Yea, who doesn't have a keyboarding class? I'm pretty sure they're standard in the US. My friend almost failed because he used a non-home position based typing system despite being the fastest typer in the class.

An odd one: to never call Bill Cllinton "Bill Clinton" but "Slick Willy" instead. This was from my 6th grade math teacher. My parents were absolutely dumbfounded when I used that term at home lol.

Also that when you take drugs your brain is literally frying like egg.

And that the only way to not get a girl pregnant (and thus ruin your life and hers) is by not peeing in her vagina. Or so how I understood it anyway before i hit puberty.

lol, that is the strangest thing ive ever heard. Maybe he was trying to instill a love for physics, making you think that you could be good at sports if you learned it?

I went to public school and I was taught a bunch of bible songs in kindergarten that I can still recite by heart. We also had to say the Lord's Prayer every day which was broadcast over the PA following the national anthem, though in high school they cut the prayer to only once a week.

Naaaa. He knew that I am good at physics and was genuinely surprised that I didn't get the ball over the net in volleyball.

Generally sports in school was a very tragic chapter. Climbing the vertical rope was mentioned here -> tragedy. I blame the sports teachers because one thing that started as a similar tragedy - jumping over such gymnastics box on high feet - ended well after the teacher invested 10 min in securing me in case I fell. It somehow took the scariness out of that thing and I loved jumping over it since then.

This can have 2 very different meaning dependent on if you're British or not.

It was Eton

The 'Alphabet Song'.

It wasn't until years later it became clear you can put the letters in any damn order you please.

"I before E except after C or when sounded like A as in neighbor or weigh" was kind of wierd.

Jeez what kind of bible thumping schools did you guys go to? I know dom is "old" but damn the Lord's prayer over the PA?

I'm 34 and pledge and a prayer was standard over the PA in Catholic grade school in Nebraska.

Ok maybe these are all Catholic schools then. I went to public

My school was not Catholic or Christian, just a regular school, and it may have been illegal to teach Christianity (but the Lord's prayer was in elementary, junior high and high school so that was probably allowed), but kids could stand out in the hall and not say the prayer if they had a note from their parents and wanted to embarrass themselves in front of everyone else. I don't think there was an option to not do kindergarten Christian sing-along, which also included a go around to say what we were thankful to God for.

Seems like until Zylberberg et al. v.Sudbury Board of Education (1988), there was an Ontario regulation that provided for religious exercises in public schools, and the court ruled public school religious instruction to be contrary to the freedom of religion and conscience provided under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Had that in 7th grade. Used to tape a blank sheet of paper onto the keyboard and lay it over our hands so we couldn't look down as we typed. We'd do drills by typing a series of letters repeatedly.

Sex ed as a teenager was the class looking at pictures of STD infected dicks and pussies to scare us into using condoms.

Learned how to sew and knit in home ec class. Square dancing in gym class as a child. Pennsylvania is a weird place.

At least you knew about condoms. When we heard that some people may have been having sex at the age of 17 it was big news. I hate religion.

That damn near everything I liked to do could go on my permanent record.

Wow I totally forgot about that stupid little league pledge.

I was told cursive was important to learn!

in gym class we learned how to line dance to this song

That it is not what you know but rather who you know that is more important.

One of my jr high teachers told us that at least 3 different times
during that year and then name dropped a well known judge that
she would use as a reference.

Years later that same teacher got fired for trying to get giggity with
male students when she moved over to teaching high school. I am unsure if the reference helped her at that time in some capacity.

I doubt they were arresting females for this "crime" yet.

That weed was just as bad and crack and heroin.

HIV is small enough to go thru condoms.

What exactly is wrong with that rule?

LFS,

You should go check out a church on Sunday some time!

That's weird.

Do they talk about baseball there?

That all is totally super usefull.

And it reminds me how sexed worked in Soviet union. There was none in the school. Parents also didn' t really bother. But by the age 10~11 everyone knew how things work. Somehow bits and pieces were grasped together. My big source of knowledge in this area was big medical encyclipedia from my mom. It included articles on all possible Stds and on giving birth. I am to this day amazed on basically zero reaction from my parents when they saw me reading all that stuff at tender age of 8~9.

1.) my son who is 20 years old has never had a keyboarding class...just confirmed this. Public school FYI.

2.) Sentence spacing...I recently found out that not everyone uses a double space between sentences. I found out the hard way...directing a young fellow to fix his work. He showed me proof that single space was acceptable but I’m too old to change.

3.) In middle school my male English teacher said, and I remember this verbatim “It’s a good thing you’re smart because you really lost out in the looks department.” This was on the last day of middle school...nothing like instilling confidence for high school. Fat old guy, too.