I don’t know, a lot of people here seem to be exaggerating how “zero tolerance” people are about violent pictures/stories…do kids really get regularly expelled for that kind of thing? Really? Or for singing possibly violent songs?
Also, I graduated high school in '02, and I carried Advil on me for when I had cramps and the like…I’m not sure what the school policy was on that, but I doubt it was a big deal.
I think I may have mentioned this before, but our grad dance (aka “senior prom”) had both a cash bar and ashtrays on the tables.
In the regular school routine, our smoking area was anywhere outside the school. As long as you were outside, you were fine. I once won a bet by carrying a lit cigarette past the principal’s office during a class change.
We’d usually leave the school grounds for lunch. We’d hit the local coffee shop, the convenience store, whatever. The older kids who were of age would often hit a local bar for a beer. Leaving school at lunch was OK at our school and all the others in Toronto, but I understand that it’s uncommon in the US.
I did look it up on Google Images, also, purely for educational reasons…
Joe
Yes. It was brutal.
Not sure if it’s cause for expulsion, but having sex in a little-used bathroom during lunch. We were 16.
Keeping Tylenol in my locker for cramps.:rolleyes:
I am disappointed that most didn’t include dates of graduation in the answers.
I graduated in 82.
Senior week (last week) there were stratigically placed lockers in each building that will filled with PBRs (the only beer we could afford.) Most of the class spent that week shit faced.
Selling joints for a buck a piece in the lunchroom. Got caught once and had my stash taken away. No other action. I think the cafeteria lady took them for her own use. I kept the money though.
Smoking wasn’t permitted in the buildings but between buildings and on school grounds was perfectly okay. There were 5 buildings on campus.
However, if you were caught smoking in the restrooms…“Ladies, put those out…” was about the worse thing that would happen.
Leaving campus was permitted during off classes and cutting classes to leave campus was common. My sibling that graduated five years later from the same high school had a locked campus. No leaving during the day without a pass. Bummer.
Always had aspirin,tylenol, and whatever tranquillizer that was in mom’s medicine chest that month.
I had mace on a chain dangling from my purse for all four years. I got it at a self protection class sponsored by the high school.
Times have certainly changed.
In the early spring, baseball practice would often get moved inside due to weather. We would field on the basketball court and take batting practice in the wrestling room. We would load up the pitching machine with tennis balls and hit from close range. The first time practice got moved indoors in the spring, the varsity players would hit first, then JV, then the freshmen. The fresmen would all be lined up against the wall facing the pitching machine. We’d station a couple guys by the door, load up the machine, and at just the right moment someone would cut the lights and we’d just start spraying the fresmen with tennis ball from the machine’s highest setting. This would inflict some serious bruising.
The coaches all knew about it, it happened every year. The freshmen were expected to suck it up and take it. There’d be lawsuits today.
Check out Dazed and Confused the next time you’re at a video rental store for a dead-on portrayal of high school life in the late 1970s.
I went to high school in the early 1980s. The school, a magnet that was ranked among the nation’s best public high schools, was quite orderly; closed campus, no traffic in the halls between class, few fights, no smoking in the building, and so on. Still, students could get away with a lot more than in today’s no-tolerance era.
Students could bring pocket knives to school. A few of the geekier students had huge commando-type knives, but it was no problem.
Prescription and OTC meds: no problem.
The unofficial school cheer was “Kick their ass! Fuck 'em up! Go Tech Go!”
Religious holiday decorations were common. (Buffalo is a deeply Catholic city, but my high school still had a good number of Jewish students.
However, there was a lot we could not do compared to the students of today. A few examples:
Calculators were not allowed in math classes or for tests. They were permitted for physics, chemistry, electronics and engineering-related classes, though.
Considering the rate at which Walkman tape players and radios, Mattel Electronic Football games, and other such gadgets were confiscated (and returned a week later) by teachers, even in the lunchroom, cell phones would have never been allowed if they were around then.
In the 5th grade, my friend and I went through or “Ninja phase”. We used to bring homemade weapons to school all the time. Like nunchucks made with two sticks and small piece of a dog’s leash.
The most fun were the “throwing stars” we made by cutting roof shingles to various shapes using tin snips. If you threw them just right, you could even draw blood! (In a sand-paper abrasion kind of way).