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Re: This brought back memories (Reply to this comment)
by AinsleyJo
We certainly lived in relatively-carefree times back then when it came to school. This is what I would want for today's kids to experience more of!!!
Peace!
AJ :o)
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Apr 13 '04
3:22 pm PDT
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This brought back memories (Reply to this comment)
by bobbo428
this brought back memories of my own grade school days--good job!
Bobbo
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Sep 16 '03
1:46 pm PDT
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Re: Interesting read... (Reply to this comment)
by AinsleyJo
I learned later through watching history programs about those movies shown in class, but I never went through them personally.
When I was in second grade, Mrs. Whiteman talked about Nikita Kruchev but not in a really scary way.
She told us that Russia had a leader who wasn't fit to be a leader--that he even threw a temper tantrum at a meeting and banged his shoe on the table.
She showed us a picture of him, and the class thought it was pretty funny imagining an old man like that throwing a temper tantrum!
She told us that some parts of Russia were so poor that several people had to share one egg--and she left us with the impression that it was all Kruchev's fault.
But we didn't get into the really scary stuff.
I learned more about fallout on the TV--and from touring a new home that had a fallout shelter.
The fallout shelter looked like it would be fun to have, and I asked my dad when WE were going to build one--and he told me that we weren't.
By then (third or fourth grade), I knew that it might be dangerous to be without one--that you might go to sleep one night and wake up dead the next day--as well as simply thinking that it would also make a fun underground playhouse when not in use.
Daddy me that the Russians might have missiles, but we had them, too, and that, if the Russians set off theirs, we would set off ours.
He said that they weren't dumb, so they would be keeping their missiles to themselves.
That answer satisfied me, and I didn't ask about building a fallout shelter again.
It really IS strange how kids in some schools (obviously, your own) were taught that they would be safe from nuclear fallout simply by getting under their desks or hiding in a ditch.
I still think that one of those fallout shelters would have made one cool playhouse!!!
Hugs!
AJ :o)
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Sep 13 '03
7:41 pm PDT
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Interesting read... (Reply to this comment)
by Don_Krider
as always, AJ.
Interesting comparison of September 11 to the almost fateful showdown during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 --- I started school the following year, but they (teachers and the educational films in school) drilled us to duck under our desks in a nuclear attack or lay flat in a dicth by the road if we were outside when the attack came. What a strange world we lived in as kids, eh?
Don :)
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Sep 13 '03
7:19 pm PDT
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More School Daze!!! (Reply to this comment)
by AinsleyJo
Because I wanted it to be posted on September 11 and hadn't had time to write it before late on that day, there were school experiences I'd meant to include in it that I didn't have the time to do.
And, of course, there are school experiences that I will be writing about in the future (both here and other places) as well as those scattered around that are already written.
Anyway, for what I wrote, I probably included enough.
But I plan on using this comment section to share links to other accounts of those little golden rule days as I find the time/write them, so--if this would interest you--check back here from time to time.
Hugs!
AJ :o)
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Sep 13 '03
10:20 am PDT
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