uphill both ways..in the snow
@scarlet_woman (23463)
United States
January 17, 2018 1:02am CST
the last round of bad weather and cold climes did damage to various schools in my area..
part of the reason being some were built pre 1880,and they've done very little to them since.
so they had busted pipes and such..
but it got me to thinking how spoiled some of these kids are compared to the "suck it up" days i went to school.
if the heat's below a certain temp,they get cancelled..no A/C?
heaven forbid.
now,before you think i'm being mean,lemme tell you something-
my school had giant full sun windows-9ft tall to be exact..so after a certain time of day in spring,it was over 85 degrees in there.no A/C for us.
..it gets worse..
3rd and 4th grade..my school had NO heat.we sat in our coats,blowing smoke in class.
how can this be?
because half my school burnt down.the boiler exploded while it was on fire
that's right..they still made us go to the unburnt half.
and you had to smell the yuck all day every day.
i could just imagine the poor lil snowflakes dealing with that.
nowadays,there'd be trauma suits.
hell,I can still smell that if i think about it.
we must have been the last generation told crap builds character.
we must have been the last generation told crap builds character.8 people like this
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@Plethos (13718)
• United States
17 Jan 18
one year we still had to go to class while the roof was being tared. i told the teacher i need to go, i feel like puking, permision was denied. so i just walked out. lol, half the class followed me out. to this day, i can still smell that tar.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
17 Jan 18
oh that tar is awful smelling.thankfully they did that here in summer,but as i live up the street from the school we got occasional whiffs..
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@Plethos (13718)
• United States
18 Jan 18
@scarlet_woman - the thing though was that i had two classes, back to back in the same building at the time. principal wanted to give me detention for walking out of class, i rresponded by telling him to f**k off and get bent. he said theres no other solution, i said yes there is, since im affected more than the other kids, why cant i just come here to the office until the tarring is done? it made too much sense to him. funny thing was, the teacher never reported me, it was the 3 people that hated me who "reported" (snitched) on me.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
17 Jan 18
I never had heading problems at my school, and my public school was so good that until I met more Americans, I had no dang clue why so many people said public school sucked. I had it dang good. On the other hand, though I was born in the 1980's, in a lot of ways I was raised like I was born in the 30's. What can I say? I had GOOD PARENTS! When i hear the way some kids complain, I like to try some of Grandpa's old "when I went to school..." stories. LOL "Up hill both ways" is a classic.
One year the cost of electric heat went up so high that my husband and I turned it down at home, only keeping it warm enough not to freeze the pipes. We wore coats and mittens and hats to BED several nights. LOL
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
17 Jan 18
oh yea..i wear a hoodie to bed sometimes.the hood is snuggly
@rebelann (117226)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Jan 18
You're makin it sound like yer really old, I'm 68 and can't recall going to school not properly dressed for either winter or summer and I don't really recall much about either heat or A/C, all I recall is, once we got to El Paso, there were no trees and how I felt it was really odd that there were no trees.
I do recall those horrific sand storms though. Back in the mid 1960s parents didn't drive kids to school nor pick them up so we had to walk to school which was just under a half mile up the street, not that far to walk but when the sand storms hit and that sand blasted the back of my legs .... yeah, girls had to wear dresses back then .... it stung.
Some of those kids had to walk over 2 miles in that crap, I considered myself lucky at the time.
The best part of living here is that when it came to winter it didn't really get that cold and usually the worst of the heat was in June but by then we were on summer break.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
17 Jan 18
i have never understood why in the northeast,they don't make vacation winter.i know i would have loved it over summer vacation myself.
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@rebelann (117226)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Jan 18
I haven't a clue why there was ever a standard to begin with @scarlet_woman but maybe back in the really old days many kids had to help out on farms and couldn't go to school in the hectic spring and summer months when they were needed to help out.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
17 Jan 18
Last year a bunch of high school students in a neighboring town walked out of class in protest because the AC was broken in one building, and it was "inhumane" to make them go to school with no AC. I grew up without AC. To me, AC is a privilege, not a right. We didn't have AC the entire time I was in elementary school, and in middle school (which was year round) we would be forced to run the mile in P.E. even if it was 110+ degrees out. Yeah, this generation of snowflakes wouldn't have survived growing up back in the day.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8765)
• United States
18 Jan 18
Yes, I don't think they tell people that anymore.1 person likes this
