What are you thinking about? Part VI

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Jane B. said:
Quite a contrast although we both had outdoor playtime during daylight hours. I went to the same grade school all eight years (no kindergarden offered by school system although I did go to a private one that rented a room in the same grade school building). And then the same high school for all four years.

They did have a pattern of tearing them or part of them down after I got out of them. The grade school had a new building constructed about 4-5 blocks from where the one I went to was. The old one was used for storage, sold and then torn down. That location is now a church parking lot and apartment building.

The oldest building on the high school campus was torn down a (one of 6) and replaced about 6 years after I graduated. A whole new campus has since been built in a different location. The old campus has been sold and is rented out for different things including part of it being an alternative school.
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I went to 12 different schools, which includes four high schools, East and West coasts. I don't know the status of all of them. I know a few have been either torn down, renamed or repurposed.
 
Jane B. said:
Not sure if this is the best place for this or not. But I have been thinking of it off and on for some time.

Back when I went to school the grade schools in town were grades 1 through 8. The Junior High or Middle School came much later. And I do not remember the kind of bullying that is talked about so much any more. I keep wondering if which classes were/are in the same building is a big factor?
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When I went to school (50's-60's), I went to private K-5 (half day), then public elementary school (grades 1-6), then junior high school (grades 7-8). Two high schools that I attended were grades 9-12 (East Coast), and two (West Coast) were grades 10-12.

When my mom was in public high school (40's), the girls and boys went to separate schools.
 
Teenagers.....:roll:....rule in my home was that homework was after supper or by 7pm....when the dining room table was cleared....Doing their homework in their rooms?...had to put a stop to that....Goofing off and listening to music or on the phone....Thanking my lucky stars I survived it all with 3....
 
Reba said:
When I went to school (50's-60's), I went to private K-5 (half day), then public elementary school (grades 1-6), then junior high school (grades 7-8). Two high schools that I attended were grades 9-12 (East Coast), and two (West Coast) were grades 10-12.

When my mom was in public high school (40's), the girls and boys went to separate schools.
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Probably a location thing but I started grade school in 1948 and even my mother went to the same grade school starting in 1910 and the schools here were co-ed. My dad went to a one room country school at the same time my mom was in grade school in town.
 
The longer daylight hours here and Reba and Jane's posts reminded me of playing outside in the warmer months, when I was a younger child <pre-high-school>...this woulda been the late 70's/80's we'd play out there as long as we could including into the dark. Sometimes I'd sit around outside at night with adult family friends of ours, or the parents of my own friends, batting away the mosquitoes, watching my friend's folks smoke and drink and swear at the kids... this was also pre-Lyme Disease and pre-sunscreen.... I grew up in the city and went to urban public schools. I remember playing "Blood Murder" in the abandoned yard of the next door neighbor <she had died - she was an older person, with a bunch of cats...being kids, we called her the Cat Lady>. We liked the dark for that game since it added more of a scary element, and who could scream the loudest was fun. I mostly had neighbor kids as playmates. Sometimes we played in the street though I personally wasn't supposed to. And we played in alleys - rode our bikes, messed with rocks, skated, made snow mounds with the piles that the plows made, in the Winter.

My old middle school still stands and is now a junior high and language specialty school. I thought I heard something about my elementary school closing in the last couple of years, but hubby and I used to live by it when we lived in the city still. I have sad and crappy memories of those places but loved high school.
 
Jane B. said:
If we are going back to what we did — I was in the habit of going out to play as a grade schooler between the time school let out at 3:00-3:15 and supper time. Being only about a couple blocks from school there was not time lost to travel for me and the other neighborhood kids. This pattern carried over to high school (even though I did ride a bus about 3 miles to get home or walk about a mile and a half) with other relaxing until meal time. But I am not surprised if the pattern has changed since the 1950s.
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My son can do his homework later when I get home but he chose to do it right away to get it over with and then play afterwards. Whatever works for him, I am good with it. :)
 
It'd be really nice to take a vacation. Really haven't had one in forever.
 
Jane B. said:
Probably a location thing but I started grade school in 1948 and even my mother went to the same grade school starting in 1910 and the schools here were co-ed. My dad went to a one room country school at the same time my mom was in grade school in town.
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My mom went to school in Southeastern Connecticut.

My dad attended a one-room country schoolhouse in Depression era farm country of Indiana, until high school. (Overalls, no shoes, no electricity.) Then he went to a small high school. He lived with his grandparents, and ran a radio repair business at the farm when he was 10 years old, using battery power. He sent his profits to his divorced mom in Connecticut. He went on to get a 4-year degree in two years in electrical engineering. So, I guess his education was adequate.
 
Konijnen said:
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Lol cute! Did he get the idea from this picture?
 
SilverRoxy said:
Lol cute! Did he get the idea from this picture?
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I think Derek was a psychology major and cats and ferrets neatly turn away uncomfortable conversation subjects with no hostility.

You watch his timing.
 
my son became teenager I never understood him his lips never moved unless it was borrow a quid that was clear.Took about 5years before understood what he said
ahh 50/60 school very different we given bit of credit for common sense afraid kids wrap up in cotton wool or scared to touch or play with girls incase 6year old treated as sex offender...We got out to play and very few kids were overweight we inacted read books etc now it fb awful computer games fat kids
 
Iowa State just won big time! Onward to the Big 12 Championship!
 
Frisky Feline said:
I FEEL YOU!!! Kids doing homework is ok. But we asked them to read book on their own, as they say "why." My kids work on writing skill so we asked her to write anything. Its struggle for us to make them to do, read the book and write the stroy. :*thud*:
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My son hates to read and write. He likes to read comics or anything that has pictures in the books/magazine, etc. He wants me to write what he signs because ASL is his first language. I refused to and told him to do it himself. The fight begins. I want him to use his critical thinking skills to be able to write on his own. He can write but he just gets extremely frustrated when it comes to that.
 
shel90 said:
That sucks!

I have been lucky with my daughter. She just turned 17 yesterday. She would spend hours on the weekends studying instead of going out with friends often. She said she wants to get into medical school and she has to start being serious about her schoolwork early. She has always been diligent with her homework. I was always like that too about my homework. I never gave my mom a hard time about it while my brother did.

My son who is 8 already does his homework as soon as he gets home and by the time I get home, it is done but wait and see when he is a teenager.

However, my best friend who has two girls who are 13 and 11 battles with them day in and day out about homework.

Hope this will pass soon!
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I hope this is just a rebellious phase that will eventually pass, lol. Some of the time my son is good at doing homeworks but he won't be willing to do anything that makes him write. He also has ADHD which probably stems his frustration on being able to focus but, I'm not excusing him for that. He is also on medication for his ADHD. It's not a time release tablet. It just becomes a day in and day out battle that gets really old.
 
SilverRoxy said:
Good strategy!
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Yes!!, Botts is right. I did start as a psychology major, but changed to deafness rehabilitation counseling. I don't feel like I'm making a good use of my major those days.

I do get tired of silly posts so I talk about vehicles with turbocharged engine, cats clapping, or deaf ferrets learning sign language. Just because.....
 
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