I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

Did you ever get that?

No. I knew to behave because my parents reminded me trouble at school would double at home.

 

[Nomadicus]

Y'all please keep posting and jogging this cob web filled head of mind and you may shake a few more things out.

 

[AntiqueB]

I'm so old I remember when unruly kids in elementary grades had the pleasure of a detention where they got to clean the chalk dust out of the teacher's chalk board erasers.

Detention? In my elementary school, the best behaved had the fun of that job! We loved it, great clouds of chalk dust billowing out of clapped erasers!

 

[AGeese]

I'm so old I remember when unruly kids in elementary grades had the pleasure of a detention where they got to clean the chalk dust out of the teacher's chalk board erasers.

That would have killed me litterally. I'm not so old, but my parents are old enough to remember beatings in school.

 

[RoyalChick]

Detention? In my elementary school, the best behaved had the fun of that job! We loved it, great clouds of chalk dust billowing out of clapped erasers!

That’s what I remember too. We rushed to volunteer to bang the erasers together.

 

[MROO]

I'm so old I remember when unruly kids in elementary grades had the pleasure of a detention where they got to clean the chalk dust out of the teacher's chalk board erasers.

We LIVED for that privilege!

 

[Sally PB]

The sound! Chalk on a chalkboard is a specific sound, I like it.

I liked the "click" sound of the chalk on the board. The squeak/screech, not at all.

That’s what I remember too. We rushed to volunteer to bang the erasers together.

We got to bang them on the side of the building. That was fun.

When I started second grade, the room we were in had gotten new chalkboards over the summer. I don't know if it was the very first day, but early in the week, the teacher told us that we had to "break in" the new chalkboard by covering it with chalk. So we all got to line up at the board, take some chalk, and color the entire board.

It was one of them new-fangled GREEN chalk boards! Not the old black kind.

 

[jxp]

I'm so old I remember when the potato chip company put air in the bag to try to help cushion the crispy chips. I walked past as their stocker quickly, carefully, and efficiently placed each bag on the shelf display. I remember coming back later to choose a bag that didn't look crushed from other customers and the bottom of it didn't feel full of crumbs. I also remember the grocery checker grabbing the bag, slapping it across the scanner, and shoving it down the line followed by bowling a cabbage after it trying for a strike. Yes indeed, I still remember last Wednesday .

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That would have killed me litterally. I'm not so old, but my parents are old enough to remember beatings in school.

The elementary school here in my town still offers swats but the parents are required to sign at the beginning of the year authorizing them. I always cross out that paragraph in a big black X, and write "NO! If my kid needs swats, please call me and I will come take care of it!"

Nobody's going to swat my kid but me, and it's not going to happen in public. Of course they never called me and my kids never got swats.

The police got called a time or two, however ....

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I am so old I remember one of my classmates getting a beating from the principal, who was mother of 3 boys ( well behaved) as well , I don’t remember why he got a beating, but he was a WILD boy, when he got home, his dad gave him another beating, he talked to my parents and told them in his youth, he had been a wild man too, landed in prison, and that straightened him out, I remember there were 3 unruly boys and their tiny mother, she screamed at them, and they just ran away laughing ( he also told us about it on the bus ) I am against corporal punishment, but that was one boy that really got what he deserved ( after that, he settled down, some)