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I learned the ins and out of clever bartering in the school cafeteria...especially on Sloppy Joe days. I also knew how to bribe those terrific-tasting rolls out of anyone and charm the dining staff into larger servings.
Also in the lunchroom, I was informed while standing in line one day that Santa Claus did not, in fact, exist. I was mortified and interrogated my parents about it as soon as I could. They were honest.
I learned that in some classes, being sent to stand in the hall was a way to relax, not a punishment.
And probably in kindergarten, I think, I learned that if you "do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around, that's what it's all about." I still tell myself, "It's really all about the hokey pokey; stop worrying so much."
You've have been better off if the teacher had been introduced you to R. Crump the creator of Mr. Natural (Keep on Truckin!), Fritz the Cat, and that unforgettable super hero Wonder Wart Hog (The Big Pig). Crumb also created one of the best posters of the 1960s entitled "Let's Talk Some Sense About This Here America".
Yeah except I grew up in NZ where American stuff was barely relevant...in fact, ignored entirely!
We learnt a lot of anti-war songs from the 60s (this was in the 90s) and my year 6 teacher told us that if you get a line of people, all holding hands, and one then touches a live power source (they used to open up the boxes on telegraph poles or something like when he was a kid) the one at the end of the line would get the electric shock.
We learnt a lot of anti-war songs from the 60s (this was in the 90s) and my year 6 teacher told us that if you get a line of people, all holding hands, and one then touches a live power source (they used to open up the boxes on telegraph poles or something like when he was a kid) the one at the end of the line would get the electric shock.
Who remembers a Bushel and a Peck? I learned that in school and Never used it.
The problem with Teachers today is that they are trying to teach from what they read during their school learning days.
How quaint to discuss the Titanic having never lived the time period or JFK for that matter. They read about it in some book somebody wrote after re reading the info in another book somebody wrote etc etc etc......thus the 2nd, 3rd, 4th print.
With each printing details get smaller from a paragraph down to a sentence here and there.
Ever go into a book store and see all the books that are written on any particular subject....they are laughable at times.
Who and what you believe is a matter for discussion and interpretation.
Reading the above posts it is NO wonder that the Asia students are out performing those in the US.
One thing missing today from what I gather is Geography....feel sure many people never knew or heard about Iraq etc before 9/11.
At my senior age of 83 am always learning NEW things....latest being that White is now considered the New Black.
I don't remember bushel and peck but remember "hay penny."
I swear, most of these odd memories come from various teachers with their songs.
"Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny than a hay penny will do, if you haven't got a hay penny then God Bless YOU! "
And:
"Gobble gobble gobble, i don't like Thanksgiving Day. Gobble gobble gobble I should try to run away." (Sang front the turkey's perspective but it's not like we were vegetarians)
Then another one spent almost the entire year telling us about the "Paul is Dead" hoax from The Beatles. We listened to and disected the entire Srgnt Pepper's album and all related album covers.
We spent my ENTIRE 5TH GRADE ON THIS! And hearing the ambulance and "I buried Paul" in that song scared the sh*t out of me!!
Ps- the schools always served pizza on Fridays and I thought that was because "Fridays are special." Later I realized that most people where I lived were Catholic and probably not supposed to eat meat on Fridays!
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A couple of years after elementary school, a math teacher told us he'd give extra credit to anyone who could produce the longest word in the English language.
No, it wasn't "antidisestablishmentarianism", although a number of my classmates submitted that word.
Instead, it was "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis ", aka "black lung". It turned up after I spent quite a lengthy while poring over my parents' unabridged "Webster's Dictionary". So I got my much-needed extra credit. Not sure what it had to do with math, however...
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