whats the difference between high schoool now and high school back then?

Answer 1

I went to school in the 70's and you could get away with just about anything then, you can't now! Instead of grades mailed to homes and posted on school websites, you got a paper "course book" that showed your "handwritten" grades that were easy to amend for parental viewing. I had brothers that cut classes every freaking day and didn't get caught for months. (I still hate them for that!) The tracking of student whereabouts was manual and therefore very, very flawed so a kid could literally cut classes for weeks on end before parents were even remotely alerted to it. When you wanted to cut the whole day, no biggie.... Your parents wouldn't even know about it until the "coursebook" (grades) came out once a quarter and of course it was handwritten so was equally easy to "amend". No such thing as "co-ed" gym classes. Girls had to wear these downright humiliating ice blue "gym suits" that had bloomer type elastic around the thighs to really accentuate your dimply fatness. Talk about gross, you have no idea. My husband's high school actually made all the freshman boys take swimming in the NUDE. Imagine that, the whole period, totally naked in the pool with a bunch of other zit-faced 14 year olds, freezing their gonads off in a cold pool on a Monday morning. Oh yeah, they also had to wear bathing caps at the same time. How's that for a visual? (suddenly those bloomers aren't looking too bad right about now) If you went to a large school you probably had to share your locker with 3, sometimes 4 students. There was no such thing as closed campus, you could come and go from the building as you pleased. Every school had a "nark" that posed as a student, but of course EVERYONE knew they were a cop. You had a "home room" teacher that was designed to be a mentor to you the whole 4 years. You visited them each day in between 2 & 3rd period for 10 minutes with about 40 other students and this mini-period was called "division". Your home room teacher was responsible for giving you daily "news" and for helping you pick your classes for the upcoming year. They gave you sound advice like, "I'm NOT letting you sign up for sewing honey, you'll be taking a typing class cause it will help you for the rest of your life" and they generally got to know you better than most of the other teachers. They remained a pain in your rump the entire 4 years. All in all, if I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't have changed a thing. I LOVED my years in high school and besides, all things are relative anyway. I turned out pretty darn good, and you know what? The advice to take the typing class has served me well all these years! Being able to type well led me to my first corporate job that required typing of course. Each job after that built experience one on top of the other, and eventually led up to what I'm doing today. I'm a corporate Training Manager and I LOVE what I do. My high school years played a integral part of who I am today (despite the goofy bloomers!) Good luck to you and ENJOY your time.

Answer 2

Well First Of High School Is NOTHING Like The Movies, Their Is A Lot More Of The Testing, And Hardley Any Communication Between The Teachers A Little More HomeWork More Friends You Meet More Class Options And Certain Requirements You Are Required To Juggle Projects And Home Work At The Same Time Your Teachers Don't Take As Much Consideration Into Whats Going On In your Life No Grade Discussing Oppertuinitys, Thats Left For You And Your Own Time No Late Work And More Make up Time When Missing School Responsibility Luch Way Different! Passing Time, You Certainly Don't Have As Much Time To Chat With Friends in The Hall As Expect Lots Of Reading But I Love Highschool Way More Then middle

Answer 3

Segregation. With the end of segregation came a more honest portrait of history. The inclusive environment allowed for questions to be raised and better answered were given. An example would be the "discovery" of America by Christopher Columbus. Nowadays, the textbooks acknowledge that he did not discover American since there were people already here. Also, most schools have a at least a small lesson on Black history or other minorities. In my parent's generation, that was not possible.

Answer 4

We had problems just as you. Our problems did not involve drugs, or not that I know of. We worried about skirts being above the knee, hair that was too high and if we would ever be able to wear slacks to school. The snobs were extreme. We could not finish school at times because of snobs and biology. Dissecting was the reason I quit high school. I have college degree now, but I could not cut open a dead worm let alone a frog.

Answer 5

School Now And Then

Answer 6

You actually have to pass a test showing that you learned something, as apposed to the past where you could pass w/o any education at all.

Good thing...

It shows in our doctors these days. Hopefully the newer generation will be a little more educated.

Answer 7

high school now--more advanced system of studying, updated curriculum, lesser morals being taught, more peer pressure due to decline of morals, more stress due to more subject choices and increased educational standards, and smarter because of the increased knowledge (more insane people too due to inability to handle stress caused by overload of information).

high school last time--opposite from above

Answer 8

high school is more bang-bang than it used to be

Answer 9

i dnt know....u have a point there.....