2007-02-25 16:14:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
did they get the cane?
2007-02-25 16:32:16 · update #1
It was totally different than it is now. It was far more strict, and we were expected to learn and behave ourselves...... or else.
Not only did our parents and teachers discipline us, but all the neighbors did too. I was whupped with a wooden spoon by more than one lady in the neighborhood !
And it was far more innocent than it is now. I used to walk to school with friends or neighborhood kids when I was in the first
grade ( it was exactly a mile, one-way) and no one thought a thing about it - because nothing bad ever happened.
I hated school at the time, but I would give anything to go back to those days !! Everything was so much simpler and innocent back then. When I graduated from high school, there had only been 2 girls who had gotten pregnant in over 30 years !!
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2007-02-25 16:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by Kate 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, kids did get the cane. And for the slightest transgression too - talking, giggling, etc. Boys and girls were segregated. Free school milk. No computers of course - people who went to school in the 50s can all count without a calculator and are good spellers. Younger boys often went to school without shoes in the summertime, not because of poverty. Class sizes were bigger, sometimes up to 40. Kids were more respectful to teachers then.
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2007-02-26 06:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
schools relied solely on good old books and what the teacher taught. no gadgets, no computers, no internet. most anything taught was learned by rote. standards of school behavior were imposed under threat of corporal punishment. lessons were simpler and not quite as complicated as many are now. values were not as liberally interpreted as they are now, nor as liberally observed.
but then again, the rigors of daily life were far less complicated, too. family life and support could be counted on more reliably and more predictably to reinforce (at home) the civic role schools had in child upbringing.
but the good part was that schoolchildren had far more time to enjoy the simple joys of community life, family life and childhood. they had fewer and simpler homework than now, and none of the distractions that are now part of daily life.
2007-02-26 05:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by Tariq 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not, it was nearly exactly the same as it is today, and there's actually a large controversy around not updating teaching techniques with new technology.
The only difference I can think of is segregation. Of course, they also didn't have computers, but they made do.
2007-02-26 00:19:48 · answer #4 · answered by Jake S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
school in the 1950s are very old. School often has 4 floors or less
2007-02-26 00:25:29 · answer #5 · answered by DAT Q 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From all the stories my grandmother has told me. It was very strict, a lot of rules, no fun and everyone said the Lord's Prayer before class started.
2007-02-26 00:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by Kat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which school...where..what grade level--you can't say schools everywhere today are the same, can you? Although corporal punishment was allowed then, in some schools anyway, I don't think it was all that common.
2007-02-26 10:50:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
this question makes me miss my grandparents. I'm going to call them tommorow!
My grandparents told me the school was 1 big room and everyone learned the same thing pretty much and the smarter students helped the ones who needed it.
2007-02-26 00:18:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had the whole civil rights movement going on, was it strange more than likely.
2007-02-26 00:17:06 · answer #9 · answered by Phlow 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋