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Question

1. Did u attend high school? Did you want to? What kinds of subjects did u study? What kind of homework did u have? Did most of the adolescents in your neighborhood go to high school?

2. How many hours per week did u work(not including school-relted work)? How much did you contribute to the family income? Did you want to go to work?

3. What were your clothes like? Were you concerned about fashion?

4. Did you date in High School? At what age were you allowed to date? What did you typacally do on a date?

5. How did you and your friends spend your free time?

6. What was your most nagging problem as a teenager?

7. What do u see as the main difference between the teenagers of today and yourself as a teenager? What do u think of tadays teenagers?

Answer 1

1. Did u attend high school? Did you want to? What kinds of subjects did u study? What kind of homework did u have? Did most of the adolescents in your neighborhood go to high school?

Yes I attended high school. No I didn't want to, I wanted to party with my friends lol..We studied history, science, algebra, english. My homework was of those. Yes, all adolescents in my neighborhood went to high school.

2. How many hours per week did u work(not including school-relted work)? How much did you contribute to the family income? Did you want to go to work?

Well I worked at the A&W as a car hop. I worked about 20 hours a week. I didn't contribute anything to the family, they didn't want anything. I enjoyed going to work because all my friends would come and see me and get me stoned lol..

3. What were your clothes like? Were you concerned about fashion?

I wore the in clothes..mini skirts, bell bottoms. I was concerned about fashion but not as much as others.


4. Did you date in High School? At what age were you allowed to date? What did you typacally do on a date?

Yes, I dated at 16 but chaperoned by one of my sisters and her boyfriend. We ususally went to the drive in movies.

5. How did you and your friends spend your free time?

going to the lake and partying


6. What was your most nagging problem as a teenager?

My father complaining about the length of the guys hair I liked. or curfew...

7. What do u see as the main difference between the teenagers of today and yourself as a teenager? What do u think of tadays teenagers?

The teenagers of today don't have great manners or respect for others. They are given more and asked less of. They seem to be more angry. They are raised in broken families. Technology is definately in theirs lives. They don't seem to want to do anything outdoors. They always have a cell phone hanging off their ear...their world and my world are two totally different worlds.

Answer 2

1) I graduated High School in 1972. I enjoyed school. I took; math, science, English, History, gym...no computer classes then!
I did not know anyone who did not attend and graduate from High School.
2)I worked at a shoe store when I was 17...3 hrs per week.
When I was 18 I worked at a local amusement park over the summer. My family let me keep all the money I made.
3) I was a nerd, caring very little about how I looked. I always felt self conscious when I tried something stylish. I did have long hair in High School.
4) I had very few dates.. I remember taking my dates to movies (Fiddler on the Roof, MASH) and to a dramatization of Jesus Christ Superstar.
5) We played street football, swam at the town pool, Most of my friends were on the track team ( I amazed everyone (Especially myself) by earning a varsity letter)
6) My shyness was my biggest problem. I met a magician at the amusement park and started taking magic lessons. That changed my life as I learned how to talk to people.Now I earn extra income by lecturing!
7) I have two kids, 22 & 14 and frankly, I dodn't see any important differences between what they go through and my life. I had Viet Nam hanging over my head, you have Iraq. In my day, girls wore minis, today they wear....er...no comment.
What do I think of todays teens? I look at them and know, the future is in good hands.

Answer 3

I am 52, Yes I attended High School, It was not a case of want to. You just did it, no question.
I had English, Spanish, High School Maths, Algebra, and Calculus. Biology, Chemistry, Advanced Biology, History, American, and Social Studies. I had, gym, music voice lessons, Art, Home Ec. Typing.
I had as little home work as I could get away with.
Every one went to School, no one questioned it.
I came from a fairly wealthy Eastern Massachusetts Town.


I worked about 20 hours a week after School, more in the summer. My mom forsebly took money every week.
Not like she needed it! I found a way to hide about 1/2 my salary so she could not take it. We were not poor by any means, she was just wierd!
I was smarter! Yes I wanted to work, I had a horse to pay for, and I wanted out of the house bad enough to save for it!

My clothes were NOT in FASHION! Again my mom was wierd!
I had to wear below the knee wool skirts, white cotton blouses and matching sweaters.
In the middle of the late sixties and early seventy's I could not wear, slacks, never mind Jeans to school. Also, in her mind, Girls who wore panty hose, or tampons, were no longer Virgins???


I was NOT allowed to date until... YUP, until it suited them!
My boyfriend had an early exceptance to Harvard, and was a Co-Captain on the Foot Ball team, and even though I was Catholic, He was the President of the local Episcopol Youth Group.
THey GAVE HIM A KEY TO THE HOUSE??????????????
Talk about double standards!



We did two things on a date, 1.SAT at his house and catered to his perfect family, and 5 siblings
2. Borrowed his familys station wagon and screwed our brains out.
NOT much of a date!


My most nagging problem was my most nagging 60 year old mother , yes she was 60 while I was in high school.
AND I was an only child


All that being said, and I now have two children 32 and 26 , pluss 3 grandsons, The biggest difference is respect and a fear to displease.
See, I respected my teachers, and other elders, even my parents who were in a different millenium

My biggest fear, was that I would hurt the people who loved me, even if they were wierd.

Kids today, do not seem to have that love, respect and fear of dissapointing the ones that should mean the most to them. In short, MOST kids don't give a crap about any one except them selves. I think that is the main difference.

Answer 4

1. I'm 53. I attended an overcrowded highschool so we had split shift. 8-12 and 12-4. I attended 12-4. I would say all adolescents I knew went to high school. I studied shorthand and typing (on a manual typewrited!) The usual subjects, English, Algebra, Geometry, Social Studies, Biology, etc. Also, we had a dress code. Girls had to wear dresses or skirts and they had to touch the bottom of our fingertips when we stood up. Boys were not allowed to wear jeans because the "rivets" could damage the desk chairs.

2. I worked babysitting (50cents per hour) every weekend, when I got older I waitressed on the weekends. I loved the money but bought my own school books and sometimes shoes for my younger siblings.

3. We had hand-me-down clothes, and thought nothing of it. I never even owned a pair of jeans until I was out of HS. My dad didn't allow it. I had go-go boots though!

4.. I dated in high school, nothing serious. Started group dating like bowling and shows around 14 years old.

5. We danced, went for walks, youth organizations (like Young Life) had make-out parties in our basements, garage bands...
"G L O R I A!!!" HS football games and dances. My HS won the State Championship in basketball, but my dad wouldn't let me go to games because there were blacks on the team!!! 100 blacks out of 5000 students! We integrated my freshman year.

6. Nagging problem? My parents fought constantly so we tried to make ourselves invisible most of the time. There were 7 kids in my family, 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom - house. Never enough money. It was cool to our fathers to mess around on our mothers. I didn't have a friend whose dad didn't cheat on their mom. Sad, isn't it? What an escape to be able to go somewhere with our friends!
Rough life.

7. Teenagers today have so much more freedom than we had. Cars, More money, more clothes, more everything! Its because we as parents want them to have everything we never had. Whereas our parents figured if they did without, it wouldn't hurt us to do without.

Hope this helped. Don't know if all people my age went through this, but I did. Hope it helps

Good luck in school and thank your parents for the life you live.

Answer 5

1.Yes,and I graduated.It was a Vo-Tech,I majored in Commercial Art.It was cool,other than Math,we changed classes every semester,Cinema,Public Speaking,etc.Not much homework,
a few pages of Geometry.
2.Worked part time after school,about 20 hrs./week,that was the
Law.
3.Comfortable,like now,jeans,t-shirt,flannel shirt on top in the winter.Fashion doesn`t matter,altough I did wear bell-bottoms.
4.A few times,movies.
5.Art projects,had my own dark room,spent alot of time down there.
6.Vietnam
7.Apathy,no sense of the future.Whether you like it or not,some day there will be a future.Don`t waste it.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

19, 5"2, female.

Answer 8

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