Breakfast club was a little before my time. I graduated in '93, from a high school in Orange County, CA (and they didn't serve sushi.)

I remember baking brownies for a friends birthday and when I brought them in, I just brought in the whole pan (uncut) and a huge knife to cut them with at lunch--thinking some friends might want bigger or smaller pieces... One of the lunch monitors saw me with the knife, and asked why I had it. I just explained it was to cut the brownies and she said it was fine. I can't imagine that would happen today!

I love the 80s angry athletic dancing. Emilio and of course Kevin Bacon. Nowadays it's what, krumping?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a flare gun, not a real gun.

But still today, that would set off panic for sure.

I also remember a song from the 80's called "the homecoming queen has got a gun"
If you don't remember it look up the video / lyrics it was a total spoof song but I can't imagine what would happen if a radio station played that song today

If it were a black male student, he'd be good as dead with a toy gun. Shoot first, think and ask questions later.

IDK, it's the white kids who shoot up the schools.

Anonymous wrote:If those kids were in all-day detention today they would spend all their time looking at their phones and wouldn't even talk to each other.

This is the truth! Unless phones were confiscated.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched that movie and didn't know what on earth the sushi stuff Molly Ringwald was eating. Now that I have gotten out of the hamlet and know about these things, I still think that's an unrealistic lunch.

Where do you live? In CA, some of the HS serve sushi, mostly CA rolls and cooked stuff.

DC. Don't know anything about what high schools in CA serve. She had a little pot of soy sauce, chopsticks, the works. I still think that's unrealistic.

in my kids' elem school there are students who bring sushi for lunch (and it is never japanese kids).

Anonymous wrote:I watched that movie and didn't know what on earth the sushi stuff Molly Ringwald was eating. Now that I have gotten out of the hamlet and know about these things, I still think that's an unrealistic lunch.

Where do you live? In CA, some of the HS serve sushi, mostly CA rolls and cooked stuff.

I watched the movie recently with my teen and he loved it. I went to high school before that era, and my take on it is that we would have DIED sooner than cry in front of each other and bare our souls the way they did. We were the "cool" generation, sadly.

I watched that movie and didn't know what on earth the sushi stuff Molly Ringwald was eating. Now that I have gotten out of the hamlet and know about these things, I still think that's an unrealistic lunch.

Anonymous wrote:Didn't a kid get into trouble because he took bites out of his pop tart to make it look like a gun?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/examiner-recommends-school-board-uphold-pop-tart-suspension/

Think there was also a kid who got in trouble for making a shape of a gun with his fingers and play shooting his friends.

Didn't a kid get into trouble because he took bites out of his pop tart to make it look like a gun?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/examiner-recommends-school-board-uphold-pop-tart-suspension/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a flare gun, not a real gun.

But still today, that would set off panic for sure.

I also remember a song from the 80's called "the homecoming queen has got a gun"
If you don't remember it look up the video / lyrics it was a total spoof song but I can't imagine what would happen if a radio station played that song today

If it were a black male student, he'd be good as dead with a toy gun. Shoot first, think and ask questions later.