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[quote=Anonymous]Elementary school in a working class-lower middle class area in the early-mid 90s:

I grew up in an area that got a lot of snow in the winter, and we’d have to bring or wear boots in the winter, and bring snow pants to wear over our clothes for recess. We played on the snow mounds created by plowing the black top and the parking lots and they seemed huge at the time!

Kids were poorly behaved even then, but they were sent out of the classroom to the principal’s office and could get before or after school detention, or even weekend detention, starting in 2nd grade.

We read actual whole chapter books as a class and then had guided questions about them.

The “gifted program” took a bunch of kids from multiple schools and threw them together in a room once a week (for almost a full day, if it wasn’t your assigned school the bus would take you there after dropping you at your assigned school in the morning) for various “exciting” extension activities like extra math worksheets and film strips about art.

Most of the teachers were older and counting down the years until retirement. There was very little teacher turnover, for better or for worse. [/quote]

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