Posted on 02/23/2018 6:55:50 PM PST by mdittmar
Lived in Bixby Knolls 15 years. There is a book about the sociology of Lakewood as a created post war boom community. I used to own it. Ever read it? Interesting.
LOL! A lot of my cousins went through that.
I went to what was probably a typical suburban elementary school in the late 1950s-mid 1960s.
What I notice is that the teachers seemed a lot more mature and better educated than many elementary school teachers that we have today.
And the kids were better behaved. Mostly from two-parent families, with moms at home.
k-1 Alexander Hamilton Elementary
2-3 Wetzel Road Elementary
4-5 Soule Road Elementary.
Oak Drive Elementary in Plainview, NY 1967-70. Best time to have grown up. Can’t imagine what it is like now.
Same here. Catholic school for grade 1 through 8. I was taught by Franciscan sisters who were wonderful, dedicated women.
I was fortunate to be a student in a high school also taught by Franciscans.(Sadly, that order is now a disgrace to the Church.)
Some elementary school in Newton KS, then 6th grade at Roy R Marriott in Palmdale CA about 1960, it has since been demolished.
It’s nice to know I’m not the only old fart here.
I went to elementary in the Cayuga Heights Elementary School built in 1924. It was a grand old building, all granite, the sort of civic STRONG buildings that used to be built and demonstrated pride in the community. A large addition was built onto Cayuga Heights Elementary School in the late 1950s. It was made out of brick and steel with wide halls and wide exterior doors, lots of glass. It was “modern.” My sister went to school in the new addition while I was in the original building which had all the charm and character.
Unfortunately, the old building was razed sometime in the 80s or 90s so they could build a more modern school on the site. I live in California now where all the school district does is add more and more “portable” classrooms. I don’t know why they are called “portable” because they stay put for decades.
You do feel old when the old things you knew are no longer there - schools, restaurants, fraternity houses, even many of the industrial power plants I started in the early 70s are now rusting hulks.
Blessed Sacrament, Newark, N.J. grade 1-8. 1945-1953. Nuns, Sisters Of St. Joseph. Best education I could have had. Very tough but very fair.
Public school in Denver CO.
Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Our Lady of Fatima School
Secane, PA
Immaculate Heart of Mary Nuns
1957 - 1965
Local parish school in Philly. Classes “taught” by nuns (Sisters of St Joseph) who had no training in education. Class sizes of 50+ with one nun and no assistant. “Textbooks” that were 15-20 years out of date. Discipline was far more important than content. Survived.
Yale.
You got that right! I don’t recall a single kid I grew up with coming from a broken home. Everybody had two parents and hardly any moms worked. The word “divorce” was occasionally whispered.
Just noticed you’re flying the Canadian flag. My mother was born in Picton, Ontario. My great-uncle served with the 38th Btn. (Ottawa) CEF in WWI. He was killed a couple of months before the Armistace, and is buried in a British Military Cemetery in France. I’m also a cousin of Tim Horton’s, or at least I would have been a cousin if he lived. I live in Rome, NY, down the road from the old Griffiss Air Base. We have NORAD here, and from time to time, I run into Canadian Air Force members who are working there.
I worked with a girl who went there. And I used to drive by it all the time, up a high hill. Right?
Alot of old farts here;)
Same for me - six different elementary schools in three different states.
That is a blessing.
Do you have children? Did/are you homeschooling them, too?
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