 in this class
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Photo of Linda Mcfeeters-jurgenson Linda Mcfeeters-jurgenson
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02/26/2015
Seems like yesterday.
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Photo of Joanna Niedzialkowska Joanna Niedzialkowska
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02/26/2015
Pamiętam takie klasy. W mojej było 32 dziewczynki. Miałyśmy cudowne nauczycielki.
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02/26/2015
What did you say Joanna I'm Polish but don't read nor speak it. It is Polish right good early memories
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02/26/2015
Melissa M Richardville
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02/26/2015
Yes, I do....
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02/26/2015
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Photo of Mary Gilbert Mary Gilbert
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02/26/2015
Tough contract.
Photo of Claire Toynbee Claire Toynbee
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02/26/2015
When my great-grandmother started teaching in England about 1882, she was just a teenager and I bet she had at least as resrtrictive a contract. After a few years, she quit to get married, but her nieces became teachers after her, and one of them became a headmistress , along the way marrying and having children.
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02/26/2015
Omg!!..all these rules!? Wow,they controlled everything back then.
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02/26/2015
Married women generally did not work outside the home back then.
Photo of Anneke Dubash Anneke Dubash
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02/26/2015
Actually they did. You just couldn't get or keep a teaching job or get a government job. There were employers why let you go if you got married but there were many married women working menial jobs.
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02/27/2015
Yes, working class women often had jobs like taking in laundry, running a boarding house, domestic help, plus middle class women were teachers, librarians, piano teachers, tutors, governesses & nurses. Many girls & women helped their families on farms, in stores & restaurants. Yes & many were expected to quit their jobs if they got married & only return if they became widowed.
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02/27/2015
Sounds a little like it was written by the Taliban, except no mention of religion!
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03/01/2020
In the sixties many employers would not let you work if you were visibly pregnant.
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02/26/2015
i do !
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02/26/2015
KKK School?!
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02/26/2015
Lots of checker shirts...
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Photo of Tina Hill Tina Hill
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02/26/2015
Yes. Now they don't even teach them how to write (or spell, or punctuate). My coworkers can't read cursive or tell time.
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Photo of Sherry Richmond Sherry Richmond
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02/27/2015
I'm a Boomer & I didn't really learn how to punctuate very well until I was in grad. school writing my thesis. My husband is an Engineer & still can't spell properly. I think too many of us Seniors fool ourselves into believing it was so much better in the "Good Old Days."
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02/27/2015
Who can forget "diagraming sentences? What a useless exercize!
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02/27/2015
My mother taught Geography and English. She is always fuming at the TV when she hears poor grammar. "They stopped teaching grammar and punctuation and look at the result!!"

I spent 11 years doing quality control for a legal team's reports. The worst spelling, grammar and punctuation was in the reports produced by PhDs. Appalling! You would send it back and the same errors or worse would come back to you! And in some cases, the supporting documents, often 2 or three, crammed, legal-sizes binders would be out of order, even pages within a document out of order.

One pompous guy, who was always on about his degrees, handed me something that was supposed to be out to the client in an hour. It seriously looked like he'd thrown all three binders down a set of stairs, gathered them up and stuffed them in the binders. Pages put in backwards, pages from one document in different binders, and many documents unlabelled!

People's lives depended on the quality of our work!!

Much to my glee, they assembled a "special team" of the worst offenders and got them to prepare packages. We quality controlled them and returned everything not up to standards. Anyone who didn't improve was left go. Thank you Jesus!
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02/27/2015
I'd appreciate if you'd not generalize. There are benchmarks in the curriculum of Wisconsin that make grammar and punctuation be taught. If the previous generation used good grammar during our development, it would be like a first language to us.
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02/26/2015
Looks like the classrooms at Crystal River Elementary School.
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Photo of Audrey L Wolfe Audrey L Wolfe
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02/26/2015
thats because of how our teachers dressed now alot of our teachers today dress like the children , and on another note when we were young when did you ever hear of your teacher hanging in a bar drinking it was just unheard of . not today and alot of them are female teachers it just looks wrong,.
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/28/2015
And what have you done to change it?
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02/26/2015
I went to Lincoln in the sixties, small world.
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02/26/2015
quanti ricordi
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02/26/2015
When education was REAl.
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02/26/2015
My classroom had dual desks and up to 40 pupils'. The old blackboard and easel. The teacher was the law! :)
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02/26/2015
Now they are talking about no longer teaching cursive writing. Who thinks up this sort thing? I agree children learned more then. There is more to learn now with progress, but the basics are lost in a lot of instances.
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/26/2015
within the age of technology, you have to stop and think "do we continue teaching a script that's only going to be used in our classrooms? or do we teach them to better the same manuscript that's used in the same fashion as the technology they use at home?"
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02/26/2015
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02/26/2015
I was at those desks when I was 10 years old
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02/26/2015
We used the Rinehart method for penmanship in the 40' and 50's. Since the 60's everyone's handwriting looks the same.
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02/26/2015
Went to a few different schools around Angus and Dundee. Boy some of those photos, school classrooms were filled by upto 33 kids, been to one weird open planned school, Been taught in porticabin. And I remember being taught cursive italic, however not script. Prayers at assembly, depended on your school teacher on what you were taught, 1980's schooling were a bit experimental. One day you were taught one method, then suddenly you had to relearn everything, think I spent more time hating homework.
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02/26/2015
I still have one with the old ink well and bottle inside.
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02/26/2015
That's what it look like when I started school at A B Hill in south Memphis.
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02/26/2015
all neat and clean and ready to learn.
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02/26/2015
Ahhh, the memories!
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02/26/2015
Teachers, Parents and Childern cared. Childern wanted to learn.
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02/26/2015
Oh yes Stuart Scott school
Newmarket Ontario
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02/26/2015
Oh, yes! 1st thru 6th grades!
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02/26/2015
Look how nice they sit so straight and tall! No talking back to the teachers then....
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02/27/2015
Beautiful photo brings back memories Kennedy was President we used to have to hide underneath the desks in case of a Nuclear Attack P.S.39 Longwood Ave Bronx New York The 1960s The Beatles era
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02/26/2015
Sure do. Good old reading writing and arithmatic!!
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02/26/2015
when school was still fun
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02/26/2015
Back then Kids sat still in class and knew they had better behave. Teachers were in control.
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02/26/2015
Looks like our school!
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02/26/2015
Yep, remember them all. And an American flag in every room & saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning plus the Lord's prayer.
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02/27/2015
You must have gone to parochial school. No prayers in public schools I attended, just the pledge of allegiance. Did you know the pledge was written by a socialist? "under God" was added in the early 1950s during the "Red Scare?"
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02/26/2015
it.s not my school but we lived in COOK COUNTY ILL. MY CLASS ROOM LOOKED JUST LIKE THAT
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02/26/2015
This looks very familiar! I guess it doesn't matter where you where, this time all looked the same.
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02/26/2015
Sweet I remember.
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02/26/2015
Had the same classroom picture in Queens NY!
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02/26/2015
all of then at attention
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02/26/2015
I remember being in grade school classes bigger than this, and we learned more too
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02/26/2015
And probably no one blinked that this is a BIG class 30+ students. (As were ours - back in the day )
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02/26/2015
Some of my family my be in that class.
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02/26/2015
Wow! all smile .Dressed nice, i don't see shorts,girls in jeans.
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02/26/2015
Looks just like my grade school classroom pictures. Some years the Nuns had 60 students per room. In 1952 our desks weren't that nice.
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02/26/2015
I attended a two room schoolhouse. Grades 1 thru 4 in one room & 5 - 8 in the other. If you got out of hand the teacher was allowed to paddle you. You can bet your booties I didn't get out of hand because if the teacher gave me a whippin' when you got home you got another one. We were taught to respect our peers. No middle school.
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02/26/2015
I remember those desks well. I sat in desks like these until I was in seventh grade. I was not happy with the tables that replaced them.
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02/26/2015
Looks like me at PS 16 in the Bronx.
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02/26/2015
I remember these desk and class pictures like these! Wow
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02/26/2015
Aah, yes, the good old days. When there was no air conditioning or central heating and the teachers used to beat kids with a board whenever they felt like it.
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02/26/2015
Very well
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02/26/2015
Boy does that look familiar!!! We had a two room school.1st. and 2nd in one and 3rd and4th in the other!!!
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02/26/2015
The kids today are not being taught cursive. What happens when they have to sign their name!!
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02/26/2015
And notice the size of this class and only one teacher. This was pre teacher's aide. Also, pre-teacher's unions!
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02/26/2015
Awesome old photo!! :)
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Photo of Judy Bidwell Judy Bidwell
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02/26/2015
I remember all of this! I was in third grade then and sat in those desks attached to runners.
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02/26/2015
Yep!
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02/26/2015
They learned more then, because they were taught by teachers who cared. Not with computers and calculators.
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/27/2015
The teachers still care, more opportunities with technology nowadays.
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02/26/2015
Could also have been John Spry elem. school as well
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02/26/2015
Yes u do
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02/26/2015
From someone who also started school in the 50's, I gotta tell you, this is NOT ancient!
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Photo of Amy Collins Amy Collins
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02/26/2015
From someone who started school in the 1980's, I can honestly say; yes, this *is* ancient. Sorry time takes such a vicious toll.
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02/26/2015
I think a year before I started.
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02/26/2015
OMG. Things did not change. I was in first grade in 1960. It was just like this. Hands folded.
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02/26/2015
Hey, 2nd girl on right front is me!!
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02/26/2015
Reminds me of my third grade class in Lincoln Nebraska around 1957.
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02/26/2015
I object strongly to the phrase "ancient faces" Well worn by this time of our lives, but certainly not ancient.. :)
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02/26/2015
I am sorry for your difficulty. Time takes such a vicious toll. It's ancient, though.
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Amy Collins so clever, need a new catch phrase. Retire "vicious toll". Overdone
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02/26/2015
Like it? I was there, only it was at Carr, Colorado.
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02/26/2015
If all those kids learned to read and write and didn't maime eachother the teacher deserved a greater retirement package than a congressman bu probably got a tenth or less!!!!
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02/26/2015
Brings back memories x
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Photo of Lucia Perry Lucia Perry
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02/26/2015
Sure. And ink wells!
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02/26/2015
Because now there are lawyers.
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02/26/2015
this photo was obviously far from this modern time. pupils aren't in wacky poses 😀
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02/26/2015
I. Do. Remember
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Photo of Kerry McKinnon Kerry McKinnon
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02/26/2015
I remember all of that!

Do you remember that pink, Pepto Bizmo smelling sawdust they would toss around when some poor kid got sick and puked? The sight and smell of that stuff usually caused more kids to puke in a giant chain reaction pukefest.
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02/27/2015
The stuff we had was either a bilious green or uncoloured. Either way, it was nauseating!
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02/27/2015
I do miss, however, the smell of the schools. Whether the wood floors, the chalk... My mother taught school for almost 30 years and I used to love to go to her school to pick her up after work to get a whiff of the school smell.
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02/26/2015
I think all schools looked like that in the fifty's.
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02/26/2015
This picture reminds me of my school days.
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02/26/2015
I have one of those.
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Photo of Nancey Meston Nancey Meston
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02/26/2015
Girls were not allowed to wear jeans or pants.
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02/27/2015
When I was in Grade 8, in 1969/70, we had a sit-in to allow us to wear pants at school. Try walking in skirts in -25C temperatures on a windy day! We weren't given extra time if we wore pants under our skirts or dresses, and you had to put them on or off 8 times a day (off in the am, on and off at morning recess, on and off for lunch, on and off for afternoon recess, and on again for going home), not to mention that if you were playing hard, even though we had separate yards for bots and girls, it was embarrassing if your skirt flew up. We won and all the schools in the school board allowed girls to wear pants in school. Now many are going to uniforms (mostly just a set colour of skirt or pants, blouse, and sweater or sweat shirt).
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Nancey Meston I was in 2nd grade in winter wore long pants. They called my mom. Pants not allowed. Mom hit the roof. Next day I wore long pants with dress over. Teacher put me in coat closet. Boy did my mom give them a piece of her mind when she took me to school.
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02/26/2015
My dad was born in 1947 Chicago! This could've been his classroom! :)
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02/26/2015
Believe it or not, one of my HS classrooms had this type of desks!!
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02/26/2015
We had chair oak desks otherwise this could have been a pic of my classroom in the '50s. We also had 2 grades in one room.
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02/26/2015
No I am much too young. lol
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02/26/2015
Yep
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02/26/2015
Exactly what I had all through grade school. My 4 yr. Old grandson saw one of these desks a couple weeks ago and said, "Grandma, WHAT'S THAT?!" LOL!
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02/26/2015
My mom has a wooden desk on her front porch
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Photo of Connie C Morgan Connie C Morgan
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02/26/2015
THOSE were the days!!!
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02/26/2015
Reminds me of my classroom, except our seats were different. Why is it all the kids in these pictures look so much alike?
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02/26/2015
Hm. All-white classroom. I wonder if the nonwhite classrooms had as nice desks. I wonder if desegregated classrooms would hold the same nostalgia for many commenters.
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02/28/2015
I attended public schools in New York State from 59 until 72. Every classroom in every year was integrated and we all had the same equipment and opportunities inside the school walls.
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02/26/2015
Memories.
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Photo of June Staelens Gonzalez June Staelens Gonzalez
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02/26/2015
This totally looks like my big brother s class room, man how I miss him, March 22nd will be 4th yr hes been gone
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02/26/2015
Awwee
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Photo of June Staelens Gonzalez June Staelens Gonzalez
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02/26/2015
Big brother Carl went to minoa jr high in minoa, my anyone hear of some small towns near Syracuse,my??😉
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02/26/2015
Lincoln elementary was two blocks from my home. I remember these classrooms well!
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02/26/2015
I attended Northcrest Elementary School in Wilmington, Will Co. Illinois
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02/26/2015
Peaceful time
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Photo of Linda Williby Linda Williby
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02/26/2015
Yep
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02/26/2015
I just found out a couple years ago that they don't have chalkboards anymore.
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02/26/2015
They look rigid and can barely smile.
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02/26/2015
sa fait bcp une classe de 40eleves c pa maintenent que les prof accepterai sa?
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02/26/2015
ils sont tous beaux
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02/26/2015
I remember...best of times...and there was always respect.
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Myra Edmonds Jeffris
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02/26/2015
We had desks like that at Crabapple!
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02/26/2015
Little girl in front row looks so much like Jenny to me!!
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02/26/2015
In England the desks all had inkwells because it exempted them from sales tax
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02/26/2015
i rember sitting in school that way we had same grade from 1 till6 grade
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Photo of Judith A. Hill Judith A. Hill
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02/26/2015
I sat at many desks like those. Also went to a one room school with 6 grades & a pot belly stove!
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02/26/2015
Blackboard in the Cook County classroom: "When I grow up I will be a flyer . . ."; "Today we fly . . ."; something about Electricity . . .; something about Diesel Electric . . .

Blackboard not written in cursive. I'm just observing.

And remembering: diving under the desks and staying away from the windows in case of what the teacher euphemistically called an "air raid" . . .
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02/26/2015
Calumet City, south suburb of Chicago.
Class size was limited to 40, for one teacher. I started at Henry R. Clissold on Chicago's South Side, 4 years later, and this is very close to what I remember. It was a happy time!
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02/26/2015
good days
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02/26/2015
Ancient, huh? I was in the third grade in 1952...
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02/26/2015
I loved the 50tys!
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02/26/2015
Our classrooms looked like this but we had up to 55 kids in each classroom. Those nuns kept us in line though....:-)
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02/26/2015
I wish they would bring back those desks. My youngest son is left-handed and schools do not provide left-handed desks. I had to personally discuss this with the principal after a nasty letter from one of his teachers. I asked him if the school system had ANY left-handed tables. He said no. I said well that could be a main reason that all lefties weren't as fast or finishing their papers. Parents,even myself, would not have thought about that being a problem. So if your child is a leftie, ask the school if they have any desks for lefties.
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02/26/2015
So peaceful!
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Photo of Paul Tait Paul Tait
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02/26/2015
And all the kids are white! Today there is one white kid surrounded by illegals!
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/27/2015
Your comment is irrelevant and wrong. Shame on you for making this derogatory statement. America is a melting pot. Unless you're Native American, your entire family was illegal at one point. It was the Europeans that brought the Africans here. Be glad we are surrounded by so much culture. I know for a fact that my generation's going to do great things because of these cultural influences, instead of being a bitter old man that hates what America's become. You can't bring back the past and YOU can't change the future. The "illegals" will.
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02/27/2015
Sorry pal but all my relatives came over in the early 1900's and went through proper immigration and became US citizens. Once more they made darn sure my parents LEARNED ENGLISH. The USA was well established by the 1910's and so nada illegal about my ancestry. And I wasn't being derogatory I was making a simple social observation. Frankly, If you think it is fine that illegal people here are out numbering naturalized or natural born Americans you ought to be shot for treason. I am all for immigration, just LEGAL immigration. Big f**king difference, youngin'.
Photo of Julee Prose Julee Prose
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02/26/2015
yep. I remember...went to one in KG & 6th grade.
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02/26/2015
That was the year I came to u s a and started at cvjh lol
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02/26/2015
I dont miss it
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Photo of Leslie Derat Leslie Derat
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02/27/2015
My kids French school looks like that. They still use the cursive writing charts with the little ones. And I love it, so old school but they are learning a ton!
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02/27/2015
I was there K-1st semester of 5th grade, then we moved and on to Cleveland School.
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02/27/2015
Looks very similar to a School in Germany at thi time exept the seats. We had double Seats - Table and Bench for two two Kids.
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02/27/2015
I use to have a desk like this.
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Photo of Lenka Shaw Lenka Shaw
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02/27/2015
I remmeber all ,these days what I see in schools I am shocked,those white boards or projectors driving me crazy !!the kids at the back of the class cant see a thing !!and sitting like 4 or 6 by one table in primary schools and cant even turn their headsaround to look at the teacher ...!! poor kids no wonder they having back neck issues later .in my school back in days we were faced to the teacher and the chalk black or even dark green boeards were the best time of my life !! BRING IT BACK !!!!!!!!! The pics remind me of my childhood . I wish my kids can go tothis school and learn ''something'' these days kids cant hardly spell or do time tables !!We were punished hard way not just detention like these days.I SAY BRING BACK THE VICTORIAN TIMES!!! LETS SEE HOW MANY NAUGHTY KIDS YOU SEE IN SCHOOL !!
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/27/2015
You can't spell or use punctuation either. When you need to figure out the grand total of your cart at the grocery store, I'd like to see you pull out a times table.
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02/28/2015
I have no idea what you try to say Ricky
Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/28/2015
Meaning that calculators are made for a reason. Don't tell me for one second that you don't use calculators. Times tables are irrelevant.
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02/28/2015
We did not had calculators in our school. We used our brains to work out and pan and paper to write it down!! and I definitely don't carry calculater to the shop do you??? Not even my kids !!!
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02/27/2015
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02/27/2015
yep
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Photo of Kim A Hull Kim A Hull
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02/27/2015
1963 wooden desk cursive writing with a ink pen and the teacher throwing dusters at the kids
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Photo of Len Butch Beardsley Len Butch Beardsley
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02/27/2015
looks like my old classroom. and the air clock
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Photo of John Turner John Turner
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02/27/2015
we had these in Robert Poole Jr. High in the 50s
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02/27/2015
If you did wrong you got it at school then worse when you got home. We had out door bathroom as well. All 8 grades had recess together made you grow up a little quicker.
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02/27/2015
Yes, sure do!
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02/27/2015
When I was in Catholic elementary schools there were two grades taught together in one classroom
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Photo of Karen Blaine Young Karen Blaine Young
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02/27/2015
I went to a one room school until fifth grade.
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02/27/2015
P.S.39 Longwood Ave Bronx New York 1960s
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Photo of Joan Emswiler Joan Emswiler
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02/27/2015
Takes me back to 1944
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Photo of Shirley Anderson Shirley Anderson
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02/27/2015
We need to go back to this & teach kids to read & write &SPELL !!
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/28/2015
We can spell.
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02/27/2015
I do.
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Photo of Patty Margolis Littman Patty Margolis Littman
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02/27/2015
Ah, yes, I remember it well
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Photo of Richard Reid Richard Reid
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02/27/2015
I thought you might be referring to segregation with that photo.
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Photo of Alicia Wanish Alicia Wanish
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02/27/2015
Our Catholic school still had this in the early 60's
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02/27/2015
remember them well! pastor stood by each desk listening to memorized recitations of bible verses!
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02/27/2015
I have 3 or 4 of these desks for sale $75 a piece 9207070433
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Photo of Katie Nestor Katie Nestor
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02/27/2015
Yes, they don't even teach cursive writing anymore
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Photo of Ricky Pratt Ricky Pratt
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02/27/2015
Good riddance.
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02/27/2015
Most classes here have that many or more in their classes!
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Photo of Diane Richardson Diane Richardson
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02/27/2015
Back in those days I agree that kids learned more then.
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02/28/2015
Conjecture.
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02/27/2015
A flood of memories came back to me when I saw this pic

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Photo of Karen Keane Karen Keane
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02/27/2015
Remember when girls wore dresses?
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Photo of Tim McDearmon Tim McDearmon
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02/27/2015
Notice the flowing cursive handwriting in the background. Certain every child could write like that. What a homogenous society looks like.
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Photo of Sherry Richmond Sherry Richmond
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02/27/2015
I had trouble with my handwriting as well as typing--some sort of motor skills problem, but I blossomed when computers came out. Keyboards much easier to use than typewriters. Life wasn't always so peachy in the "Old Days." Some things are better now.
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02/27/2015
Derby school K-8 1950-55. On Heeney Rd. Outhouses and lunch pails or sack lunches. Great teachers- Mr.Owen, Mrs.Waterstradt who had paddles to use if we really messed up!Science lab was the woods and fields and streams in the hood. Tadpoles and minnows, butterflies and other insects, leaf collections! Precious memories!!
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02/27/2015
I think all classrooms looked alike back when..
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Photo of Betty Newsom-Anderson Betty Newsom-Anderson
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02/27/2015
Looks very familiar
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Photo of Anneke Dubash Anneke Dubash
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02/27/2015
Carolyn Laing pointing to blackboard at Ottawa Public School, Ottawa, March 1955
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02/27/2015
A geography class, Laurentian High School. Ottawa, Ont. [Un cours de géographie, école secondaire Laurentian. Ottawa, Ont.], 1959

This was the school where my Mom taught Geography (possibly in the same room!) from 1968-197[something].
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02/27/2015
Oh yes look at this picture and can see me sitting right there lol
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02/27/2015
The large school room, Miss A.M. Harmon's Home and Day School, N.E. corner of Elgin and MacLaren Streets, Ottawa, Ontario. January, 1894.

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Photo of John Larson John Larson
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02/27/2015
Looks like my McPherson school in Chicago!!
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Photo of Peggy Zadow Peggy Zadow
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02/27/2015
See how the girls all wore dresses!
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02/27/2015
A high angle view looking down on students in the Broadview Public School. Ottawa, Ontario. 1962
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02/27/2015
Model School, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ont. c. 1890

The building later became the Teacher's College and is now part of City Hall.
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02/27/2015
Model School, Ottawa, Ont. June, 1899. PA-028094
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02/27/2015
Those were the days my friends.
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Photo of Jane Uptegrove Jane Uptegrove
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02/27/2015
looks like Gravi..only we did not have the clock.
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02/27/2015
A classroom of a different sort...

Gov't House [The Governor General's Residence, in Ottawa] - Interior School Room Lady Gordon, Majorie at right, July 1898

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02/27/2015
Another view
Photo of Jo Ferrell Jo Ferrell
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02/27/2015
Ancient indeed!
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02/27/2015
oh man, my sister is going to be really angry when she learns that you guys think she ANCIENT already
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Photo of Terri Hamilton Terri Hamilton
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02/27/2015
Oh yes I can see us
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Photo of Connie Hoar Connie Hoar
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02/27/2015
I think I'm in this picture somewhere!
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Photo of Darla Hines Darla Hines
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02/27/2015
Those were the good ole days when teachers actually did their jobs and we actually learned. Schools cared back then
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02/27/2015
Teachers still teach and the children still learn.
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Darla Hines 👍👍
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02/27/2015
I went to school in Cook Co. in the 1950s, however we had newer desks than these in the photo, which appear to be early 20th C. Ours had separated desks with formica top & metal legs with a shelf for books & school supplies under the top. We had metal chairs with wooden back & seat, asbestos in the ceiling to retard fires, lead paint on the walls & florescent lighting that hummed. In the 60s there was an educational fad for classrooms with only slits for windows so students couldn't stare outside & be distracted & moveable walls for flexible, multi-function learning.
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02/27/2015
Yes, I remember. This looks just like my 3rd grade class at James Bickley a Elementary in Clovis, NM
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Photo of Karen Antenucci Korpi Karen Antenucci Korpi
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02/27/2015
Ok where is Sister Theresa with the hair brush
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02/27/2015
Not me. Not old enough. Ok gk ahesd snd laugh
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Photo of Peggy Knight Peggy Knight
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02/27/2015
Ok go ahead and laugh . Gotta proof read
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02/27/2015
That is so cool, use to have a desk just like those...
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Photo of Sharen L. Gendebien Sharen L. Gendebien
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02/27/2015
I also remember the inkwells and the clear alphabet rulers that were used to judge the quality of ones cursive writing.
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02/27/2015
Were there any other kinds lol
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02/27/2015
Rows of single seat desks. Now kids sit in at least duo desks, often in groups. They poke each other, swipe each other's pencils and erasers, etc. they effectively have their backs turned to the teacher
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02/27/2015
Oh my God, 1952 I was in n High School!
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02/27/2015
Back then, there wasn't anyone who cared if blacks had a problem with this "lack of diversity."
It wouldn't be until the 60's that the Marxists would begin to use the courts (and the cultivation of 'white guilt') to put an end to such a glorious era.
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02/27/2015
What do you mean "Marxists?" Are you speaking of "Liberals?" (Now don't you go around rewriting history! I don't even think you know what the word "Marxism" means.) And Blacks weren't complaining about "diversity" they wanted to end segregation. (You make it all sound so trivial.) Blacks were forced to go to run down "separate but equal" schools that were anything but equal. What "glorious era?" Enough with your Fox News revisionist history of the 1950 & 60s. Best to keep your divisive political views out of this discussion of a school room.
Photo of Anneke Dubash Anneke Dubash
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02/27/2015
Just block him. He didn't live through the time so his taling out his backside.
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02/27/2015
How does a person block someone? (I bet John Smith isn't his real name.)
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02/27/2015
Sorry, Sherry Richmond but you cannot "block" opinions that interfere with the beliefs you've been conditioned to hold. I suggest you overlook them. I won't waste valuable life trying to undo a lifetime of social indoctrination. You don't matter to me.

If real world experiences haven't taught you by now, then please go face-to-face with a racially-conscious black woman on the street and lecture HER. She'll set you straight!

(I think we all know that you won't and we all know the reason why.)
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02/27/2015
Those were the days in 1941 too
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02/27/2015
Could have been my classroom....not...but still identical
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02/27/2015
I have a photo like this of my 1st yr of school ... 1963.
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02/27/2015
When I was in grade school 1st thru 3rd was in one room and 4th thru 8th in the other. Taught by Ursuline nuns who lived over the school house. Best days of all my school days.
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02/27/2015
Back in the day our class room look like this.
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Photo of Vivian Wilson Vivian Wilson
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02/27/2015
I miss school like this, there was a lot less bullying.
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02/27/2015
And girls wore dresses to school.
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02/27/2015
Well......Where is Flick..??? Look out the window....hahaha
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02/27/2015
That could have been my grade school as a kid I started school in 54 . The same classroom as my Daddy in 1925 !
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Photo of Joyce Vaughn Joyce Vaughn
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02/27/2015
yes I remember lol
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Photo of Barbara Fitzgerald Barbara Fitzgerald
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02/27/2015
Ancient faces, hell, I thought it was me. We also had 40 kids in class and all learned to read. Love it.
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Photo of Amber McCoy Amber McCoy
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02/27/2015
things were so much better then
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02/27/2015
We actually learned how to read, write and to math without any machines of any kind, AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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02/27/2015
Reminds me of my school day in Grapeland, Texas.
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02/27/2015
This is so amazing.... Love reading ALL the posts... Thanks for all the..memories....
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02/27/2015
Looks very simular to my elementary school . Wish they would go back to this.
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02/27/2015
Oh the good old days.
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02/27/2015
I remember those desks. We would have to wash them at end of year.
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02/27/2015
The kind of seats I had in the 1st and 2nd grades.
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02/28/2015
beautiful! but only white kids used to go to school then. where are the other children?
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02/28/2015
I can smell the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches and banana's sitting in their brown paper bags waiting for lunch.. brings back good memories.
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02/28/2015
I remember. Those. From. The. 60S
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02/28/2015
And look how well behaved
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02/28/2015
we had 8 grades in one room.
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02/28/2015
You are right Melissa,also mary.I bet they could read,write add,subtract,and didnt talk back to the teacher and run around the class room like a nut case
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02/28/2015
lol looks like my elementary school classrooms!
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02/28/2015
Boy that's going back a lot of years.
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02/28/2015
No, I can't seem to remember that!! Ha
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02/28/2015
That could have ben my class.
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02/28/2015
Yes I remember and have two of those wonderful desk in my grandkids room.
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02/28/2015
Do you realize many schools no longer teach cursive ?
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02/28/2015
Memories!
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03/01/2015
Looks just like my elementary school
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03/01/2015
Hide under the desk in case of an atomic bomb.
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03/01/2015
We had a "cloak room" for coats and boots.
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03/01/2015
The Catholic schools still teach cursive. I'd not be surprised if some are still using those wooden desks, too.
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03/02/2015
Had the same desks, chalk board and cursive writng when I atarted Grade 1 in the now gone Karpaty School. Grades 1-4 in one room, Grades 5-8 in the other room!
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03/04/2015
(y)
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03/05/2015
Oh heck, for grades 3, 4 & 5 I went to a one room school with one teacher teaching grades 1-8. No indoor water or restrooms, pump and out house. 49 students total. Lutheran school in Shobonier, Illinois
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03/08/2015
ugh! so glad those days are over...although at that year I was too young yet to be in school.....
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We stayed in our seats and had to pay attention... Little ink wells were located in the right upper corner and a potato. We used metal ink pens with wooden staffs and dipped the pen tips in the potato to get the starch on the metal surface to hold the ink we dipped from the little ink wells... Good memories still...
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03/12/2015
Yes, I do. Or I think so. Can't remember when we stated having plastic chairs. A long time ago. Maybe classmates will correct me.
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03/12/2015
I think it's so sad that they are no longer going to be teaching cursive.
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Sharon Mcdonald
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03/14/2015
it didn,t pay to have long hair and a boy with inkwell sitting behind you.
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04/14/2015
When I went to the elementary school in 1967, I sat behind a wooden desk with a ink pot on top and the desk would open so you could store things. And yes, we learned to write cursive.
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04/20/2015
Sad years, years of Civil revolution of racism, segregated schools was the worst lesson a child got .
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04/20/2015
That reminds me of Stockton School In Chicago, Illinois In 1967 , when I was In second grade.😃😃😃😃
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Karlynn Pisano
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02/22/2016
Mine had a circular inkwell in early years (1950s)
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02/27/2016
My Mom taught their for many years. In fact she was my teacher for one year. My Moms name was Mrs. Marburger. Miss my Mom very much.
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04/30/2016
this is the only country that doesn't enforce cursive writing and encourage students to expand their horizons.the U.S. isn't even one of the top five ranking countries in education.countries like china,germany,and england enforce proper education and most of the students know more than one language fluently
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03/01/2020
Our classes had 40 students, but we were quiet and rarely did anyone disrespect the teacher. We learned a lot😀
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Photo of David Burke David Burke
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03/01/2020
When we went to school each student had their own desk.
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03/02/2020
Take a picture now of the same class and you will see the future of America...
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03/02/2020
We had the same in Northern Indiana.
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03/02/2020
Yes snc had to crawl under them during bomb drill
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03/02/2020
I don't care what anyone says we should bring back spanking in elementary schools and even jr high. In starts in the home, most parents aren't spanking their kids, if they were it wouldn't be needed in school!
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03/02/2020
I was 12 in 1952&yes I remember
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03/04/2020
Jessie Whitten students could get paddled if they spelled "allowed" as "aloud."
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03/04/2020
Craig Holt I apologize for my misspelling from 5 YEARS ago. 🙄 it honestly was probably pregnancy brain. Because my youngest wasn’t even born yet. Oh was also working 2 jobs. So that could have done it too. 🤷🏻‍♀️ time flies when you aren’t concerned about spelling.
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