Posted on 01/25/2017 4:28:42 PM PST by markomalley
Dated? Try this! When I was in school, we walked home for lunch everyday. There was no lunchroom in school. In jr. High, the lunch ladies made lunch from scratch, goulash, sloppy Joe’s, meatloaf with real mashed potatoes and always veggies, etc. I usually brownbagged it, though, but always bought homemade cookies from the cafeteria which were gigantic and 5 cents a piece. They made them from scratch everyday in huge mixers. The peanut butter cookies were to die for.
First let some steers eat it and sell them as White House Trump Steaks.
I could support that.
I think “education” should be in whatever form and to whatever level parents and students decide. Homeschooling, tutors, online, books, and games should all be alternatives to sitting in a classroom all day long for 13+ years at the mercy of some pinhead teacher with views the parents don’t agree with.
What we need are a variety of certified private testing services administering exams like the SATs and the proficiency tests we took a few times a year when I was a kid in the 70’s. Comprehensive exams covering history and civics and science as well as the basic math, reading and grammar should be available to take online at any time.
Rather than transcripts of grades on individual courses, which are so dependent on the skills and subjective evaluation of teachers, such comprehensive tests should be the only criteria for getting diplomas.
Yay!! Pizza!!
I have fond memories of school lunches, back in the sixties mainly. The cost rose from 25 cents to 30 cents by the time I graduated (and in the late sixties the schools went through this phase of trying to be “buddies” to the kids by offering hamburgers instead of regular school lunches). But my favorite for years was, iirc, Tuesdays when we had chili, applesauce and ginormous cinnamon rolls. Milk was the only beverage served. I even remember working in the cafeteria to help pay for my lunches by scraping the metal trays of leftovers. I also remember Fridays as always being a somewhat bland vegetable soup of all the leftover vegetables from the week, but we ate it. Of course, this was a time when a trip to a fast food joint was maybe a monthly event.
The Moochie Odungo lunches ended up in the cafeteria garbage cans and the students lined up at the vending machines to buy cookies, chips, and other junk food. I saw this with my own eyes.
It wasn’t.even that for me since we did not even have fast food joints. We had a small restaurant near the schools which had hamburgers, etc. Oh. The best shakes for $.25. I worked there after my freshman year of college. One day a trucker came in and got a coffee and left me a $20 tip. I was thrilled. I talk to everyone and we had talked while he was there. Today, when I go out to eat, I always leave a nice tip because I remember that day. When I order delivery, I also give them a nice tip. Most are high school or college students and they are at least working. The small restaurant also had a soft ice cream place connected. So good. We would stop by if we were on our way home. We only had milk, too. The football field was behind the schools so they coke machine was there for fans or after school.
There was another option to school lunches and brown bagging it. Back in the days before security was an issue and and convenience stores weren’t on every corner, middle school and high school students could leave campus and walk to any number of close-by mom and pop grocery stores where they could purchase their lunches and eat them there or on the way back to campus. Some mom and pop stores offered hamburgers, sandwiches, and hot dogs specially prepared for the lunch time crowd in addition to regular groceries (candy, potato chips, etc).
Many’s a time I’d walk a mile to purchase an ice cold RC (deposit was 2 cents on the bottle if it left the store), a moon pie, and whatever else I could afford. You could hang around to eat it or eat it on the way back to campus with your friends. If you took the bottle you could toss it in the creek or some place and hope you could find it again if you needed to recycle the bottle and save the 2 cents on you next run.
Plenty of exercise, good conversation with your pals, and a break between classes. Of course, those days are only a past memory. People and society were so different back then.
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Wonderful memories! Thank you all!
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