When the suburbs sprouted, they usually ended up incorporating and forming their own school districts.
You didn’t bus unless it was absolutely necessary, because of the winter snow closures and the costs.
]]>My parents were the first generation in the area who could attend a free public high school, as schools in the area only went through 8th grade in my grandparents generation.
]]>They are making everything they can into a job, to be sure people “know their place” in the new world order.
]]>And folks wonder why I don’t teach anymore…
— Badtux the (Former) Teacher Penguin
]]>There was nothing “choreographed” or coordinated about them, and they went on a lot longer than was absolutely necessary, but no one minded. This wasn’t a show, it was a celebration.
I realize that things were different back then, but this demand for order makes graduation a job, not something you want to remember.
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