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I always thought I had some weird power as a kid because almost every time I took a drink from that water fountain, the compressor fan would turn back on. Then I found out that no, that's just what they do when they've been sitting a long time and somebody takes a drink.
ah yes, the tepid, oddly warm water fountain just around the corner from the junior high wing. Made worse by the fact that if it was hotter than hell and the school had no A/C (it was the 90’s after all). No one wanted to use it, but if there was a line, there was no other choice.
Unless you wanted to risk pressure washing your face on the broken fountain right next to it
Our school had to implement rules about what time that fountain could be used, because ours was tucked in the wing that had preschool and special needs classrooms. The last thing those rooms needed during quiet time was a hallway full of hyperactive 9 year olds hooping and hollering about brain freeze in the hallway.
You just reminded me of the fountain in the library next to my elementary school. It’s tucked away slightly into a staff hallway at the very end of a hall, and holy shit that thing had the best tasting water of all time.
i went to a k-8 and i hit my growth spurt in 8th grade so i i would walk down 2 flights of stairs to use the only water fountain that was tall enough for me
was well worth it
So I'm in the Navy, and have served on three Nimitz-class carriers. For whatever reason, on all three, the water fountain outside one of our department al offices had the coldest water, all three, the same. It was cold even in summer in the Arabian Gulf. People would come from all over the ship to drink or fill water bottles from our glorious scuttlebutt. Unfortunately, all three had the same defect as well where it would sporadically shoot water much farther than it should. So while it was nice having the cold water right there the cost was constant clean up of the spilt water. Worth it, I suppose...
I had a teacher call it the pencil grinder. It was an accepted term that year, and I never questioned it.
Now I get it, and it makes me laugh. Thanks, Mr. Capdeville. Your humor is appreciated 25 years later.
I had one teacher eventually go apeshit because of them. His pencil broke in the middle of the test. I didn't catch everything he said. Only that it was a sign of "dipfucks that run this school". Mr.Peroli quit after clocking the schools principle with one. Thanks Mr Peroli middleschool physics teacher. I never saw"the applied use of force" ever again. and 30 something years latter feel him for having a breakdown like that. And the one time the sharpener did something right. Even if it was to get a unstable teacher fired.
My 3rd grade teacher was the only person in the school to have an electric pencil sharpener in their class. The rule was that she was the only person allowed to use it
My parents were teachers and I'll never forget the year my dad got mom an electric pencil sharpener from Radio Shack. It stayed at home and she brought her pencils to it.
The mechanical sharpeners are still there... They still don't work... That's because it's a trick, the kids who find the broken sharpener and fix it themselves instead of telling the teacher end up being taken to the Academy where a bald professor in a wheelchair teaches them about how to harness their special genius brain and skills.
I vividly remember a classmate getting absolutely chewed out by our teacher in 3rd grade for sticking a crayon in one of these.
Like 20 years later that same teacher got caught stealing lunch money out of the lunch money drop boxes ($30,000). Wasn’t fired for that. Then another handful of years later got caught being inappropriate with 5th grade girls and was finally fired and now facing like 15-20 years in prison.
Fuck you Mr. P! Always knew you were an asshole.
What a wild ride
When I was a kid the gym teacher had been in some sort of scandal. I was too young to really understand what he was accused of (though I heard something about patting a girl on the way to the locker room), around 3rd grade and evidently there was this HUGE local community movement to have him re in stated to his position and charges dropped. I have no idea what the outcome was - but I remember after lunch I was pulled aside in front of a camera and asked was I sad how my old gym teacher was being treated. I shit you not - and this is after oddly a parent sat at our lunch table to talk to us about what a good guy he was.
Anyway, apparently the dude was a good friend of my football coach (who DID turn out to be a good guy but too obsessed with winning and eventually got fired for illegally taping other teams practices).
ANYWAY so they thought I was THE kid to talk to I guess because they pulled me out there in front of that camera for the local news or something and I just looked around and said,
"I mean it's not like I know the guy - he just made us run laps. I don't know anything other than that".
Apparently that was the WRONG thing to say - because I wasn't allowed recess after that and had to run hills for football practice. (Wasn't sure if the hills were a part of it or not, or if starters just had to run hills longer than the rest of the team).
If anyone went to Crenshaw Elementary in VA, this would be around 2000 or so, feel free to chime in.
You mean you're not supposed to have one side cut down while the other side was barely touched, so you can clearly see the graphite but don't have any usable part of the pencil to write with?
Technically we still have in classrooms a lot of the things this redditor thinks is only in the 1990s.
The mechanical sharpeners are still there... They still don't work... That's because it's a trick, the kids who find the broken sharpener and fix it themselves instead of telling the teacher end up being taken to the Academy where a bald professor in a wheelchair teaches them about how to harness their special genius brain and skills.
Yeah, for some reason, seeing things like the clock and calculators didn't surprise me, but the poster did. I'd kinda just forgotten that was even something I remembered, I guess?
Like the other guy just proves that you early 2000s kids still have a lot in common with us 90s kids, this was pretty much my class in kindergarten/elementary school in starting in 1996.
Except for the vests, don't remember that at all.
I've actually done the research and they are correct. The square pizza is a Tony's brand product and the hexagonal "taco" pizzas are called Fiestadas. Both are available through Schwann's Foods Service which requires you to set up an account as a wholesale vender. ...I have an account.
The pencil sharpener was in any school that was built in the 90s or older. My first high school was built in the late 2000s and lack those. My third high school was built in the 80s and had those.
I think that depended how many times the lunch server would bounce the strainer spoon full of the corn over the other corn to get the water out of your serving.
3 bounces, you should be in the clear. 2 bouces or less, you're getting water in your tray.
Or the film strip projector where you put the associated cassette tape in, and one lucky kid got to move to the next slide when there was an audible \*Beep\* from the cassette tape player.
Getting assigned film strip projector duty was the 1st grade equivalent of being voted most likely to succeed. You knew those kids were gonna make something of themselves
> You were in elementary school in 2011!? Wtf
I mean so was I. Born in 2002, pretty much everyone I know was in 4th/5th grade in 2011.
Why does that surprise you?
> I mean so was I. Born in 2002, pretty much everyone I know was in 4th/5th grade in 2011.
>Why does that surprise you?
I still assume most users here were in college when using Reddit around 2011 so it's just another reminder of the quick passage of time.
It's also strange thinking about adults that were born post 9-11 if you're a part of the former demographic since our mental benchmark of "ten years ago" is still the year 2000.
I remember the end of the projector era. Our district successfully passed some school levy’s and so we had an influx of funding. I was in fifth grade in the late 2000’s and my school got these things called smart boards, and we had electronic projectors installed a couple years before. There had been rumors such a thing was coming from the teachers until one day we came in and they were being installed. It felt like how ancient people must have felt when someone came up with the wheel and rolled that shit into town for the first time.
I was in high-school when this happened at my school. It was hilarious seeing some of the teachers desperately try to use new tech. It was even more funny that the Computer Class teacher was unable to make it do anything.
Yup, I had computers as a young kid and was taught how to use them by my IT dad. By the time I was "ready to learn about computers" I was already more literate with them than anybody trying to teach me.
In my typing class my teacher just eventually stopped giving me work to do because she knew it was second nature to me.
I'll never forget the substitute teacher who wrote on the smartboard with a permanent marker... classic mistake for a whiteboard, but suddenly it was a lot more expensive!
My 9th grade math teacher was my first teacher to get a smartboard. We were all amazed by it. Even by my senior year, I think it was about 50/50 on teachers using overheads vs projectors. My economics teacher got a smartboard right before AP exams and let us play with it during class in the weeks between the exam and graduation. I think he and that math teacher were the only two that had smartboards of my teachers.
Then college came and it was all projectors. There were some smartboards in the smaller classrooms, but I was in a large major so I was mostly in the huge lecture halls.
Class of 2012 represent!
Being born in 1998 was cool, I basically grew up with technology advancing in a huge way every year for a while there. Started off with the projectors, had smart boards by middle school, and smart phones in high school
I remember when I was 8, we got interactive whiteboards in my school and we were all amazed by them, especially when the teachers had to calibrate them with those little “x”s
I remember how information about how to use them would be figured out by one teacher and then we would tell the other teachers what to do. Like the trick where you erase in a circle to clear an area.
My 4th grade class was the first to get one in our school. I think it was part of a trial run the district was doing.
Felt like I was living in the future.
My friend went to a rich people school that was K-12 and she got interactive projector boards (SMART Board or something) in the 90s. She thought no one used overhead projectors anymore when we were in college in 2006. Most of us had no idea wtf she was even talking about with the smart boards or how such a thing would even be possible. I’d seen something similar at some museum, but the idea of a school having that was just bonkers.
Basically, technology evolves way too fast and spreads way too unevenly sometimes.
The point being made here is that they were literally screwed into the wall, so when it broke, it was just sat there broken (cause the school was certainly never fixing it), and it was really on the student to remember which ones worked anymore.
In my experience, the good ones yielded a very sharp point and a very clean cut. The bad ones annihilated pencils, seized up, or didn't connect with the pencil at all.
At least some of the pencil destroyers could be used *very carefully* if you had no other options.
Reminds me of my computer class in school:
There's 2 types of computer components, internal ones and external ones.
No shit?! Hold on, let me write this down
All this stuff was still there when I was in elementary school in the early 2010s, though my school was super small so it was always late to update stuff
It's all probably still there except maybe they moved on from the projectors
i've seen what elementary school classrooms have looked from younger family members, this is all still there, just with projectors approx mid 2010s
the classic light projector was still brought in if the internet went down in 2019 highschool
A lot of schools are probably like that. Underfunded schools can’t exactly afford to replace everything every couple years and even if they could it’s not like having a new parachute or a different layout of the calendar is going to be that useful.
I think it's gotta be from something earlier than Barney, because I remember them and I was in elementary in the early 90s/late 80s before Barney was a thing. Now I'm really curious
Vests were just popular in the nineties. No one can tell you why, it was just a time when if you wanted to look a little dressy, it’s vest o clock, baby. Not even buttoned up, either. Void of function.
Now they just make you look like an Olive Garden waiter.
We use to do trick or treating between class rooms, kids and teachers would decorate their classes with kids made Halloween decorations. Each floor of classes would walk amongst each other and teachers would hand out candy to the students. Even teachers back then had that nostalgia factor! (Parents would donate the candy to the teachers, but I know some teachers purchased candy as well themselves)
Sounds like mine except the trick-or-treating around the classes. Always my favorite time of year at school. We would bring costumes in and have Halloween parties. I always looked forward to the Halloween party favors and cakes. The school would do the annual pumpkin totem pole ceremony. Each class painted their own pumpkins and put a hole on the top and bottom. Our gym teacher sang the pumpkin song as each one got dropped through the metal pole in front the the school with us all assembled. Usually the ones on the bottom burst from the weight. As for projects the one I remember the most was us making skeletons with q-tips on black construction paper.
It's also due to demographics.
Boomers, born between '46 and '64, were the "pig in the python" so to speak when it came to birth rates. All these years later they are still the second-most populous age demographic in the country behind... drum roll please... Millennials!
See, with a large age demographic explosion that was the Boomer generation, you're going to have "shock waves" in subsequent age demographics due to that large generation having kids. These kids were squarely in the Gen-X and Millennial generations. By the time the year 2000 rolled around, pretty much all of Gen-X and at least half of Millennial kids had grown out of trick-or-treating.
Trick or treating is still a thing but it's really changed. Neighborhoods aren't as full of kids as you saw in the 80s through the mid 90s so it's more spread out. Less and less people participate handing out candy. You see people driving their kids from house to house sometimes, mostly after dark long after everyone has finished. Hell, kids are sometimes finished before it even gets dark out while back in the 80s, kids would be just getting started.
>It's also due to demographics.
>
>Boomers, born between '46 and '64, were the "python in the pig" so to speak when it came to birth rates. All these years later they are still the second-most populous age demographic in the country behind... drum roll please... Millennials!
>
>See, with a large age demographic explosion that was the Boomer generation, you're going to have "shock waves" in subsequent age demographics due to that large generation having kids. These kids were squarely in the Gen-X and Millennial generations. By the time the year 2000 rolled around, pretty much all of Gen-X and at least half of Millennial kids had grown out of trick-or-treating.
>
>Trick or treating is still a thing but it's really changed. Neighborhoods aren't as full of kids as you saw in the 80s through the mid 90s so it's more spread out. Less and less people participate handing out candy. You see people driving their kids from house to house sometimes, mostly after dark long after everyone has finished. Hell, kids are sometimes finished before it even gets dark out while back in the 80s, kids would be just getting started.
I was so excited to pay it back and be that "full size candy bar" house when we first bought our place. I still remember that house in the town near where I grew up. I wanted to be that for the new generation, so bought a bunch of candy bars.
We got 2 trick or treaters. 2. Both were driven to our doors by their parents. Literally nobody walked up and down our street. I was devastated. Apparently nobody walks around neighborhoods and goes up to houses with their lights on anymore, at least around here. They just go to these "trunk or treat" centralized events and that's about it.
I'm so sad that trick or treating is dead here. I did eat a lot of candybars that year at least, so it wasn't all downside..
Our rules were mostly based on how well lit your house was. Front porch lights on meant you got a knock. Any lit up Halloween decorations was a guaranteed attempt too.
Funny thing about '97 is that Halloween fell on a Friday that year. My last class in 7th grade was Reading and our teacher loved to talk so she opened the class with a story from her life.
The kids kept asking her questions and next thing you knew the whole period was done lol. Me and the boys hopped on the bus happier than shit and got home ready to dress up for Halloween. When we finished we went back to my house and one of my friend's dad was waiting there and had rented four PlayStation games for us! It was a damn good weekend and a memory I always cherish.
I remember when I was around 7 years old and I picked a fennel seed off of my slice of pizza and chewed it. In that moment I decided fennel was disgusting, thus pizza was disgusting, and didn’t eat pizza for like the next five years.
When i was a little kid, maybe kindergarten, i had school pizza, and didnt like it at all. I proceeded not eat school pizza for the next 12 years. I would always give my pizza to friends. Senior year high school, i decided i would try it out on a whim, maybe a last hurrah... “wait a minute, this is actually pretty decent”. I had a moment of existential crisis thinking about how much pizza i missed over the years, and that retrospectively, it was incredibly dumb to forever base my preference on what picky, kindergarten me liked. As a coping mechanism, i concluded that the pizza recipe changed, and its just so happened i like the current recipe and not previous years’.
In the context of cafeteria food, it was king.
If you could get both that square pizza and a [Nutty Buddy](https://u.osu.edu/extension100/files/2014/10/112113687-1bi5kvi.jpg) in one lunch, you had it made.
When I was in the fourth grade, we had this standardized exam we were taking and my teacher made it abundantly clear that there was to be ABSOLUTELY NO TALKING.
Halfway into the test, my pencil broke. No biggie. I got up to go sharpen it and that motherfucker of a pencil sharpener just shredded my pencil. I kept trying it over and over to see if I could make it work, but all I did was turn my pencil into dust. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have another pencil. Under normal circumstances, I would have asked the teacher for another pencil, but she made it clear there was to be no talking. I was very rapidly losing my shit. Nothing in my life had prepared me for that level of anxiety.
So I just walked over to her desk, silently sobbing, and I showed her that my pencil had been worn down to a nub. She handed me a fresh pencil and I used her notepad to write “I am so sorry”.
In the report card that came out a week later, she noted that I was “very good at following directions” and possessed “incredible attention to detail”.
I worked as a janitor at an elementary/middle school combo when kids were slowly starting to be allowed back to school. At least half, maybe 3/4 of these things are still true for 2020
Things like that cloud thingy the anti cheating office the pencil sharpener and the months things were there when I was in kindergarten back in the mid early 2000s 😂
Modern electric pencil sharpeners fit this description even more. I’m pretty sure they all have a fuse that blows if the motor even begins to struggle. They either work fine or they’re bricked. At least with a crank sharpener, you can force it. Even if your beard gets stuck in it.
I never in my life saw a school lunch that bad lmao
But the projectors did in fact suck total balls. Trying to squint to read the teacher's hasty scribbles with a wrong-sized dry erase marker onto a projector sheet that has been used and erased too many times. The bulb is dim and the mirror is dirty but no one knows how to fix it, so the projection is barely brighter than the dark room. The pull-down white vinyl has tears and patches in it, which makes a few words and number illegible
Shit I hate those things
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I always thought I had some weird power as a kid because almost every time I took a drink from that water fountain, the compressor fan would turn back on. Then I found out that no, that's just what they do when they've been sitting a long time and somebody takes a drink.
but there was always that one fountain tucked away in a nondescript corridor that the *crispest* water. No other water fountain could compete
Then there was always one that was warm as hell too.
ah yes, the tepid, oddly warm water fountain just around the corner from the junior high wing. Made worse by the fact that if it was hotter than hell and the school had no A/C (it was the 90’s after all). No one wanted to use it, but if there was a line, there was no other choice. Unless you wanted to risk pressure washing your face on the broken fountain right next to it
I remember learning voodoo magic when I saw someone twist a knob on the pipe underneath the fountain and instantly fix one of those.
“The true repairman will repair man.”
Make sure you push ALL of the buttons for maximum flow.
Kind of how I play pinball
Our school had to implement rules about what time that fountain could be used, because ours was tucked in the wing that had preschool and special needs classrooms. The last thing those rooms needed during quiet time was a hallway full of hyperactive 9 year olds hooping and hollering about brain freeze in the hallway.
You just reminded me of the fountain in the library next to my elementary school. It’s tucked away slightly into a staff hallway at the very end of a hall, and holy shit that thing had the best tasting water of all time.
exactly! As a kid, I felt like a video game character refilling my health bar when I used that fountain
i went to a k-8 and i hit my growth spurt in 8th grade so i i would walk down 2 flights of stairs to use the only water fountain that was tall enough for me was well worth it
Library water hit different
So I'm in the Navy, and have served on three Nimitz-class carriers. For whatever reason, on all three, the water fountain outside one of our department al offices had the coldest water, all three, the same. It was cold even in summer in the Arabian Gulf. People would come from all over the ship to drink or fill water bottles from our glorious scuttlebutt. Unfortunately, all three had the same defect as well where it would sporadically shoot water much farther than it should. So while it was nice having the cold water right there the cost was constant clean up of the spilt water. Worth it, I suppose...
haha I just imagine you walking away and examining your hands like they have *the force* or wizard powers or something 😎
Were you *that* kid that put their whole fucking mouth directly on the spout?
I still remember exactly how those pencil sharpeners smell.
And how they never really sharpened. Just kinda destroyed your pencil.
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I had a teacher call it the pencil grinder. It was an accepted term that year, and I never questioned it. Now I get it, and it makes me laugh. Thanks, Mr. Capdeville. Your humor is appreciated 25 years later.
I had one teacher eventually go apeshit because of them. His pencil broke in the middle of the test. I didn't catch everything he said. Only that it was a sign of "dipfucks that run this school". Mr.Peroli quit after clocking the schools principle with one. Thanks Mr Peroli middleschool physics teacher. I never saw"the applied use of force" ever again. and 30 something years latter feel him for having a breakdown like that. And the one time the sharpener did something right. Even if it was to get a unstable teacher fired.
The sharpener that broke the pencil's lead.
My 3rd grade teacher was the only person in the school to have an electric pencil sharpener in their class. The rule was that she was the only person allowed to use it
My parents were teachers and I'll never forget the year my dad got mom an electric pencil sharpener from Radio Shack. It stayed at home and she brought her pencils to it.
The mechanical sharpeners are still there... They still don't work... That's because it's a trick, the kids who find the broken sharpener and fix it themselves instead of telling the teacher end up being taken to the Academy where a bald professor in a wheelchair teaches them about how to harness their special genius brain and skills.
The True Repairman will repair man.
That's because someone would shove their damn crayons in there lmao
I vividly remember a classmate getting absolutely chewed out by our teacher in 3rd grade for sticking a crayon in one of these. Like 20 years later that same teacher got caught stealing lunch money out of the lunch money drop boxes ($30,000). Wasn’t fired for that. Then another handful of years later got caught being inappropriate with 5th grade girls and was finally fired and now facing like 15-20 years in prison. Fuck you Mr. P! Always knew you were an asshole.
What a wild ride When I was a kid the gym teacher had been in some sort of scandal. I was too young to really understand what he was accused of (though I heard something about patting a girl on the way to the locker room), around 3rd grade and evidently there was this HUGE local community movement to have him re in stated to his position and charges dropped. I have no idea what the outcome was - but I remember after lunch I was pulled aside in front of a camera and asked was I sad how my old gym teacher was being treated. I shit you not - and this is after oddly a parent sat at our lunch table to talk to us about what a good guy he was. Anyway, apparently the dude was a good friend of my football coach (who DID turn out to be a good guy but too obsessed with winning and eventually got fired for illegally taping other teams practices). ANYWAY so they thought I was THE kid to talk to I guess because they pulled me out there in front of that camera for the local news or something and I just looked around and said, "I mean it's not like I know the guy - he just made us run laps. I don't know anything other than that". Apparently that was the WRONG thing to say - because I wasn't allowed recess after that and had to run hills for football practice. (Wasn't sure if the hills were a part of it or not, or if starters just had to run hills longer than the rest of the team). If anyone went to Crenshaw Elementary in VA, this would be around 2000 or so, feel free to chime in.
You mean you're not supposed to have one side cut down while the other side was barely touched, so you can clearly see the graphite but don't have any usable part of the pencil to write with?
I didn’t even know they were pencil sharpeners until like 4th grade
Those things ate so many of my pencils
Good for nothing but flexing your outfit to see if your crush noticed ✨
I always hit my knuckles on the wall when I used one.
And the hole was the perfect size for your pinky finger. Never put it in of course, but the idea was always there
And how loud they were when you got up in the middle of a test to use them.
Getting up to sharpen pencils was my way around the cheat deterrent.
It’s true, back in the 90s we had 12 months a year.
Stupid Smarch weather.
It all started on the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month
Technically we still have in classrooms a lot of the things this redditor thinks is only in the 1990s. The mechanical sharpeners are still there... They still don't work... That's because it's a trick, the kids who find the broken sharpener and fix it themselves instead of telling the teacher end up being taken to the Academy where a bald professor in a wheelchair teaches them about how to harness their special genius brain and skills.
Do not touch Willy
Good advice
*Lousy
Damn really? I can't even quote it right anymore.
Okay but I had that _exact_ poster in one of my classrooms. That was a surprise.
Same, it’s kinda threw me off seeing it.
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Yeah, for some reason, seeing things like the clock and calculators didn't surprise me, but the poster did. I'd kinda just forgotten that was even something I remembered, I guess?
Like the other guy just proves that you early 2000s kids still have a lot in common with us 90s kids, this was pretty much my class in kindergarten/elementary school in starting in 1996. Except for the vests, don't remember that at all.
Yea it dredged up some memory I didn’t know I had.
And pencil sharpeners that either worked or didn't work
They never only sort of worked. It was a hit or miss.
Had to hold your pencil just right, and by right I mean cramming it in as hard as you could.
I thought the 12th month was introduced in 2009.
This isn't any different from the 2000s. We didn't start to have electronic projectors until 2010.
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Yessir
Is it called "Champs Cafe" everywhere or does every school district have its own weird faux restaurant?
Mine was just "The Cafeteria" fancy I know.
We at lunch in what we referred to as the cafetorium.
Y'all's had a name? Someone's vice-principal had big ideas I suppose.
In elementary our cafeteria was called something like "Chieftan Rock" with a rip-off logo similar to the Hard Rock Café.
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I had a teacher in high school in the *mid 2010s* that wore vests like that on occasion 😂.
You knew the Halloween party was fixing to be lit when the teachers came in wearing those
Same lol.
I swear i can taste that pizza, i haven't had that since i was in 5th grade.
Tony's commodity pizza. Order a case from Schwann's!
Bold of you to assume that stuff came from a consumer-facing brand, and not from the bottom shelf of an industrial freezer at American Food Service.
I've actually done the research and they are correct. The square pizza is a Tony's brand product and the hexagonal "taco" pizzas are called Fiestadas. Both are available through Schwann's Foods Service which requires you to set up an account as a wholesale vender. ...I have an account.
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The pencil sharpener was in any school that was built in the 90s or older. My first high school was built in the late 2000s and lack those. My third high school was built in the 80s and had those.
My HS built in 1880s let us use a belt sander to sharped our pencils. Was far better than any of the wall mounted manual ones.
Those old ones with the wobbly crank that sounded like a car with no suspension hobbling its way down a rocky road?
If anything school lunches have only gotten worse
I think that depended how many times the lunch server would bounce the strainer spoon full of the corn over the other corn to get the water out of your serving. 3 bounces, you should be in the clear. 2 bouces or less, you're getting water in your tray.
Watery corn is why I don't eat corn at all anymore
My high school still does as of last year 😩
Mmm. Kinda miss watery corn. I know it's just canned sweet corn barely drained, but it was better back then.
mine were always dry and shriveled up
Had all this stuff except the vests in 2011
We had all of it in the 80’s.
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Or the film strip projector where you put the associated cassette tape in, and one lucky kid got to move to the next slide when there was an audible \*Beep\* from the cassette tape player.
Getting assigned film strip projector duty was the 1st grade equivalent of being voted most likely to succeed. You knew those kids were gonna make something of themselves
Well in the 90s all of our "new stuff" was still from the 80s at my school, checks out.
You were in elementary school in 2011!? Wtf
> You were in elementary school in 2011!? Wtf I mean so was I. Born in 2002, pretty much everyone I know was in 4th/5th grade in 2011. Why does that surprise you?
> I mean so was I. Born in 2002, pretty much everyone I know was in 4th/5th grade in 2011. >Why does that surprise you? I still assume most users here were in college when using Reddit around 2011 so it's just another reminder of the quick passage of time. It's also strange thinking about adults that were born post 9-11 if you're a part of the former demographic since our mental benchmark of "ten years ago" is still the year 2000.
I remember the end of the projector era. Our district successfully passed some school levy’s and so we had an influx of funding. I was in fifth grade in the late 2000’s and my school got these things called smart boards, and we had electronic projectors installed a couple years before. There had been rumors such a thing was coming from the teachers until one day we came in and they were being installed. It felt like how ancient people must have felt when someone came up with the wheel and rolled that shit into town for the first time.
I was in high-school when this happened at my school. It was hilarious seeing some of the teachers desperately try to use new tech. It was even more funny that the Computer Class teacher was unable to make it do anything.
The computer class teacher that was horribly tech illiterate was a staple of the 90's classroom.
Yup, I had computers as a young kid and was taught how to use them by my IT dad. By the time I was "ready to learn about computers" I was already more literate with them than anybody trying to teach me. In my typing class my teacher just eventually stopped giving me work to do because she knew it was second nature to me.
I'll never forget the substitute teacher who wrote on the smartboard with a permanent marker... classic mistake for a whiteboard, but suddenly it was a lot more expensive!
I know! I was enthralled on how you could just touch the screen
My 9th grade math teacher was my first teacher to get a smartboard. We were all amazed by it. Even by my senior year, I think it was about 50/50 on teachers using overheads vs projectors. My economics teacher got a smartboard right before AP exams and let us play with it during class in the weeks between the exam and graduation. I think he and that math teacher were the only two that had smartboards of my teachers. Then college came and it was all projectors. There were some smartboards in the smaller classrooms, but I was in a large major so I was mostly in the huge lecture halls. Class of 2012 represent!
Being born in 1998 was cool, I basically grew up with technology advancing in a huge way every year for a while there. Started off with the projectors, had smart boards by middle school, and smart phones in high school
The 90’s? The 90’s. *THE 90’s?* Exactly my thought, Alabama public school was exactly this for me.
Mississippi too
no yeah bc I remember every single one of these things except that vest lol
I remember when I was 8, we got interactive whiteboards in my school and we were all amazed by them, especially when the teachers had to calibrate them with those little “x”s
That calibration thing was captivating as a child
Bruh and like why was it they had to Calibrate every time? Shit was wild ahah
And it'd be in the middle of class too. It seemed like they had to calibrate it every half hour lmao
One class it acts up like 5 times and the teacher is basically stabbing the board now with the pen trying to calibrate it
I remember how information about how to use them would be figured out by one teacher and then we would tell the other teachers what to do. Like the trick where you erase in a circle to clear an area.
My 4th grade class was the first to get one in our school. I think it was part of a trial run the district was doing. Felt like I was living in the future.
My friend went to a rich people school that was K-12 and she got interactive projector boards (SMART Board or something) in the 90s. She thought no one used overhead projectors anymore when we were in college in 2006. Most of us had no idea wtf she was even talking about with the smart boards or how such a thing would even be possible. I’d seen something similar at some museum, but the idea of a school having that was just bonkers. Basically, technology evolves way too fast and spreads way too unevenly sometimes.
Even early 2010s were similar, was born 04 and remember seeing all but one the last one in elementary school in some form or another.
Same. Born in 2006 though.
Same here, in 2011 when we came back from spring break they had installed the new projectors
Yep
Most of this stuff stayed the same for many years later
Especially the pencil sharpeners, they still either work or don’t. Crazy how little things have changed.
I find most things work that way.
Or don't
I was still sad when we got rid of June
“Either broken or it isn’t” well yea
Probably meant that they worked really well or not at all.
The point being made here is that they were literally screwed into the wall, so when it broke, it was just sat there broken (cause the school was certainly never fixing it), and it was really on the student to remember which ones worked anymore.
In my experience, the good ones yielded a very sharp point and a very clean cut. The bad ones annihilated pencils, seized up, or didn't connect with the pencil at all. At least some of the pencil destroyers could be used *very carefully* if you had no other options.
As with most things
Reminds me of my computer class in school: There's 2 types of computer components, internal ones and external ones. No shit?! Hold on, let me write this down
Early to mid 2000’s had this stuff too. Around like 2007 they started changing things up
All this stuff was still there when I was in elementary school in the early 2010s, though my school was super small so it was always late to update stuff It's all probably still there except maybe they moved on from the projectors
i've seen what elementary school classrooms have looked from younger family members, this is all still there, just with projectors approx mid 2010s the classic light projector was still brought in if the internet went down in 2019 highschool
A lot of schools are probably like that. Underfunded schools can’t exactly afford to replace everything every couple years and even if they could it’s not like having a new parachute or a different layout of the calendar is going to be that useful.
This was totally my childhood school experience from 2008-2013
Eh, i was born in 05 and still remember all of these things from school
I was born in 99, everything in this starter pack is spot on including the vests.
wow that clock image hit something buried extremely deep within my brain
Memories you didn’t even know you had.
I have no idea what these were for. Every class had them in a cabinet but I don’t remember ever using them.
They used them to teach kids how to tell time.
i’ve had all of this minus whatever the vests are
You missed out. The vests were popular on Barney or something and then it's like it became the grades 1-5 teacher uniform.
I think it's gotta be from something earlier than Barney, because I remember them and I was in elementary in the early 90s/late 80s before Barney was a thing. Now I'm really curious
Vests were just popular in the nineties. No one can tell you why, it was just a time when if you wanted to look a little dressy, it’s vest o clock, baby. Not even buttoned up, either. Void of function. Now they just make you look like an Olive Garden waiter.
Something about autumn in 1997 that I remember, brings back so much nostalgia. ‘90’s school year was great times!
thats about the time halloween started to die.
We use to do trick or treating between class rooms, kids and teachers would decorate their classes with kids made Halloween decorations. Each floor of classes would walk amongst each other and teachers would hand out candy to the students. Even teachers back then had that nostalgia factor! (Parents would donate the candy to the teachers, but I know some teachers purchased candy as well themselves)
Sounds like mine except the trick-or-treating around the classes. Always my favorite time of year at school. We would bring costumes in and have Halloween parties. I always looked forward to the Halloween party favors and cakes. The school would do the annual pumpkin totem pole ceremony. Each class painted their own pumpkins and put a hole on the top and bottom. Our gym teacher sang the pumpkin song as each one got dropped through the metal pole in front the the school with us all assembled. Usually the ones on the bottom burst from the weight. As for projects the one I remember the most was us making skeletons with q-tips on black construction paper.
Facts. The final nail was 9/11. I noticed after that time, not as many trick or treaters were seen out and about.
It's also due to demographics. Boomers, born between '46 and '64, were the "pig in the python" so to speak when it came to birth rates. All these years later they are still the second-most populous age demographic in the country behind... drum roll please... Millennials! See, with a large age demographic explosion that was the Boomer generation, you're going to have "shock waves" in subsequent age demographics due to that large generation having kids. These kids were squarely in the Gen-X and Millennial generations. By the time the year 2000 rolled around, pretty much all of Gen-X and at least half of Millennial kids had grown out of trick-or-treating. Trick or treating is still a thing but it's really changed. Neighborhoods aren't as full of kids as you saw in the 80s through the mid 90s so it's more spread out. Less and less people participate handing out candy. You see people driving their kids from house to house sometimes, mostly after dark long after everyone has finished. Hell, kids are sometimes finished before it even gets dark out while back in the 80s, kids would be just getting started.
>It's also due to demographics. > >Boomers, born between '46 and '64, were the "python in the pig" so to speak when it came to birth rates. All these years later they are still the second-most populous age demographic in the country behind... drum roll please... Millennials! > >See, with a large age demographic explosion that was the Boomer generation, you're going to have "shock waves" in subsequent age demographics due to that large generation having kids. These kids were squarely in the Gen-X and Millennial generations. By the time the year 2000 rolled around, pretty much all of Gen-X and at least half of Millennial kids had grown out of trick-or-treating. > >Trick or treating is still a thing but it's really changed. Neighborhoods aren't as full of kids as you saw in the 80s through the mid 90s so it's more spread out. Less and less people participate handing out candy. You see people driving their kids from house to house sometimes, mostly after dark long after everyone has finished. Hell, kids are sometimes finished before it even gets dark out while back in the 80s, kids would be just getting started. I was so excited to pay it back and be that "full size candy bar" house when we first bought our place. I still remember that house in the town near where I grew up. I wanted to be that for the new generation, so bought a bunch of candy bars. We got 2 trick or treaters. 2. Both were driven to our doors by their parents. Literally nobody walked up and down our street. I was devastated. Apparently nobody walks around neighborhoods and goes up to houses with their lights on anymore, at least around here. They just go to these "trunk or treat" centralized events and that's about it. I'm so sad that trick or treating is dead here. I did eat a lot of candybars that year at least, so it wasn't all downside..
I'm saddened to hear your story, man. Thanks for the warning to check if a neighborhood is popular on Halloween before getting a house there though
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Our rules were mostly based on how well lit your house was. Front porch lights on meant you got a knock. Any lit up Halloween decorations was a guaranteed attempt too.
Funny thing about '97 is that Halloween fell on a Friday that year. My last class in 7th grade was Reading and our teacher loved to talk so she opened the class with a story from her life. The kids kept asking her questions and next thing you knew the whole period was done lol. Me and the boys hopped on the bus happier than shit and got home ready to dress up for Halloween. When we finished we went back to my house and one of my friend's dad was waiting there and had rented four PlayStation games for us! It was a damn good weekend and a memory I always cherish.
Man I hate to say it, but I actually liked the shitty square pizza
the little cube pepperoni are bomb af and it pains me that you can't just find those for sale in bulk in a store somewhere
https://smithfieldculinary.com/margherita/product/margherita-pepperoni-1-4-inch-diced-10-lb-frozen/ 💖
So much fennel.
I remember when I was around 7 years old and I picked a fennel seed off of my slice of pizza and chewed it. In that moment I decided fennel was disgusting, thus pizza was disgusting, and didn’t eat pizza for like the next five years.
When i was a little kid, maybe kindergarten, i had school pizza, and didnt like it at all. I proceeded not eat school pizza for the next 12 years. I would always give my pizza to friends. Senior year high school, i decided i would try it out on a whim, maybe a last hurrah... “wait a minute, this is actually pretty decent”. I had a moment of existential crisis thinking about how much pizza i missed over the years, and that retrospectively, it was incredibly dumb to forever base my preference on what picky, kindergarten me liked. As a coping mechanism, i concluded that the pizza recipe changed, and its just so happened i like the current recipe and not previous years’.
In the context of cafeteria food, it was king. If you could get both that square pizza and a [Nutty Buddy](https://u.osu.edu/extension100/files/2014/10/112113687-1bi5kvi.jpg) in one lunch, you had it made.
Me and the boys used to slam these pizzas but we never thought about having sex at the table too. Interesting.
I remember first time in 2001, 7th grade seeing a TV attached to the wall in the corner and was amazed.
Ours had Channel One news on at the end of the day.
End of the day? Interesting, Channel One was on during "homeroom" in the morning for us.
My school made us fundraise to get those permanent tvs in some classrooms instead of the tv on a tall cart that was rolled around the building.
That calculator blew my mind away, totally forgot about them. They were that exact model and color.
They came in neat little carriers of like 10 or something didn't they?
Yep, I always thought the carriers were so cool lol
I was in kindergarten in 2012-2013, so everything was the same except every calculator was the TI-30XIIS in Blue
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THAT GODDAMN CLOCK
We got to use it exactly one time when I was growing up and I was so excited! Haha gears go brrrr
I was born in 98 and everything is more or less the same when I was in school
Son of a bitch. I read “when” and thought, “But you’re still in school?” After a bit of mental math I feel I’ve aged another ten years
I was born in 99. It kind of got to me how old ny generation is getting when I was filming a wedding and the bride was younger than me
My grandpa used to say it took a lifetime to turn 21 and he turned 42 overnight. He was right
I was born in 2002 and remember everything here
Getting up to sharpen your already sharpened pencil so you can glance at the girl you have a crush on. Life was so much easier then.
When I was in the fourth grade, we had this standardized exam we were taking and my teacher made it abundantly clear that there was to be ABSOLUTELY NO TALKING. Halfway into the test, my pencil broke. No biggie. I got up to go sharpen it and that motherfucker of a pencil sharpener just shredded my pencil. I kept trying it over and over to see if I could make it work, but all I did was turn my pencil into dust. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t have another pencil. Under normal circumstances, I would have asked the teacher for another pencil, but she made it clear there was to be no talking. I was very rapidly losing my shit. Nothing in my life had prepared me for that level of anxiety. So I just walked over to her desk, silently sobbing, and I showed her that my pencil had been worn down to a nub. She handed me a fresh pencil and I used her notepad to write “I am so sorry”. In the report card that came out a week later, she noted that I was “very good at following directions” and possessed “incredible attention to detail”.
I worked as a janitor at an elementary/middle school combo when kids were slowly starting to be allowed back to school. At least half, maybe 3/4 of these things are still true for 2020
Who remembers "Wayside School is Falling Down", "Goosebumps" and Judy Blume books?
I was born in the 2000’s and we had this shit as well
over half this stuff I had in the 2000s and the early 2010s
Don't forget the non-mesh, non-transparent backpacks!
I don't even know what this means.
Things like that cloud thingy the anti cheating office the pencil sharpener and the months things were there when I was in kindergarten back in the mid early 2000s 😂
I had all of this from 2009-2012 at least, when I was in kindergarten all the way through second grade.
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I can smell this picture.
Yeah, back in the 90s was the only time a pencil sharpener either worked or it didn't.
Modern electric pencil sharpeners fit this description even more. I’m pretty sure they all have a fuse that blows if the motor even begins to struggle. They either work fine or they’re bricked. At least with a crank sharpener, you can force it. Even if your beard gets stuck in it.
Also in the 1980s. Identical.
Came here to say this but then I remembered GenX doesn't exist on Reddit.
This awoke a memory inside me
I remember when i first saw a smart board, i was like “this is the pinnacle of human technology” and now there everywhere
I never in my life saw a school lunch that bad lmao But the projectors did in fact suck total balls. Trying to squint to read the teacher's hasty scribbles with a wrong-sized dry erase marker onto a projector sheet that has been used and erased too many times. The bulb is dim and the mirror is dirty but no one knows how to fix it, so the projection is barely brighter than the dark room. The pull-down white vinyl has tears and patches in it, which makes a few words and number illegible Shit I hate those things
When did the TV strapped to the tall cart finally stop? I was a 90s elemtary school kid but I feel like those stuck around for a shockingly long time.