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[quote=Anonymous]I remember most things.

I remember some things I’m really ashamed of — a friend when we were 6 told me that she got a D on her report card and I told me my grandmother said that D stood for dunce.  She was so sweet and I realized almost immediately it was a mean thing to say.  I think in her case maybe D stood for dyslexia but back then they didn’t diagnose kids — just passed them along until they sort of gave up, mostly.

I remember a kid teasing me because he thought my last name was Irish (I swear this was in the 1980s, not the 1880s) and I told him it wasn’t even Irish, it was German, so he started calling me a nazi.  I feel like that wouldn’t be okay now!

I remember another kid getting hit by a rock in his head at the bus stop and it made a hole in his skull and he had to wear a helmet for years.  I shared that story on this site a while ago when a kid got hurt by a girl throwing a rock or piece of metal and some people suggested the girl was a sociopath or something.  In the 80s, the kid would obviously get punished but no one would think they were a sociopath — kids just did that stuff.  I knew another kid that did something similar and he’s a well respected lawyer now.

I remember all the playground equipment like the bars we hung upside down by our knees.  The best was the spinning thing — we had a youngish male PE teacher and we would all chant his name until he would do a power push to get that thing REALlY spinning!  He was very popular with the kids — the kind of PE teacher that made things fun and never made even the wimpy kids like me feel bad.

I remember almost all my ES teachers, good and bad.  In retrospect I really only had one bad teacher in ES. She used to yell at us all the time, and make me grade the papers, and I once heard her telling a girl that if she failed another math test she’d have to repeat 4th grade.  The girl did fail the next math test and was sobbing about having to repeat the grade.  The teacher then denied ever having said that and when th girl said I had heard it, the teacher basically forced me to deny it.  I felt awful about it and still remember that feeling  I later got teamed up with that girl for a project and realized she was basically illiterate.  In retrospect, I’m sure she had significantly learning disabilities but no one had gotten her th help she needed.  She was very bubbly and popular and I always thought she looked down on me until we had to do that project, and then I just felt bad for her.  That same teacher was the only one that ever gave me detention — for rolling my eyes once when she was on one of her rants yelling at us.

I also remember playing Star Wars with the boys (advantage of being the only girl geek was that I could always be Leia!), and also trying to play baseball with the boys at recess.

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