In my HS speech class, I demonstrated loading a cap and ball revolver.
OMG, TERRORIST! :)
I took a Type 56 Chinese carbine to my 8th grade `show and tell’. My Dad picked it up on one of his Indochina vacations.
“In my HS speech class, I demonstrated loading a cap and ball revolver.”
Yep, for me it was a calcium carbide cannon.
Times have changed.
I also remember the annual sportsman’s show at my local high school and bows and shotguns left in cars to hunt with after school.
My daughter and I created a small functioning cannon for show and tell.
My 5th grade teacher made “history” movies using the class as actors every year. Our class did “The Gettysburg Address” and for the opening scene of the movie, all four 5th grade classes at Fall Creek Elementary dressed in blue and gray to perform a “reenactment” of the Battle of Gettysburg. And we all brought our BB guns from home to play our parts. That was 1970.
I don’t think they’d let Mr. Raymond do that today.
Teeth will next be regarded as a sharp and dangerous implement if a student gets caught biting into an apple and a chunk rips right out of it!
1968, Northern central Mass. High school. Several of us used to bring our .22 rifles to school and leave them in the office to go rabbit hunting out behind the football field after school. A box of .22LR in another pocket we’d also leave in the office with the vice principal. No permission slips, no sign in/out sheets, no one thought anything about it except rabbit stew the next day for supper.