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1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything?
2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?
3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)?
4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)?
5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it?
 
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything?

Took Home Ec :-) we made some god awful clothes i remember that but we also made pillows and i'll let you know that at nearly 40 yrs old, I still have my big cheeseburger pillow I made that year in class. :-)

mostly girls took home ec but some guys took it as an easy A elective. boy did they learn a lesson. LOL! i don't recall any girls taking Shop

2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?

don't remember any of that stuff.

3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)?

Junior High

4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)?

kinda a cross between nerd & popular i'd say. definitely started out more nerdy but grew into popular as high school approached i'd say. of course my whole class was kinda nerdy. our brains and good grades were top priority so we could get scholarships and get the heck out of dodge.

5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it?

we were poor so we got free school lunches. most everyone ate school lunches though where i grew up. whether you paid for it or not was the difference. i actually can't remember anyone bringing lunches now that i think about it. but then again, where i grew up we went to school to learn, didn't have "free" periods and definitely weren't allowed to leave the premises of school during the schoolday. my how things have changed. no wonder what comes out of our schools these days is so bad. LOL!!
 
Sarah and Buzz said:
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything?
2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?
3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)?
4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)?
5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it?
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1. I took both Home Ec and Shop in junior high, all 3 years. Half of the year was one, and half was the other. Everyone took both, regardless of gender. We made clothes (an apron) and a pillow, too, Cindy. I don't still have my pillow, although I remember in great detail what it looked like. I loved Shop and my parents still have the key-shaped key rack I made.
2. I had some great teachers with some great advice, but the one that really sticks with me is my track coach's mantra of "Finish strong". You should always save a little something for the end, so you can cross the finish line looking strong and feeling good instead of straggling across. It is still applicable, whether it's a race or a task or anything else life throws at you.
3. Junior high.
4. I don't know if I really had a "group", but I was definitely not in the popular clique. I didn't get picked on like some kids did, my friends and I just sort of did our own thing. If I had to classify, I guess "nerds" because, like Cindy, we prided ourselves on our good grades, great attendance, and general well-behavedness.
5. In elementary school, we had to bring our lunch K-2, then in 3rd we had the option of buying. I went home for lunch a couple times a week and brought lunch most other days. I don't remember what happened in junior high (it was a bad period for me!) but in high school, I bought lunch almost every day.
 
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything?
I took both. It was mandatory for all. Shop class had a lot more useful skills though - as my district *wouldn't* afford electric sewing machines, etc.

2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?
I never received any advice. My first day in HS homeroom, I was told by my teacher I was going to hell. Also had another hs teacher that wished America was a communist country. Unless, when one teacher told us to march our protest against our school and allowed us to leave class for it, counts.

3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)?
Middle school

4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)?
Depends on the year. In middle school the jocks/popular kids I was "allowed" to hang out with all got suspended for a stunt I wouldn't partake in. They didn't acknowledge me after that for the next 5 or 6 years. Outcasts were my friends most of my high school career. Most of them were nerds, some of them were "losers", and some of them were the top dogs (and grades ahead of me). My 9th grade buddies thought I was top dog when I could walk up to a car owning 11th grader and his buddies without hesitation. They thought I was particularly special when he came down from his pedestal and found me. (The 9th graders had their lockers in what can best be described as the fighting pit, the older kids hung out on the higher tier above).

5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it?
Neither. I didn't have lunch from about 5th grade on. Unless someone was kind enough to offer me their leftovers.
 
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything? Both, Shop in junior high & Home Ec in high school. Both genders in shop. No boys were in the Home Ec class.

2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?
I don't remember getting any good advise.

3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)? Junior High

4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)? Rebellious hippie group, we were the cool kids.

5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it? Bought it if I had enough money, if not I skipped it.
 
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything? Home ec in 7th grade manditory boys and girls. No shop. Boys and girls could take either class in H.S. as an elective course.

2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today? Not that I can remember. I graduated in 1982

3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)? we had both junior, middle and H.S.

4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)? I was a cheerleader for football and basketball. And baseball Mgr. for spring all 4 years

5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy? Depended on what they had. :mrgreen:
 
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything?
7th or 8th grade, we got to pick either HE or shop. Each class was about 99% the stereotypical gender. I had one friend (girl) who took shop (in a different school), and said the teasing was pretty relentless. I hated Home Ec, but had no interest in shop either, so I just stuck it out. The low point was when we learned how to use a MICROWAVE, I guess microwave cooking was going to be the wave of the future back then. We had microwave bacon (not the world's best way to cook it, it turns out), and microwave brownies. Now brownies are just about my favorite food, but I could barely even get these down, they just came out really really gross. Probably not a great pairing with bacon, either. :lol:

2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?
My Calc teacher senior year said to always take the highest level class you could get into (referring to college), never take an easier class because you weren't sure you really got things, or felt like you needed more practice to advance. Her class was probably one of the toughest I ever had, HS or college. All of us were 100% confused all year, because she only assigned the toughest homework (NO busywork homework, we only ever did the "challenge" questions), and forged ahead to the next chapter no matter what. The weird thing was every 2 weeks I would notice I totally understood the previous chapter we had done, even though I was always feeling lost on the current one (I was always good at math, so this was a previously unknown feeling for me, at least in math class). And although none of us felt like we knew what we were doing, that AP test was about the easiest test I ever took, all credit to her for pushing us so hard and somehow teaching us well, even though it didn't feel like that at the time.

It was a pretty amazing lesson, but I've found it hard to live in real life. I tend not to push myself as hard, and she's probably not out for hire to crack the whip. :lol:

3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)?
Junior high, aka The Prison. I went to a free-wheeling alternative school grades 5 & 6, which was heaven - the teachers actually liked us, and liked teaching - so junior high was a rude awakening. Went from being able to leave class if we needed to pit stop without asking permission, to needing a hall pass, bells ringing to announce class time, and a shocking yellow taped line down the halls so we would walk on the correct side of the hall.

4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)?
Orchestra geeks I guess, or maybe the smart but not-too-geeky group. I was with the punk crowd freshman year, but when my best friend (who had been my introduction to the punk world) moved away that sort of drifted away too.

5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it?
I think it was a mix, I don't really remember too well.
 
ok, after reading all these, I am DYING to know WHERE everyone grew up/went to school!!!! and if anyone wants to admit to which decade ;-) too that would be interesting..... I'm guessing the "both shop & home ec" crowd are younger than I am, but who knows, maybe it was a really hip place you all grew up

for the record, my schooling was in Northern Virginia (DC suburbs), in the 70s/80s
 
oh right, I think we had the Missouri discussion a while back, my grandmother grew up there, on a farm near Grant City (? I think)... there's another PZIer w/a MO connection, but I forget who....
 
East Central MN, graduated 2003. Am I the baby in PZI land? Because I do get forgetful and have aches and pains, etc. I'm really not that different nailbite_smile
 
Sarah and Buzz said:
1. Did you have to take Home Ec in school? What about Shop? Was it different for girls and boys, or did everyone take everything?
2. What was the best piece of advice you received from a teacher/coach? Is it still applicable to your life today?
3. Was it called "junior high" or "middle school" (or something else)?
4. What group were you part of in high school (nerds, popular, jocks, etc)?
5. Did you usually bring your lunch or buy it?
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1. We had both Home Ec and Shop, but it wasn't mandatory to take either one. I chose to take Home Ec because I wanted to learn how to cook. Instead, I learned how to take care of a flour baby (a bag of flour that we dressed up like a baby).

2. There isn't really one piece of advice that I received. It mainly just helped shape my work ethic. I went to school half days, then took college classes a couple of afternoons a week, and on the rest of the days, I worked. I had to learn to prioritize in order to get everything done.

3. When I was in 6th grade, we went to the 6th grade center. 7th and 8th grade were the junior high. Once I got into 7th grade, they added the 6th graders to the school and called it middle school.

4. I spent the most time with the "nerds". We weren't really nerdy. Just focused on doing well in school. But I had friends in all of the groups.

5. I usually bought my lunch. Sometimes through the actual lunch line, sometimes from the snack bar. But either way, the school got my money.

Central Texas in 2001.
 
Because I am particularly paranoid I thought I might point out that the high school one graduated from and or it's city [and maybe even the year] are frequently used as "security questions" for things like financial institutions. It's likely too that the city of of ones HS is the city one was born in - which is yet another frequent "security question." And by knowing ones graduation year it is very easy to guess year of birth which makes it easy to guess the first five [I think] of your social [with where you were born]. LOL while I'm on a roll too, "your favorite pet" or "first pet" are frequent "security questions too. *sigh* nailbite_smile

OK I'm shutting down the 'puter now going off and I'm going in the other room so "they" can't see me through my web cam. ;-) LOL
 
Gator makes a good point about security, but they aren't MY security questions, nor did I grow up in the town in which I was born, so I feel relatively safe answering. ;-)

I grew up and attended school K-12 in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and I graduated HS in 1993 (ouch!).

Joanna: I think the PZIer with the MO connection was Ele, wasn't it?
 
Wow, I hadn't thought about the security angle, ewwww. Scary. I have had this site turn up before in searches, when I searched for a string of cat health issues (non-diabetes related) I've had it turn up old posts, or stuff people had in their profiles.

Ok, everybody go DELETE your dates & locations, SORRY!!!!!!!!!! nailbite_smile
 
I always code my security questions.

Lets start with an easy one: Your mothers maiden name.
I can hardly spell moms real maiden name. So I misspelled it to suit my needs, and I throw in numbers to replace some letters. The answer is never the same. Sometimes it is based on the decade we're in (I will change it just because I know my "old" accounts are no longer used). For a while it was based on the fact that I had finally figured out the true spelling and re-modified it again to make it easier for my new knowledge.

This does get tricky with some questions: Your first car.
The first thing I ever drove was a harley at age 3. The first time I spun out in the driveway I was 5, and the car has only ever been referred to with a nickname. My first ownership of a gas powered vehicle was a minibike which I named at age 8. The first car I owned sat in the driveway for 9 months (I didn't have my license yet), and it was murdered by me in a fraction of that time. So what exactly is my answer? Is it even listed above?! You have to base it on the seriousness of what I'm registering for and the mood I'm in. I don't even know my answer sometimes, because sometimes I use other peoples vehicles for really needy security things (and no - it is not always their first car). If you're really proud of your first car - or maybe still own your first car (and this seriously applies to the "your first pet's name" question) - you're going to talk about it. Evil doers know this.

My favorites are the questions you can get really witty about: Where were you born?
A hospital. Down the road. Earth. The United States of America. Boringville. North America. Insanity. In a hospital bed. (and my new favorite thanks to my uncle): The potato shed. And my own personal answers aren't even in this list ;)

The reason why it is so easy to get into peoples accounts is because it is easy. These security questions are even more of a problem than a help. Don't be so "serious" with your security, and suddenly it's not so easy to take your identity away from you.

Well now I have to figure out my FDMB password. I have a feeling with the "password" thing thrown around so much I'm going to get logged out.
 
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