School Days
By Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99367)
Atlanta, Georgia
April 9, 2022 8:54pm CST
When I started first grade we lived on a street with lots of children. One close neighbor had two boys older than me. The were given the responsibility of seeing me safely to school. They were at the upper end of the street so they stopped by for me and as we went down the street other children joined us.
We walked at least a mile and by the time we got to school there were probably at least fifteen of us. Older and younger children. It was a back street and we took up the whole road. Drivers were careful to watch out for us.
We had some mean boys that walked with us that were troublesome. I’ll tell you more about them in another discussion. I’d like to read about your school days. Teachers, events, anything you’d care to write.
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@snowy22315 (209108)
• United States
10 Apr 22
I almost always road the bus to school, but ocassionally I road my bike to school when the weather was nice, at least in ES. The junior high and HS were further away.
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@moffittjc (128840)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 Apr 22
I went to a private school that was pretty far away from where I lived, so we had a bus pick us up. It was about an hour ride on the school bus, which meant we left for school before all the other kids and returned home from school after all the other kids. I hated that I couldn’t see all my neighborhood friends at school since they all went to public school. But slowly over the years, more and more of my neighborhood friends started going to the private school since the public elementary school had a reputation for being a bad school.
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@moffittjc (128840)
• Gainesville, Florida
11 Apr 22
@RubyHawk Because we had such a long bus ride, I always did my homework on the bus on the way home from school in the afternoon, so that when I got home I could go out and play with my friends. And the long bus ride in the mornings was the perfect opportunity for me to do some quick cramming on test days!
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
11 Apr 22
@moffittjc I don’t recall that I did that, probably not. That was a smart thing to do.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
10 Apr 22
You must write a discussion about your school days. I only walked the first year . After tha I rode the school bus and as you did, I rode the first bus in the morning and the last one in the afternoon. It made for a long day for a child. We had no private schools in our small town.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
11 Apr 22
I remember walking with a group of people but only when we were going home. I have a block in my memory with that part of my life.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
12 Apr 22
@RubyHawk I wish I could remember the good parts.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
13 Apr 22
@ElusiveButterfly I have a sister that says she can’t remember anything before she was twelve years old.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
11 Apr 22
thats kind of how it was with me in my first 5 yrs of school before we started moving around. Only I started out with the girl that lived across from me.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Apr 22
@RubyHawk when I was 10 yrs I walked with Betty ann and we had a girl Edna moved there new that year that liked a boy who liked me, Dale. He was nice but I wasn't interested other then friends for boys. but she got mad and started an actual hitting fight with me. We ended up both in trouble with parents. Funny thing is, we ended up being best friends after that.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
12 Apr 22
@bunnybon7 That can happen. Girls get jealous and get over it. I had a few best friends all through school but lost touch with them long ago.
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@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
14 Apr 22
So there was no School bus system?
Our school was at least 15-16 Km. away and we had to use a school bus.
Some older as well as younger ones were nuisance creators yet we had some older students who dealt well with them.
I enjoyed reading this discussion!
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@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
14 Apr 22
@RubyHawk
School bus experience would have been quite different I suppose!
How were your teachers?
Strict, friendly or a mix?
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@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
15 Apr 22
@RubyHawk
Well most were good.
But there were a few difficult cases.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
10 Apr 22
Ah those days when people could be trusted
I love that photo dear Ruby such a doll
I love that photo dear Ruby such a doll1 person likes this
@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
10 Apr 22
@RubyHawk Oh haha cuties
I know I am not with it lately so not well Ruby
I know I am not with it lately so not well Ruby1 person likes this
@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
10 Apr 22
@RebeccasFarm I’m sorry you’re not well. Hope everything will be okay.
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@aninditasen (18202)
• Raurkela, India
11 Apr 22
I cycled to school from grade 4. I had some very troublesome classmates who tried to bully me and I reacted too. Moreover I was a good student with lots of other good qualities so these students were jealous and tried to hurt me. My teachers loved me a lot. I had only one good friend who is still in contact with me.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
12 Apr 22
@aninditasen That sounds nice to remain involved.
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@aninditasen (18202)
• Raurkela, India
12 Apr 22
@RubyHawk We have a big group in Facebook of all our school mates. We do have school meets sometimes. We share each others views, happiness, sorrow and a lot more.
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Who are the beautiful children in the picture?
@porwest (112896)
• United States
13 Apr 22
lol. I absolutely hated school and everything about it. Nothing pleased me more than the day I graduated. In fact, a semester early.
I remember getting called into the principal's office and he sat me down and explained I had more credits than needed to graduate and so I would be done in January instead of May, to attend the ceremony in May.
"Are you sure," I asked. "Yes," the principal said, "We are VERY sure." lol
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@porwest (112896)
• United States
14 Apr 22
@RubyHawk I was pretty amazed by it myself. It was not even like I was the type of student who ever really hunkered down in class. I actually personally felt that most of my high school years were a complete waste of time. But of course I had to do it.
I never went to college because I was pretty much done with "learning" and was ready to get on with things.
I became heavily involved in the stock market, then got into real estate, then into some private equity and other things, and the rest is history.
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@Juliaacv (56358)
• Canada
10 Apr 22
I had 3 brothers, 1 of which was older then I was, but I was always told to watch out for them, not them for me.
You are lucky that others looked after you instead.
Some of the kids from the other schools were loud and talked roughly on the bus, I remember my older brother's friends coming to my rescue a couple of times.
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@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Apr 22
I love the photo, Your school days sound interesting, I lived in the city so my school was about two blocks away and in the smaller grades my dad walked me to school. I wrote about having to learn both in English school and in Latvian school you might have seen my post,
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@LindaOHio (222727)
• United States
10 Apr 22
That's a cute picture. Who is in the picture. Thank you for your school memories. I will have to write about mine at some point.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
11 Apr 22
@LindaOHio Thank you. I think-so says a proud grandmother. 
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