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Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the science Guy!
It's the 6th grade. The girls are taken to the gym for a presentation about menstruation. Us boys are put in a room with this cart to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Or some shit about shop class.
First grade, they piled all the classes together, because it's 1993 and we only have one laserdisc player, and we need to watch a video on pollution. Main topics were acid rain and smog and that shit has been with me for 30 years, I will never forget it.
In class it was always
- Shrek
- Shrek 2
- Remember the Titans
- Jurassic Park
- Any Rando Jim Carrey Movie
Although in grade 9 law class we got to watch Heat, Dirty Harry and My Cousin Vinny, that teacher was cool
You got to see real movies? All we ever got was, like, PBS Nova episodes or A&E documentaries. No worksheets; but I got to learn about Ray fuckin' Kroc years before they made a movie about him.
Oh yeah we had those too. I totally forgot about A&E, those tapes were around for sure. And a lot of stuff from the National Film Board, I think the schools in Canada got that stuff for free or something.
Butting into your conversation to leave a wee link for any film lovers scrolling by. The NFB's a public producer and distributor, and the catalogue's free for everyone.
You need a license to use it in class or have a public showing, but you're right - many schools have that already set up. Buying DVDs for the classroom will cost you, though.
Watching the teacher get irritated.
I still have one of those somewhere!
"Only 90s kids will get it"
As a kid, I enjoyed seeing teachers struggle with those.
Now as a parent, I got to see teachers struggle with a beamer, same joy!
Beauty and the Beast.
But it's Spanish class. So La bella y la bestia.
Señora Lopez has a hangover and she just ain't doin shit today.
I'm sure somebody had to watch that. Not me, but somebody.
Oh man, a friend and I were the AV crew for a while in high school in the late 90s. Basically we’d deliver these TV & VCR wheeled stands to the teachers needing them in the morning. If there wasn’t any need, we got to hang out in the equipment room instead of home room.
We got to use the elevators and even wield “the key ring” from time to time.
We had Monty python's life of Brian. The teacher forgot he already played it for our class once. Nobody mentioned that to him.
The teacher didn't forget
He did ask. But I think indeed it was a win-win situation
Beakman's World
Bill Nye
Reading Rainbow
Edit: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Mr Wizard, or Antiques Roadshow are also possible outcomes.
BILL NYE
Voyage of the Mimi
Wishbone! Ghostwriter And bill nye the science guy.
Add in The Roots for the 17th time this semester.
For critically-panned movies that are arguably good, I recommend a scroll through this thread: [Meme] Which movie was this for you?
It's interesting to see what everyone's opinions are. I've already downloaded a few of the suggestions out of curiosity.
Voyage of the Mimi
Late 90s Chicago, I don't recall this happening much, but I did have a social studies teacher in 7th grade that let kids take their lunch period in her classroom and the AV cart would usually be tuned in to the Maury Provich show.
My middle school was a stupid place that looked like a prison on the outside, but on the inside, the classrooms had no back walls and were separated by accordion dividers. Occasionally, they would open up the dividers and show the whole three-classroom block a video on three of those carts all chained to one VCR.
The one I remember was on a fun day where we all got to watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, which had just come out on video. They fast-forwarded through Napoleon's, "Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde!" being translated as, "Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!" in the subtitles, but we could all see it and we were all like 13, so it was pretty funny.
Here is the school. It still exists. Batchelor Middle School in Bloomington, Indiana. I hear the inside has been renovated and there are now actual walls.
And I'm not exaggerating when I said it looks like a prison. It's not the most comforting sight the first time you go.
My school’s bus, which was used only for sporting events and trips, was an actual prison bus. It still had restraint attachment points and the bars on the windows.
It was brilliant for psyching out the other football teams.
I went to a similar looking middle school, but each grade was in one giant room probably the size of a gym. No class had an actual wall unless it was on the edge. Probably 10-11 classes in each big room for the grade. The only dividers between classes were like rolling bulletin boards and maybe a metal cabinet or two. I couldn't imagine having to teach in those conditions because it always was pretty noisy.
I also remember the school's gym had a full locker room with showers but students weren't allowed to use the showers and none of the bathrooms in the school had stall doors. And the stalls were those short ones were your head was higher than the top of the wall. It was super weird.
I don't get the idea. Prison on the outside, anarchy on the inside. Who came up with that concept?
1970s build?
Windows are terrible at efficiency. Yes, even modern ones with three panes and filled with argon. A building with minimal windows is generally going to have better thermal efficiency than one with lots of them, and that started to be really important during the 1970s oil crisis. The result was a bunch of schools like this that look like prisons.
If you get some local mural artists to paint the concrete in bright, whimsical images, it fixes a lot.
Only problem is that the paint fades eventually, and if no one cares to redo it it'll end up looking like those sad old fading Soviet murals.
Looks like it might have been a county lockup at one point.
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