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Originally Posted by dreams
So true. Usually some mom would yell out the front door that so-and-so's mom was looking for them and it was time to go home or you were seen doing something and by the time you got home whatever you did or said was already known by your mom 
I remember walking barefoot everywhere, sharing the same coke, and drinking from hoses |
Exactly.
And Elementary School (we called it Grammar School,) each classroom had AT LEAST 35 kids (now they say that 25 are too many.) You sat in the same room all day with the same teacher who taught ALL the subjects. There was no gymnasium (the playground outside was the gymnasium), no cafeteria (you ate your brown bag lunch in the classroom), no auditorium, no “Social Promotions.” When you were promoted to the next grade level, there was no doubt that you EARNED it.
Teachers could discipline unruly kids. Students always showed teachers the utmost respect. Civility and manners were demanded at all times. You were corrected any time the word ain’t, a double negative, or other rules of proper grammar were broken. Bullying a classmate was NEVER tolerated.
It was like that through the 7th grade in our town. What a simple old-fashioned concept. But it worked. I love the way that worked.