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PhoneBoothLynn88@reddit

My high school had a designated smoking area.

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Top_Condition_6390@reddit

We had vending machines and a Starbucks coffee machine in our smoking area. They closed it in 2022.

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Amazing_Variety5684@reddit

Our coach making us do line touches at full skate until we puked. Then we had to clean the ice

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KittiesRule1968@reddit

Same here. I played 9th-12th grade. Graduated in 86.

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KittiesRule1968@reddit

I was a good 50lbs heavier than the second biggest kid in the high school league. I graduated a fit 225

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

We had to do them until we couldn't stand but never got to the puking part.

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Cak3Wa1k@reddit

My school had "slave day" where the Senior class was allowed to sell Freshmen to other students and they were expected to do their owners' bidding.

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Extra-Astronomer4698@reddit

We had slave day, but the slaves were volunteers. I "bought" a couple friends, and we had an absolute blast.

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floofienewfie@reddit

I also wasn’t given a choice as one of the freshman “slaves” and was the last and unpurchased one.

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floofienewfie@reddit

We had that. Catholic school, 1969-70.

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We had something similar to this "initiation" where they would make us do silly things or torture us by painting us whatever they could come up with. By the time I was a Senior that "tradition" was gone, so it ended later in the 80s.

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SDBeerGuy@reddit

Kids in the parking lot had gun racks in the back window of their truck. I cannot definitively say I also remember seeing guns in the gun racks, but I feel like I did.

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Ok-Razzmatazz-7593@reddit

In 2007 I did see a student's truck parked at the school with gun racks on the back window with a shotgun. That probably doesn't happen now

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NoDog9790@reddit

After little league wins, the whole team would pile into the back of the coaches truck and ride through town to McDonald’s. The McDonald’s also had this merry go round shaped like a hamburger. We would spin it so fast and not let anyone off. Typically, someone would throw up their milkshake.

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Ian-Not_on_Olive@reddit

In the 80s, my HS had a students smoking section. 10th grade and above only. Only. Ha!

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Aromatic-Sense-2388@reddit

2nd that

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Catrina_woman@reddit

Our driver's ed class showed us how to hot wire a car in case we "lost our keys" as well as how to open the car door with a hanger.

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Mundane_Professor596@reddit

My driver’s ed teacher was a cop. He would take us on stakeouts and weirdly drive by Joey Buttofuoco’s house

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YogurtclosetVast3118@reddit

lol this happened at my high school too.. and I went to a nun school. The driver's ed teacher was not affiliated with the school, I wish I had a camera, him showing us how to hot wire (we were all in our uniforms and there were nuns walking around in the background, trying to figure out what was going on)

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PrestigiousAd2251@reddit

In high school - jello wrestling contests. School event with refs and everything.

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Squibit314@reddit

Did they do donkey basketball at your school too?

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whuaminow@reddit

We had donkey basketball! The son of one of our social studies teachers was on the student team one year (we did students vs teachers) he got kicked HARD in the jewels by one of the cute little donkeys. The next year when he played again he made himself a delightfully over sized protection cup, bound externally with copious amounts of over done duct tape. He was a funny guy.

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ZestycloseAd5918@reddit

What the fuck is donkey basketball?

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Working_Estate_3695@reddit

It’s legitimized animal cruelty. I went to a game in the early 1970s and was so upset and repulsed by the idea that adults thought it was OK to do and even entertaining. Some really repugnant shit.

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2cairparavel@reddit

At our school, students played the teachers. A company brought in donkeys. It was set up like regular basketball except every player had to ride a donkey, so no dribbling. You were trying to get the ball in the hoop but also be in a donkey. It was a fundraiser.

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ZestycloseAd5918@reddit

Didn’t the donkeys fuck up the gym floor and shit everywhere?

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whuaminow@reddit

Yes, they had the court cleanup down to a science at the quarter breaks. A team with sawdust and scoopers would clean up the court in a minute or two. The donkeys were small and light enough that they didn't dig into the finished court surfaces.

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BradleyFerdBerfel@reddit

"........... but also be in a donkey." Wait, what? That is definitely not how it worked at my school.

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2cairparavel@reddit

Oops. When I use my phone, I'm always missing the o for the i.

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whuaminow@reddit

A company that worked with schools and other organizations to do fundraising would supply a trailer load of small donkeys, like 20 or 30 of them. The school would promote the event and provide the venue, admission was 10 or 12 dollars. There were two teams, in our school it was students vs teachers, and each would field a basketball team. The teams get on the little donkeys, which are quite stubborn and don't always like to be directed on where to go, and try to play basketball. The donkeys were small enough that most people's feet were just a few inches off the floor, so not a long way to fall, and there were many falls, collisions and wayward donkeys doing their own thing. Chaos on a school basketball court.

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EntertainmentOwn6907@reddit

We had donkey basketball! We also had a hypnotist that came every year and hypnotized students.

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Apprehensive_Put4319@reddit

Our Latin class held a Roman feast complete with slave auction. The slave was usually an underclassman purchased by a Senior and they literally paid money to the Latin club or whatever for the person to carry your books and other fun stuff for one day.

In one of the luckiest breaks of my life - my “slave” was one of the hottest girls in school who happened to have a shine for me and that turned into quite the 6 month tryst to end my senior year and “happy” ending the night before I left for college.

Ahhhh…the 80s!

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honeybeegeneric@reddit

Shine, lol. You im Louisiana? Maybe Texas?

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Few-Might2630@reddit

We had a smoker’s table in the cafeteria

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mattdb110@reddit

We didn't go that far but, did have an outdoor covered smoking area complet with ass trays. (1974)

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BigAway3098@reddit

Ass tray?

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mattdb110@reddit

Ash tray but, if I remember correctly there wasn't any shortage of the other either.🤣🤣🤣

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Chance-Equivalent501@reddit

The Shellback equator crossing ceremony in the Navy. That ancient hazing tradition was killed by Congress when someone complained. Being deemed a "shellback" was on DD 214s for both officers and enlisted.

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Sulli_in_NC@reddit

My dad’s cruise book shows him getting lit up in a working electric chair on the flight deck as part his shellback.

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floofienewfie@reddit

There was also a blue nose ceremony for crossing the Arctic Circle.

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Sulli_in_NC@reddit

I remember hearing about that one. They never made it up that far.

They did most of their time in the Med, between China/Taiwan, and back around South Africa.

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Chance-Equivalent501@reddit

We had a pigs head that marinated in bilge water. That's enough..

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Sulli_in_NC@reddit

LOL … you def won’t forget that one!

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JoeInMD@reddit

Wait, what? When did shellback go away? I still carry me card in my wallet

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mattdb110@reddit

I went through just about everything they had. Navy 1975-1995. Small boys, destroyers and cruisers.

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Sad-Macaroon9067@reddit

Bonfire during Homecoming week.

Seniors would get the day off to drive around and collect anything that would burn, and pile it into a massively unstable structure. Trimmed branches, furniture, literal trash....anything that would burn. Of course, they also soaked it all with accelerant. And don't forget an effigy of the opposing team's mascot perched on top.

That night, the entire town (really!) would gather around to have a pep rally while watching it burn...and inhaling all the toxic fumes from blazing gasoline-soaked trash. Little kids loved seeing how close they could get and/or throwing more trash into the conflagration.

At the end of the night, the fire department would spray it down, but it smoldered for days. Good times.

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Guilty_Character8566@reddit

Cig machines in places like college dorms.

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floofienewfie@reddit

Beer machines in dorms on base.

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Southernms@reddit

Designated smoking areas at school.

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Catrina_woman@reddit

Smoking quad at our school

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Southernms@reddit

Yup!🚬

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JudgeAffectionate841@reddit

My high school had these when I went there.

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Southernms@reddit

Right! All the high schools did in my time mid to late 80s.

Here is a fun piece of nostalgia!

This song was actually written in 1973 and covered by Mötley Crüe in ‘85. I was quite confused at first because smoking was rampant in all schools, but the original writer said it was based on smoking in the bathroom at a movie theatre.🎭

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Quirky_Ball_3519@reddit

We had that at my high school in the 90s. You could go outside the front gate or to the soccer field.

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Southernms@reddit

This is actually on school property and was paved and had a huge awning to cover everyone. Nobody had to leave the property. The doors were right off the corridor where the classrooms were.

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itsactuallynot@reddit

Nobody I work with believes me that this was a thing in my lifetime.

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Southernms@reddit

Good gosh!🙄

Maybe replace the words smoke cigarettes with vaping. I think they might understand that. 🤣

Tell them we had designated smoking rooms at major international airports here in the US as well. That might blow there minds!

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s smoking room looked like the club at midnight all day long.

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AvailableAd6071@reddit

With the occasional blunt- sometimes bought from that one teacher.

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FeedbackExisting4762@reddit

And it was always the Creative Writing teacher.

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moonbeam127@reddit

Theater teacher

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alwayssearching117@reddit

Ours was the art teacher.

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Southernms@reddit

🤣

I was talking ciggies, but yeah!

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hairballcouture@reddit

We got smoke breaks at my school.

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

We had an open campus in high school, meaning we could leave campus for lunch.

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ZestycloseAd5918@reddit

Seniors had this until during summer school one year a girl got hit by the light rail train that ran in front of the school.

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

Yikes! That’s scary.

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ZestycloseAd5918@reddit

No, she was a dumbass. Nothing scary about it.

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Ok_Building_8193@reddit

Totally normal.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

We still have these. A lot of kids will go past our work building to go to a coffee shop, KFC and or McD's at lunch time.

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DainasaurusRex@reddit

Our high school in town (the one I went to and so did my kids) still has open campus for the upper classes.

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NicePatience43@reddit

I teach in a rural area and this actually still happens, I've been shocked but they said there is no way we could feed everyone every day since our kitchen cooks for the whole k-12 district, so open campus allows our staff a pretty light duty at lunch.

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Prestigious_Bat7322@reddit

Smoking room for high school students.

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DiHard_ChistmasMovie@reddit

We couldn't smoke on school property at all. So everyone walked across the street and stood on the grass easment between the street and a church parking lot to smoke. We all referred to it as Marlboro Country.

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lsuillini@reddit

We had a circle painted on the asphalt outside the side door where smoking was allowed. You had to really want to smoke when it was raining.

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RelationshipBig6115@reddit

The night before Halloween…TPing and egging

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dohvb1@reddit

Good old Devil's Night. Was surprised when very few people outside of Michigan had heard of this "holiday"

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JudgeAffectionate841@reddit

An Army officer I knew told me that when he was stationed in Korea in the 1970's, his unit used to have a weekly boxing match. They pitted the alcoholics against the drug addicts.

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Glittering-Data-8801@reddit

Back in the 70's at Ft Gordon, we used to have Friday night "smokers", boxing matches that the 1SG forced you into. I lost my first 2 matches and a draw on my 3rd match. I hated it and I can honestly say I beat the hell out of the opponent's hand with my face.

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Prestigious_Bat7322@reddit

Go meth heads!

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SlowEmphasis3676@reddit

In my school competitive rifle shooting was a letter sport. Don’t imagine that’s true today.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

There are a lot of HS trap shooting leagues around my area. All the shooting happens after school hours so you are still not allowed to have your shotgun on school grounds yet the uniforms and the clays are bought by the school.

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SlowEmphasis3676@reddit

That is cool.

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StarvingArtist303@reddit

My HS had archery. Can’t imagine any school would give a bunch of kids any kind of weapons now

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RaRecall133331@reddit

Archery is still very much a thing at elementary, middle, and high school. In fact the national tournament is coming up in May.

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StarvingArtist303@reddit

Archery was my favorite. Much better than square dancing or dodge ball! 😆

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strugglinfool@reddit

We didn't, but my 7th grade daughter just completed her first year of competitive archery for her middle school..

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ThrowRA--scootscooti@reddit

Nope. It’s still alive and kicking in KS!

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SlowEmphasis3676@reddit

That’s great!

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lwaxanawayoflife@reddit

My local high school has a trap shooting team today. We also have an archery team. I am in the Midwest. I don’t know much about it because I don’t have kids.

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SlowEmphasis3676@reddit

That’s cool.

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CollegeNW@reddit

I grew up seeing trucks in the high school parking lot with shot guns racked on back window because it was normal to go hunting after school / wknds.

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FromMyTARDIS@reddit

My Uncle he was born in the 30s. He once told me a story how it was Halloween and that morning he went duck hunting. So he went to school in his outfit with his actually hunting gun. And it was totally fine.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

I did that in the late 80's. School didn't care that it was in your automobile just couldn't bring it into the school. Showed up with camo on my face for first class.

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

Where I grew up, in 90’s we would have our hunting rifles in the truck ready to go out after class.

We also always had opening day off of school. Like a school holiday.

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mistlet0ad@reddit

One fall, my dad shot a deer in the field while I was waiting for the bus. I missed the bus, so he drove me to school after he'd gutted the deer. My teacher let him come in and wash off in our art sink. He had blood half way up both arms. This was mid 80's. I was in elementary school at the time.

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93195@reddit

I think that still would be okay in some places. In Alaska, they still take 6th graders to the gun range as a school field trip for a hunting safety course.

Can you imagine handing a class full of 6th graders guns in the lower 48?

Alaska is still a different place.

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scarlettbankergirl@reddit

Making ashtrays for our dads for presents

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

beer can lamp.

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alienheron@reddit

Or gun racks in wood shop

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Duke-of-Glenmont@reddit

Senior campout at the end of the school year. It was on the land the school owned. Booze, weed, cigarettes and whorish behavior

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Macha_Grey@reddit

Hey man, I object to the whorish behavior...that was my number 1 pastime in highschool!!! (90s)

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Duke-of-Glenmont@reddit

Damn, I wish I would have known you then. I really appreciated whorish behavior. So much so, that I encouraged and accepted it.

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Macha_Grey@reddit

My Montana HS was small, but if you went to college in Montana in the 90s...we could have met. I was an equal opportunity slut. I was just there for the Os!

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JudgeAffectionate841@reddit

Our cross-country coach used to have the entire team over to his house for a huge party at the end of the season. Definitely wouldn't be doing that nowadays.

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EntertainmentOwn6907@reddit

It still happens in some schools. My kids attended a Catholic school in the Midwest and they’ve had dinner at the basketball and track coaches house. The cross country team goes camping with the coaches every summer. Parents are welcome.

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Apprehensive-Wear205@reddit

As seniors in high school. In the morning, we would load up in the backs of trucks the last few days of school and blast everyone standing outside around the high and middle schools with super soakers.

The end of the last day dozens of HS kids would stand at the first intersection from the school and spray all the buses with super soakers.

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CashComprehensive423@reddit

Smoking area in the middle of campus.

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RuckusVell04@reddit

The smoking 'area' in HS was the train tracks next to the school. Not school property, ha.

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TheHandofDoge@reddit

My junior high had a “smoke pit” - grades 8-10, essentially ages 13-15!

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CashComprehensive423@reddit

Wow. Ours was high school. I got detention where I had to pick up cigarette butts from there and the track.

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commandbasketball@reddit

My kids still don't believe that was a thing

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Murdy2020@reddit

Prank Calls, thanks to universal caller ID.

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BraveLittleFrog@reddit

Bun Run during the first snow at my old college. Bunch of brave guys with boots, and nothing else, did a lap around our dorm. They tore the old dorm down, too.

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HotLava00@reddit

I'm curious.... McDavid Hall?

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BraveLittleFrog@reddit

lol. Must be a tradition in many colleges. This was Colorado State.

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Traditional-Cry-3857@reddit

I grew up in Fort Collins and I remember this.

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HotLava00@reddit

Haha - I wondered!

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scarlettbankergirl@reddit

We had panty raids.

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Secret_Purple7282@reddit

My high school had a "male beauty pageant" every year. No holds barred more comic than drag show. It was the highlight of the year. All funds raised went to a local children's charity.

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Traditional-Cry-3857@reddit

Mine did too! I had totally forgotten about it. There were some incredibly inappropriate skits that I am now remembering.

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sysaphiswaits@reddit

College near me still has one.

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LowCommunication9517@reddit

Charging admission to watch majorette tryouts as a band fundraiser.

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k_m_worker@reddit

Ewwww…. Glad thats no longer a thing!

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PeaceLoveHippieness@reddit

Our French teacher took us to wineries, we sampled, then drive home from said wineries. Wild to think about now!

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timwtingle@reddit

If no one knew about it and someone started religion today.

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DieHardAmerican95@reddit

My dad is a baby boomer. I don’t know if I would call it a tradition, but when he was a kid he walked across a few farm fields to get to and from school. He and his buddy would take their shotguns to school and keep them in their lockers, so they could hunt pheasants in the fields on their way back home. No one considered it a big deal.

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ravenx99@reddit

I had classmates that kept shotguns in the window rack of their trucks for the same. Today, even if you didn't get in trouble for having guns on school property, I don't think they'd go a day without being stolen.

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DieHardAmerican95@reddit

I knew guys who had them in window racks too, especially during deer season. That was a few decades back, though.

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PepeHlessi@reddit

The rule when I was in high school was if you brought a gun to school, it had to stay in the Principal's office until the end of the day. I remember during deer season seeing several long guns lined up against the wall in his office.

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_ItsTheLittleThings_@reddit

In college, our grades were posted on a bulletin board outside of the classroom…by social security number, not by name! That was so we’d have a little “anonymity.”

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whuaminow@reddit

Same, our student ID number was our SSN. I still have a couple of my old IDs from college with my social printed on them.

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MoonyDMakii-Doo@reddit

Seriously 😐

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_ItsTheLittleThings_@reddit

Yes, seriously.

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dirtygreysocks@reddit

We could smoke anywhere on school grounds as long as we were outside. Smoked between every class. Smoked outside during lunch.

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whuaminow@reddit

We had a smoker's corner in MIDDLE SCHOOL! They made those kids leave the grounds to smoke after school, so they chose one right across from the school property on the bus route exiting the pickup area. The last thing everyone saw for the school day as they left were a bunch of 11 to 14 year olds (plus the older kids that had been held back, sometimes multiple years) flipping everyone off while smoking like a chimney. There were always between 15 and 30 kids out there daily.

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Science_Edjumacation@reddit

Yeah, our junior high assistant principal would get on the morning announcements in his angry-disappointed voice. He'd tell us to smoke at the other end of the parking lot after lunch, not by the cafeteria dumpsters. I guess our lunch period was sometimes a literal dumpster fire. Can you imagine telling 13 yr olds where to smoke during the school day in 2026?

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CT_Reddit73@reddit

Sitting atop disk harrows while my great include plowed his fields. For those that don’t know, disk harries are rows of sharp iron disks that plow and turn soil. He’d have us kids sit atop their frame, which would add weight and make the plows til deeper into the earth. It was always such a treat for us kids.

FUN FACT: Disk harrows were not made for anyone to ride on.

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whuaminow@reddit

I remember my parents having an argument about if I was old enough at 12 to drive the tractor with a disk and drag setup to the fields we had about a mile up the state highway from our farm. For the first few years my mom would only let me cross the roads with the tractor, not drive on them. She won out, and I started highway driving that whole rig the next year.

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freebird37179@reddit

I have ridden miles on a 2 bottom Ferguson plow pulled by dad'a D-15 Allis-Chalmers. Our disc was a drag along that didn't have anywhere to sit, we'd just disc the ground like 8 times 🤣

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CT_Reddit73@reddit

Good stuff. I’m glad we survived it all.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

Yikes!

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Swimming-Pride5012@reddit

I took a sword to school on the bus in 7th or 8th grade. We had to do a stand up in front of the class presentation and we were supposed to have props to demonstrate. My presentation was about the parts of a sword.

We didn't have Resource Officers in my day... LOL.

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whuaminow@reddit

I took a bow and arrows in for show and tell as a first grader. The teacher let me string it up, but cut me off before I could do any test firing into the wooden closet door where she kept her coat and supplies.

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TopRevenue2@reddit

8 year old kids would just ride around on their bikes without supervision not even a Life360 phone tracker. And then didn't even have helmets. No bike lanes - they were just out in the street. Often their parents made them go out.

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

I don't care what you do ..go play marbles in the freeway..just get outside!!

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Global_Friend5300@reddit

When I got on my mother’s nerves, she’d tell me to go play in traffic. 🙄

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Macha_Grey@reddit

Mine was go fly a kite in traffic. Oh God, and the 'I'll give you something to cry about'

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ItBeMe_For_Real@reddit

Oh, come on, you make them sound like neglectful parents. But they told us to be home when the streetlights came on.

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AvailableAd6071@reddit

And sometimes they noticed if we weren't

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chamrockblarneystone@reddit

It’s 10 O’clock….

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Dexy1017@reddit

..do you know where your children are?

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Garfield61978@reddit

My ass better have been home as street lights were on by then 😂

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ScarInternational161@reddit

And if they didn't there was always a public service announcement on at 10 pm asking them if they knew where we were.

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in-a-microbus@reddit

I legit think part of the issue is how much car traffic has picked up in the last 40 years. More distracted divers. No sidewalks. No "shortcuts through the forest" (which admittedly was a 2 acre patch of trees).

I think it's too dangerous too let anyone of any age ride bikes anymore

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WaterwingsDavid@reddit

I remember this.

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TheGreatLabMonkey@reddit

I mean....we're training our 8.5 yo to be more independent and letting them bike alone occasionally (daycare to home, home to school). But only after having ridden along letting them take the lead and demonstrating they are able to follow the rules of the road and safely cross streets.

But we live in a bike-heavy society and they're used every day for transport. There are bike lanes but they're usually on the road unless it's a main through-line.

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Low-Goat-4659@reddit

That must be wonderful. I live in a small town and parents very seldom let their kids out in public unsupervised. It’s the fear of them getting snatched or shot in crossfire.

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defsentenz@reddit

Oh, how my friends and I cherished that freedom. Kids today basically live in a police state.

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SpiritualMuffin2623@reddit

The "party hardy, rock and roll" chant pops into mind. I recited it once for my significant other and he didn't know what I was talking about. He's a millennial though.

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Ivotedforher@reddit

Do the kids still do the chant for Mony Mony?

Do the kids even know about Mony Mony?

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Macha_Grey@reddit

Every basketball game our band would play Mony Mony and the Tequila song. I was a cheerleader and loved it.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I applied for a job as a wedding DJ in the 1990s.

The old hands at the company warned me never to play "Mony Mony" because the young people, especially if already drunk, would break into chants like "Get drunk! Get fucked!" at a certain bridge in the song. Grandma would be (rightfully) offended, and the DJ would get blamed.

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Ivotedforher@reddit

That must not have been the DJ company my high school hired then.

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djpurity666@reddit

Chicken pox parties?

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

I don’t know why people don’t still do that

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skatoulaki@reddit

Because there's a vaccine now and because people actually can die from chicken pox, so why risk it?

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metallikitty818@reddit

My special needs brother almost died from chicken pox. He was in the hospital for three weeks.

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

Adults can for sure.

Kids not so much.

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skatoulaki@reddit

Yes, but why risk kids passing it on to the adults in their lives? There's a vaccine for it...so it's not worth the risk. Not to mention, having chicken pox as a kid means that someday you'll probably have shingles as an adult.

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JaninthePan@reddit

Why? Why? Well lemme tell you. My mom thought I should visit my friend with chicken pox. I got them and spent some quality time in a tub with Calamine Lotion and was otherwise miserable for a few days. But that’s the end of it, right? Oh no.. the virus remains in your body for life and that miserable sucker will pop the hell up to make you the most miserable you’ve ever been. It’s called Shingles and it’s an infection of your nerves by the virus. You break out in a horror blistery rash and your nerves ZAP you like a cattle prod every 10 min or so. It sucks on toast. I’ve gotten in 3 times, the latest on my face and almost in my eye, which leads to blindness. No thank you on the pox parties. Get your kids vaccinated instead.

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djpurity666@reddit

Maybe bc there's a vaccine now

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StarvingArtist303@reddit

Some kids get horribly sick for weeks. And a few even need hospitalization. Why would you do that to a kid when there’s a vaccine to prevent it?

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thisgirlnamedbree@reddit

Not bizarre, but in grade school, we had Halloween parties and you could dress up as anything. I was a gypsy one year, and during the costume parade, my mom told me to show off my shoulders, which I did. This was third grade. One of my classmates dressed up as a hitman. He carried a fake gun in a violin case.

Today, most schools celebrate Halloween by having kids and staff dress up as non-scary, non-problematic storybook or movie characters. The school I work at does this.

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Suspicious-Price5810@reddit

My BFF and I were just discussing this exact thing. Her kid wanted to be a surgeon for Halloween. She thought it was hilarious because when she was the same age, (11) her costume was Olivia Newton John and she was wearing a skimpy leotard while her brother was a "bum". We were laughing because we could remember the costumes from elementary school. "remember so and so was a hooker?!" "Dude! And the ginger kid was Buckwheat?!" And who could forget the ever traditional pregnant 8 year old?" "Dude. Remember 4th grade? I was a slutty maid complete with fishnet stockings " It's really shocking that all of this was just acceptable and nobody considered it to be in bad taste. The 70's and 80's were wild.

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_ArsenioBillingham_@reddit

7th/8th grade in gym for swimming the gym teachers would dismiss the girls and then the boys swam completely nude for the last ten minutes under supervision of the gym teachers

Pretty horrifying in retrospect

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theworldizyourclam@reddit

Pardon?

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_Anon_E_Moose@reddit

THE BOYS SWAM COMPLETELY NUDE

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JaninthePan@reddit

AND THE GYM COACHES WATCHED

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Bailey6486@reddit

That's definitely wild by current standards / social mores.

https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-origins-of-nude-swimming-in.html

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_ArsenioBillingham_@reddit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfcgXdrMbM&ra=m

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ElGuaco@reddit

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Wuuut

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

We had driver's Ed in a Plymouth Fury that was a former state trooper squad car. The speed limit, at the time, was 55 mph. If we barely touched the gas in that fury, we were doing 85 mph. None of the police officers cared. I do believe our instructor was scared out of their mind most of the time.

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Dragonfly_Peace@reddit

School I taught at had ‘Slave for a day’. Kids bid and won a slave (another student who signed up for it). Gross af

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muy-feliz@reddit

Came here to say “senior slave” auction

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ButterscotchSad3796@reddit

We had “keg day” when I was in high school. Kids drove to school with a keg in the trunk. It was during winter before the holiday break, so the kegs stayed cold. We cracked them open at lunch. Teachers and administrators knew, but turned a blind eye. We were all hammered for the last few classes of the day. We drove home after school.

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WesleyTallie@reddit

Circumcision.

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ravenx99@reddit

That's still a thing.

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MikelarlHaxton@reddit

We literally had smoking pavilions on campus

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ravenx99@reddit

The courtyard of the cafeteria was a smoking area, but you had to have a parental form on file.

But yeah, smoking allowed in high school? Not today.

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Inkdman73@reddit

For Valentines Day you were able to buy a fake rose in different colors (each meaning something different) and they would be delivered to the student w a note attached- which some popular kids got so many they had to use a bag to carry em while others got none- I would get some but they were fake ones- a joke to make me feel bad- sad seeing kids w none looking all upset- horrible thing to do

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

Yeah we had that, too.

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

Yeah we had that, too.

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palmveach1972@reddit

We had them but they were lollipops. Lol

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Dexy1017@reddit

We had those, but were real flowers - carnations though, not roses.

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Inkdman73@reddit

They had started w real carnations but switched over to roses

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Camaschrist@reddit

I hope schools are more cognizant of how these fund raisers can cause hurt feelings.

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jhhtx@reddit

When I was in elementary school, some of the 5th graders were selected each year to serve as crossing guards.

They were given a red sash and a small stop sign, and directed traffic before and after school in the street in front of the school.

Couple this with the fact that elementary school kids were walking to and from school on their own.

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

We were too. Then we had a big party at the end of the year for safety patrol members at a local amusement park.

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Dexy1017@reddit

i was also a 5th grade crossing guard, although we had a bright orange sash that went over one shoulder and around the waist. We also received a badge and I was so proud lol.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

At the elementary school I attended for 1st to 3rd grade, we used to look up (literally) to the 5th & 6th graders who had their "School STOP Patrol" orange flags on flagpoles, and their yellow Sam Browne belts and badges.

As it was approaching the time of the morning bell, at one street corner next to the school, the patrols would send out a purposeful wail: "FIVE... MORE... MINNNNUTES!" which would be get picked up like a song round by the other patrols on each of the other intersections in turn. They sounded like the cicadas in late summer.

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NJ-VA-OBX-25@reddit

Same. We were called safety patrols.

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bb9116@reddit

I was so proud to be a patrol!

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Dexy1017@reddit

Oh shit, so were we, now that I think about it!

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Dry_Finger_8235@reddit

I was a crossing guard , normal thing back then. Now not so much

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brendini511@reddit

I did that in 5th and 6th grades (last 6th grade class at the elementary schools in my district).

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Significant-Theme253@reddit

I did that!

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lasorciereviolette@reddit

Birthday spanking.

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SusanKHefner@reddit

I had completely forgotten this was ever a thing.

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lasorciereviolette@reddit

And 1 to grow. 😖

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P_Fossil@reddit

A sub in my kid’s school tried this in 2017. It went how you would expect it to go.

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lasorciereviolette@reddit

omg.

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Round-Place548@reddit

By a teacher

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JLBF78@reddit

By a principal

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tchrbrian@reddit

By the smoke pit

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Thrashbear@reddit

Near the fire pond.

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MaybeOnFire2025@reddit

Parents giving kids money to run into a store to buy cigarettes for them (the parents) and stores being 100% fine with it.

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caarmygirl@reddit

I’m 52, I was doing that for my grandparents when I was 4-5ish, we didn’t move up to getting the beer/whatever at the drive through liquor until about 10.

🤌🏻🤷🏻‍♀️

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IAm5toned@reddit

My high school had "Senior Night", the night before the last day of class for seniors; a no holds barred 100% pure mayhem and debauchery rager that went literally all night until the sun came up and you were expected to show up for the last day of class as was tradition. This was not some kid throwing a kegger when his parents were out of town, this was unofficially sponsored by the town with a dozen+ kegs, on donated land with off duty police at the exit making sure that whoever was driving was fit to drive before they left.

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Glitterbomb4274@reddit

Not sure about other places, but my small Texas high school had freshmen hazing the first week of school. Very similar to Dazed and Confused. Everyone was in on it, students, teachers and staff. Mostly just embarrassing stuff and nobody got hurt, but zero chance it would happen today.

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Salty_Department925@reddit

My high school basketball coach practiced with us and showered with us.

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Interesting-Put-236@reddit

My 7th grade gym teacher (f) stood outside the (f) shower and checked you off for the day when you came out naked. I was self conscious and wore my shirt once and got written up for non participation

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PerlNacho@reddit

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Bree7702@reddit

When I was in 6th grade we had to take a hunters education course and if we passed the test we were able to go to a range and shoot. This seems so wildly inappropriate to me now. It was a mandatory class too.

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Entire-Flower1259@reddit

That seems fair for those cultures that like to hunt. Like a driver’s test so no one gets control of a deadly weapon before showing that they’re aware of the responsibility.

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Mountain-Selection38@reddit

Hazeing

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ThrowRA--scootscooti@reddit

Luckily they stopped it at my school the year before I was a freshman (1990) I was so relieved!!

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ryverrat1971@reddit

As a 5yo I was sent to the bar 6 doors up from childhood home to pick up ordered pizza. If not done, the regulars would set me on a bar stool and buy me a soda. Yeah living in NE PA, you would see kids in bars doing this. Hell many kids had first taste of alcohol as young as five from a family member (regulars at bar would never thing to do that - owner would have thrown them out).

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forgeblast@reddit

Nepa too, yes I can remember sitting in bars waiting for food to be picked up. The regulars knew my father and God father who owned a bar in jessup. Also going into a local convenience store to buy merit menthol ultra lights for my mom lol.

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katiekat214@reddit

As soon as I could drive, I got sent with a check to the local liquor store to drive through for my parents’ regular order.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

Friends who grew up in 1960s-1970s Czechoslovakia told me how embarrassing it was for them as little kids when dad would get thirsty watching a soccer game or something on TV and would make them go down the street with the family džbán - a big brown ceramic jug -- and get it filled with beer at local pub.

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ryverrat1971@reddit

Nah. Marlboros for step father at the corner store. Lowest I remember was $0.50 a pack.

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UpstairsCommittee894@reddit

Only sent to pick up a pizza? I remember walking to the bar or store with a note to get cigarettes and/or beer at not much older.

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

For me it was across the street to buy Saratogas and I didn't need a note just the $2.

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ryverrat1971@reddit

Family didn't drink much, which was weird. Sister did and I did. Uncles did but immediate family were not drinkers. May have been better people if they had a shot, two-tree once in a while.

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Royal_Inspector8324@reddit

Exactly I used to buy beer and cigarettes as young as 5 years old

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CaryWhit@reddit

Road trips for high school kids! We regularly drive 2.5 hours each way to go canoeing and camping. I remember calling mom collect from the pay phone at the campground to tell her we made it. No other communication

1982 Many Islands campgrounds, Hardy Arkansas in my 76 Monte Carlo

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katiekat214@reddit

My ex-husband grew up a couple of hours from there. It’s a beautiful area.

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damutecebu@reddit

My boss used to take roadtrips with her brother from upstate New York to visit family in New York City when he first learned to drive. He was 16 and she was 14.

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iknowsheknowz@reddit

My sister and I regularly drove from Michigan to Wyoming from my dad to my mom. It started when I was 12, and yes I drove. My first solo trip I was 17.

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CaryWhit@reddit

I drove my family station wagon in NYC when I was about that age. I thought I was doing good till a taxi did the left turn from the far right lane!

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freebird37179@reddit

My elementary school would raffle off items at the Halloween carnival. If you sold the winning tickets and the winners weren't there they'd give you the item to take to the winner. I remember a 4th grader getting on the school bus with a Remington Model 1100 semi-automatic shotgun to take to the winner.

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

Grew up in the 90’s in Michigan, we would have our rifles in the truck to go hunting after class.

We also would get Nov 15, every opening day of firearm deer season off every year too

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katiekat214@reddit

That was common in the rural South, also duck season.

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CharismaticAlbino@reddit

My school had "slave for a day" auctions to raise money for charity

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Practical_Weather_54@reddit

Whoa! What year was that?

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CharismaticAlbino@reddit

I graduated in 97

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bellablissful@reddit

We had "bid on a bachelor".

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btach1323@reddit

Mine too!! Senior Slave Day happened all four years of high school during Spirit Week. Highest bidder won the privilege of having their senior “slave” follow them around during the school day doing stuff like carrying books and fetching/serving them lunch. Crazy times.

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Brilliant_Still_7879@reddit

Ours did too, but it was a fundraiser for senior activities

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

😦

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Tinytiger1973@reddit

You just triggered my memory - so did mine.

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Glittering_Ask3185@reddit

Senior Slave Day We would actually have an auction where the underclassmen would bid actual money for seniors and they would follow you around for the day and carry books or whatever...and yes, we did have minorities in school and no one even thought about how inappropriate it was, it's horrific to think about it now. This was the late 80's

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regdunlop08@reddit

We had the opposite, Freshman Senior Day was when each freshman was assigned to a senior as their personal servant/slave for the day, which usually included being dressed up however they liked (not sexy, it was a Catholic school after all) usually baby-style clothes. That was followed by being force fed baby food and other humiliation. School sanctioned hazing, yay! (Mid 1980s)

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bigmedallas@reddit

Football coach wouldn't let us take a water break till someone was in bad shape, not surprised when some kid at another school died. On really hot days there were two assistants with hoses soaking us down.

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Rays_LiquorSauce@reddit

First day of hunting season kids with licenses could do half days. Either the morning or afternoon. Parking lot was filled with rifles

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Main_Tension_9305@reddit

Buddy of mine used to bring his shotgun to school during hunting season.

Got on the bus with it and kept it in his locker.

Yup.

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WPI94@reddit

Wow that’s wild

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Swimming-Compote-168@reddit

I was on the swim team and we would pick a Saturday to round up all the freshmen and haze them. Nothing bad. Make them do stupid things like scavenger hunt, or eat weird things like a sweet cereal with ketchup, mustard, salsa. We did this until we decided to make them do a Chinese fire drill and the driver took off before the person got into the car and the person fell and broke his arm.

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damutecebu@reddit

I don’t think that would have been allowed at most schools back then.

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InsertCleverNickHere@reddit

Midwest, 1990, we had senior sleepover night where all the seniors camped out on school grounds the night before graduation. Seemed pretty common.

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SleepWithRockStars@reddit

My first hs did this. Mid 1980s.

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ThisCromulentLife@reddit

Yes! Does anyone do lock-ins anymore?

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asyouwish@reddit

The only lock-ins we ever had were all church-based.

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yurinator71@reddit

Slave Days

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DesignNormal9257@reddit

Where did you go to school?

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yurinator71@reddit

Western Colorado mid 80s. It was cancelled my junior year.

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_Anon_E_Moose@reddit

What in the two syllable Southern hay-ell was that?

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yurinator71@reddit

Freshman were "sold" to upperclassmen as "slaves" for a week of humiliation and random tasks. It was all in good fun, but the implications ...

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Loud_Octopus@reddit

The one that were strong enough liked to pick up the principal's car and move it, I heard once it made it to the roof, to this day I wish I could have seen how they moved a whole ass car around like that

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saposguy@reddit

When I was in high-school they offered a car repair class. Every year the principals car would get put in weird places. Turns out the shop class got a "secret" assignment of messing with the principals car...no one ever questioned why the principal started driving a beater about a month before school ended, or why he was leaving it parked over night in the parking lot.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

Panty raid.

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TrapperJon@reddit

Leave school for lunch starting in first grade. We were allowed to walk to a couple restaurants nearby or a friend's house to get lunch.

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ThisCromulentLife@reddit

The school I went to (on an Air Force base) actually required any kid who lived on base to go home for lunch- there was not enough room in the cafeteria for all of us! I loved it.

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Dexy1017@reddit

I was allowed to buy my dad cigarettes via a vending machine in the 'lounge' (inside a full service restaurant, where my mom was the bar manager.

She had a ton of regulars and I was also allowed to make a couple drinks behind the bar once, with my mom supervising and instructing, but my 10 year old self legit doing the pouring of everything, including the liquor.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I believe it's still legal to work as a bartender if you're 18, but a bartender ages 18-20 is not legal to drink the kinds of beverages they tap or mix for their customers.

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Dexy1017@reddit

I was 10.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I know, I was just chiming in with a slightly less weird example of people working bar who can't drink the drinks. Yes, 10 is waaay younger.

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Defiant_Leave9332@reddit

When I was 3 my father would send me to the local shop (was just a couple of minutes walk from our apartment) to get him cigarettes and the newspaper. No note needed.

Ireland in the late 70s.

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btach1323@reddit

When I was old enough to go to the store alone (the ripe old age of 7 or 8), my aunt used to send me to the store with a note giving permission for me to buy her cigarettes. Salem Light 100s. I never had a problem and nobody cared. Gave them the note and the money, they handed me cigarettes and sent me on my way.

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PopeInThePizza@reddit

There was a big bush party after high school grad ceremonies. Wherever the party was held, school busses would pick up the kids when it got light, most of them drunk as hell, and take them to the school where the teachers would serve them breakfast. In my grad year the loaded breakfast was switched to the Lions hall. That was the last year of it.

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weightyinspiration@reddit

We did the same thing, minus the school buses. A big bush party with a fire in a gravel pit down a logging road.

We had cops who would hang out on the road to make sure nobody was driving drunk. They also would do rounds around the fire to make sure nobody was oding or fighting.

It was the only time the cops dgaf if we were drinking, they knew it would happen, and just wanted to make sure we were safe.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I can see why they would quit doing that.

I DID think your story was going to go in another direction when you opened with "big bush party".

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_ArsenioBillingham_@reddit

Well that was every party back then

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Vanpocalypse-Now@reddit

Toga Day during sprit week. I have never seen so many random dude body parts in my life. No one wore anything under...no the fuck thank you. 😂

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No-Kitchen-4332@reddit

Smoking section for kids. High school, of course.

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Catgirl1972@reddit

I went to a boarding school. Not only was there an outdoor smoking area, but each dorm also had its own smoking room in the basement.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

We called ours "The Pit". I would go out there to talk to various friends, although I didn't smoke myself.

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No_Profile_3343@reddit

Ours was called “the pit” as well. I did the same as you, didn’t smoke but wanted to talk with those out there!

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SleepWithRockStars@reddit

Yep

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Lacey_Dawson1012@reddit

My high school had smoking areas for the students.

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anarkust@reddit

Ours was in the front facing the main street.

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Lacey_Dawson1012@reddit

Nice. I got transferred out oqf my school the second half of 8th grade to the school my stepmother taught at because I got in so much trouble. She thought she could keep an eye on me that way. The high school in that town didn't have skiing areas. So I missed out by being transferred out 6 months before I would have started high school. Bummer

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SusanKHefner@reddit

At my elementary school, if your family could afford $60 for the lift ticket for the entire ski season, you were allowed to miss school every Wednesday to ski.

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Lacey_Dawson1012@reddit

Oh nice ! My middle school took a trip to the ski resort every Friday evening during the winter after school. I must have been behaving myself at that point because my parents bought me used boots skis and bindings for these trips. My mom was a teacher at that school and she chaperoned the ski trips. I think that is the only reason I was able to convey Friday night. She was a trip chaperone. I don't think I would have ended up there at all if she wasn't chaperoning

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Weird-one0926@reddit

Mine too, right in the corner between the gyn and the band room

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Fantastic-Pop-9122@reddit

Mine too.

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SpreadsheetSiren@reddit

I was a choir/orchestra nerd. (String player -no band for me!) The idea that our choir and orchestra teachers would sign notes to excuse is from a class here or there for “extra rehearsal” before a performance.

There was no actual extra rehearsal. It was just a chance to go decompress in the music room for a period or two. We might go over a few pieces that had tricky parts, but mostly it was to eat lunch, share snacks, maybe get some homework done and just hang.

The trick was to not cause trouble. That’s how we got away with it.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I used to tutor peers who were from the English as a Second Language program at my high school. The ESL teacher was happy with my help with his students and wrote me a universal, no-expiration hall pass.

Having this pass immediately drained away all the fun of collecting old or blank hall passes, forging signatures, meticulously altering the dates and times. I missed the potential rush of being checked, getting away with my petty or grand alterations, and being waved on to skip class carefree.

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ScaryNation@reddit

As an oboe player, I had my razor sharp reed knives with me all the time in school Can’t imagine that would be allowed now.

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professor_throway@reddit

That 100% still happens today... My kids take advantage of it. Except for them it's the band room.

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Pendragenet@reddit

Our summer camp had a bathing beauty contest every year. Guys made up in bikinis and makeup with balloon boobs.

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VanillaCola79@reddit

Apparently that’s still a thing.

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Pendragenet@reddit

For 9 to 15 (on average, but up to 19) year olds?

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VanillaCola79@reddit

Even for adults

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Pendragenet@reddit

I know it happens with adults, but I didn't realize it was happening at kids' camps again as an all around fun activity.

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Dry_Yogurt2458@reddit

Why not ? It's just drag

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TXQuiltr@reddit

Rifles mounted on the back window of pickup trucks in the student's parking lot.

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pythongee@reddit

This was me. I went to a rural high school and, in the fall, we'd go pheasant hunting straight from school.

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CanIgetaWTF@reddit

Crazy to think that there was a time in our nation's history when it was not uncommon for boys to carry a rifle to school, prop it up in the corner of the school house next to the other rifles and coats, and carry it with them on the walk home. Hunting on the walk to and from school.

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

Some schools in the 20th century had shooting ranges.

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SusanKHefner@reddit

Can confirm. My hs had a shooting range for Rifle Club

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Rays_LiquorSauce@reddit

They gave kids half days on opening deer season

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TacticalPurpose@reddit

I bought a stun gun second hand and brought it to school for weeks. We’d prank each other with it by sneaking up behind each other and give a little zap. This went on for weeks until someone “lost” it. Today, do not pass go, immediate expulsion.

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The_Original_Miser@reddit

Today, do not pass go, immediate expulsion.

....terrorism charges and whatever other BS they can get to stick also.

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LoudMind967@reddit

We had Harris field day was basically the same thing across the street from the school. Cops would come just to contain the chaos but not f with anyone. I'm pretty sure that would not fly today

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markov-271828@reddit

Sophomore slave sale.

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Rays_LiquorSauce@reddit

Yeah we had a senior slave day complete with auction block. In a civil war town no less.

We also had something called the googamooga where seniors cross dressed

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Araneas@reddit

OP's example made sense - they were going to party anyway so might as well have them do it where you can keep a discrete eye on the kids and intervene if things got out of hand.

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Dhampri0@reddit

Smoking section on school property.

Loaded Gun racks in trucks in parking lot with coolers full of the animals that were gotten before school.

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dab70@reddit

Yep, we even had an outside smoking section at the strict Catholic high school I attended in the mid to late 80's.

At my kid's public high school, I think they fire you into the sun if you tried to smoke a cigarette on school property.

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TXQuiltr@reddit

My co-worker told me a story of one of his co-worker. He saw another vehicle hit and kill a deer on the way to the office. He put it in his truck, called his wife, and had her bring his gear to the back company parking lot. He did whatever hunters do to the deer.

His wife took the cooler home, and he went to work as normal.

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Ecstatic_Army1306@reddit

Wet T-shirt contests.

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jdewith@reddit

lol, those still happen all the time.

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Inner-Confidence99@reddit

Smoking pits for the teens and teachers.

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eddie964@reddit

There were a couple of teachers who would occasionally bum smokes from students. And of course you could have smoked a ham the teachers' lounge.

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Inner-Confidence99@reddit

I was in high school and we couldn’t smoke on campus. I hid my cigarettes but one of my coaches who was a teacher as well would come to me to ask for smokes if he ran out. I asked are you gonna report me he said hell no I need some and can’t leave campus. Teachers could smoke inside their cars. lol

Now kid would be suspended and teacher put on leave.

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froction@reddit

When I was in college (mid 90s) my fraternity had a party every year where the men dressed in Confederate military uniforms and rode horses to pick up our dates, who were dressed in huge antebellum dresses. The party was held at a cotton plantation house that was built in the 1830s.

This was at a state college, even. I cannot imagine what the reaction would be today.

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Clarissalover@reddit

Kappa Alpha Order?

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froction@reddit

Of course

Alpha Gamma, baby!

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froction@reddit

AFAIK there are no surviving photographs of me participating in such, so I guess I can still run for public office some day.

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ManyProfessional3324@reddit

Given the country’s current trajectory, you could probably put that picture on a campaign poster and still get elected. 🫤

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KerouacRoadTrip@reddit

Not bizarre, but would never fly today: My high school library had a wall where companies posted job opportunities for students. When I brought that up to my son who wants to get a part time job, he looked at me like I grew up in an alternate universe.

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doubtfulisland@reddit

Sitting on grandpa's lap at the casino while he plays blackjack and if I got too antsy nips of jack and coke.

Riding in the back of the truck starting around age 8.

Being dragged behind a truck with a car hood upside down tied the truck through muddy fields like a red neck Santa's slay. We'd ride around for hours doing this in the fields.

Lots of kids had gun racks in their trucks in high school parking lot. We'd often go to someone's house and shoot after practice.

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UpstairsCommittee894@reddit

I still see people getting dragged behind trucks on hoods or mattress boxsprings around here. If you ha e snow and fields it will never stop.

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doubtfulisland@reddit

Awesome!

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Gadsen77@reddit

We had an area reserved for students over 18 to smoke or chew at my high school.

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Far_Pomelo8026@reddit

We did, too. But no age limit. Weird to think teachers were okay with 14 year olds smoking between H and S buildings. Class of 84.

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Inkdman73@reddit

Mine had a courtyard in the center of the school- and the seniors every year would have a Volkswagen Bug moved into the courtyard every night- it was always a mystery as to how they did it-

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RockSteady65@reddit

I remember one year MIT students got one on top of the dome at the top of their building. Nobody could figure out how they did it.

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Master_Hospital_8631@reddit

My dad would stop at a couple of bars on the way home from our grandparents house. My brother and I would sit at a table drinking cokes and eating warm cashews.

As we got older we would be allowed to play pool.

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maddog2271@reddit

Yeah I used to hit the bar with my old man and drink cokes. One was owned by a friend of his and I got to call him by his first name, and it used to make adults look at me kind of funny when I would walk up to the bar and say “hey Joe“ and he’d reply “hey Mike what’ll it be”. I was like 8 years old.

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imightbeadud@reddit

After my folks got divorced when I was 7 yo and I had bar and diner experiences with my dad.

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

In June, the Seniors drag-racing on the main street in front of the high school.

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RockSteady65@reddit

They did donuts in the parking lot at my school

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

When they had the special “days” in school for a fundraiser or some crap. Slave day comes to mind, where you’d get bought by another student to do stupid things. Actually that’s the only day I remember, but I know there were others. Dress up like a fill in the blank day. No doubt some culturally inappropriate costumes were worn on some of those days that people would lose their minds over today.

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ScarInternational161@reddit

I got the choice to get spanked 3 times with a wooden board or suspended 3 days in 6th grade. The spanking didn't involve a call home. Took it and went back to class with a red ass.

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bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit

Aah, the illusion of choice.

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ReadGardenCamp@reddit

A skate/BMX shop co-worker who grew up in the country offered suburban shoplifters that choice in the mid 90’s. Ick. I made him stop.

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dooshlaroosh@reddit

Is it strange that my boss offered me the same choice earlier today during a “performance evaluation?”

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Lacey_Dawson1012@reddit

Oooh I got osddied once. That is no joke. That really hurt. Stung my butt but good.

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

I had similar experiences. My mom would always find out; because the principal was her brother-in-law.

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Educational_Tap_4704@reddit

My mom locked the doors to the house so we could not get in until she was doing whatever she was doing. Issue fly it was for hours at a time.

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Certain_Luck_8266@reddit

She let the neighbor in first right? Uncle Kevin?

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Ecstatic_Army1306@reddit

Two NYC-area DJs — Opie and Anthony? — in the ‘90s promoted Whip ‘Em Out Wednesday. The idea was for women to flash men, particularly while driving. It was a regular part of existence, with WOW bumper stickers and whatnot. Revolting.

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Linux4ever_Leo@reddit

I went to U of M and they had an annual 'Naked Mile' run. The students were literally butt naked and ran through the campus. They finally put a stop to it when cell phones started getting cameras and people were posting pictures of naked students on-line without their permission.

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JestWeb-2FAvictim@reddit

Toilet papering someone's house. Getting it all up in their trees dressing down really nice and all

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CrazyMinute69@reddit

My parents used to make me go outside and collect all the toilet paper carefully. So we could reuse it!

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anarkust@reddit

My mom used to take my younger brother and his friends to toilet paper others houses. They were all band nerds.

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Ural-Guy@reddit

Youngest of 8, I thought we were the only ones! I remember my mom being shocked that they used nice 2-ply stuff.

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FabAmy@reddit

I didn't know people still did this until last Spring. One house on my block was covered. It was probably prom time when it happened. It definitely took me back!

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Electronic_Rope4178@reddit

Kids still do this for home coming in my town, I cleaned up toilet paper this fall lol. On the plus side the kids weren’t very good at it so it didn’t take very long to clean up.

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mtnola@reddit

Toilet papering still happens in my area.

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wieldymouse@reddit

I remember refilling the snacks (peanuts and pretzels) at my dad's friend's bar on the regular when I was about 7.

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Karate-Schnitzel@reddit

Smoking 🚬 area between buildings

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sravll@reddit

The smoke pit. Had butt cans and everything

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closethebarn@reddit

Had a hunting rifle in my dads pickup id drive in the back window complete with orange curtains and all. Just parked at school no big deal.

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Worth_Fondant3883@reddit

We had an annual raft race on the local river. You needed a life jacket but that was it as far as safety went. I'm talking 13 year olds and a river with a strong current. To top that off, people stood on the bridges and pelted raft goers with rotten tomatoes, cow shit and occasionally pumpkins. Good times.

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Significant-Theme253@reddit

Tailgating - Huge parties outside in the parking lot at stadiums before concerts with hundreds of people who were drinking beer, listening to loud music and having a good time.

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Dry_Finger_8235@reddit

This is still a thing, concerts, college football games, hell the tailgating for LSU games starts on Thursday nights

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MoonyDMakii-Doo@reddit

The Diving Horse in Atlantic City. I saw 👀 it with my own eyes.

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Significant-Theme253@reddit

I haven't seen the big ones in Minnesota.

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xSPACEWEEDx@reddit

This is 100% still a thing

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Significant-Theme253@reddit

I still go to concerts and I do not see anyone? In minnesota?

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djsmurphy@reddit

Seniors got to "prank" the school. We got let in at night by a supervising teacher and we're allowed to rearrange classrooms, Vaseline doorknobs, etc. My class took all of the folding chairs and spelled out "88 rules" on the football field. Each senior class was also allowed to spray paint our names on the street in front of the school

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Man, my school threatened to prosecute me and a couple of my friends for vandalism at the end of our final year cos we wrote our names in chalk on a wall hidden out the back of the school where we'd always hang out at lunch etc. Phoned our parents and everything. This was in the uk though.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Spray painting the road ended with my class because one of my friends thought it would be funny to paint a 100 foot long dick on the road instead of his name.

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Ok_Ad8249@reddit

It was a tradition at my high school too, though there was no cooperation from the school. Usually they would TP the school on a Sunday night their final week of school. My Sophomore year they got carried away.

A group had gone to a mountain and brought back 3 pick ups of snow and blocked the traffic exit. The janitors didn't have time to clean it up so the fence was closed for the day. We did have a main entrance but it meant some back up with all the busses and cars using the main entrance. We also had a courtyard in the center of the school and some guys had pulled the shell of a VW bug over the roof and lowered it in.

They did identify the students responsible and while punishment was kept quiet, from the school's history it's most likely the students (or parents) paid for damage and clean up so they could attend graduation.

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TeaVinylGod@reddit

Dang. That's a lot of rules to spell out. Good thing you had the whole football field.

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djsmurphy@reddit

🤣

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auntieup@reddit

People in my class got the big plastic cow off the roof of a local dairy and put it on the 50-yard line of our football field.

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Positive-Froyo-1732@reddit

Not a tradition per se, but in high school I had an AP class that was right before lunch. Teacher was a young, cool guy who lived a couple of blocks from the school. One day he suggested we all blow off class and take an extended lunch to go to his house to watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." So we did. I can't even imagine the fallout if that were to happen today.

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SympathyFun2179@reddit

I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time

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OreoSpamBurger@reddit

Gimme 5 bees for a quarter, you'd say.

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Amazing_Factor2974@reddit

What?

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ShimmyxSham@reddit

I used to ride my skateboard to school. It was my only form of transportation ans the vice principal at my school broke into my locker and took it to his office because I was skateboarding on school grounds

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AldruhnHobo@reddit

Saying the Lord's Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance in school.

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PossibleAlienFrom@reddit

They probably still do the Pledge of Allegiance at schools that are on bases.

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Dexy1017@reddit

In FL and GA, we still do the Pledge in all schools today.

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Fun_Independent_7529@reddit

Don't most schools still do the Pledge in the US? I would think it'd be standard.

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One_Love_Mama@reddit

Our school does

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CardinaLiz4@reddit

Ehh I would not really classify that as "would never fly these days." I'm pretty sure both are said in many schools still.

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Reasonable-Mirror-15@reddit

We used to just take off to the desert or mountains on the weekends to ride dirt bikes, shoot guns and go hiking. Just 20 teens sleeping in tents or the backs of trucks, a big fire, hot dogs, and lots of Boones Farm, cheap beer and weed. We still get together once in a while but now we have Rvs and more toys.

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

😮

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Injustry@reddit

Not sure what’s going on with year books in middle school nowadays, but my yearbook had best physique, totally sexualizing 9th grade bodies.

Also had short fry and big Mack nominated after the shortest person and the largest person.

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Due-Gene8200@reddit

Damn that’s wild! 😂

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Zealousideal_Draw_94@reddit

We had a switch day, where girls wore football jerseys and the guys had dresses, skirt and wigs.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

And the powder puff football game!

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Inkdman73@reddit

Same at my school!

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rotomangler@reddit

Smoking wall,

prayer before assembly,

questionable football mascot,

band teacher would throw drumsticks at people talking,

destroying the school hallways end of last day,

space shuttles exploding.

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deadline_zombie@reddit

band teacher would throw drumsticks at people talking,

What is it with band teachers throwing whatever is handy at kids? I saw the movie Whiplash and didn't realize how universal band teachers being abusive is.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Friend of mine had a dented bell on his trumpet because our band teacher threw a lyre at him

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DominicPalladino@reddit

Reads like forgotten lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire.

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dzbuilder@reddit

Cutting off the tips of baby boys’ dicks…oh wait

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UpbeatPhilosophySJ@reddit

It's all haha funny until that adult version and then it's fml.

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justmarkdying@reddit

Living in the South, nearly every pickup truck in the junior and senior parking lots had gun racks with every type of long gun imaginable. Shotguns, hunting rifles and muskets. I think one was even a blunderbuss. And you can bet your ass they were all locked and loaded.

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not-a-dislike-button@reddit

Anyone with a rudimentary recollection of the recent past understands that our nations issue with shootings is not one of increased gun access, that's for sure.

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AvailableAd6071@reddit

Exactly.

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justmarkdying@reddit

100% on the money.

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Ok_Ad8249@reddit

I had a friend who went to high school just outside Vancouver, WA a city across the river from Portland, OR. He said it was similar to what you saw, a lot of kids would go hunting before school. He spent his first couple years in high school in the suburbs outside Portland and said it was just a 40 minute drive away but it seemed like he was on a different planet.

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Astronaut6735@reddit

For High School:

We had a smoking pit where teachers and students would smoke together.
My school offered a marksmanship course. They would drive us to a nearby gun range where an old grizzled veteran taught us how to accurately shoot .22LR. Some kids had hunting rifles in the gun racks in their pickups while parked on-campus, so they could go hunting directly after school.
I had a typing teacher who would send me off campus to get doughnuts, because I always finished my in-class work in the first ten to fifteen minutes. We also left campus to go to McDonald's, Arby's, or Burger King for lunch.
Nobody got in trouble on senior skip day; I went bowling with my girlfriend instead of going to class.

As far as smoking goes, you could pretty much buy them anywhere. Some places might want a note from literally anyone older if you were buying them as a young kid. When I was twelve, my fourteen-year-old sister sent me to the corner store with a note to buy her some cigarettes, and they didn't hesitate to sell them to me.

Here's the note lol.

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AvailableAd6071@reddit

I learned how to drive in my older boyfriends car long before 16. I knew how to drive when I got to driver's ed, so my instructor, one of the football coaches, had me go pick up to-go food for his pregnant wife. That was my on the road instruction.

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wastintime1@reddit

My kids' school still has senior skip day. Mine couldn't participate because they played a spring sport and skip day was always a game day! If you were absent you couldn't play

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baadkitteekittee@reddit

Omg, you just described my highschool and the same teachers I dealt with along with the open campus and smoking section. The note looked like my friends handwriting to get cigs sold to us could try the first time. Also my dad would write a note for me to take to the corner store for his cigs! We could be duplicates of one another ! Lol

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Spickernell@reddit

I love the note. Nice handwriting!

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SnowblindAlbino@reddit

At my HS it was tradition for the seniors to camp out on the lawn the night before graduation. We had about 100 people from my class, and 2/3 of the total. Blaring boom boxes, tents, campstoves, people went crazy. Some got on the roof at one point. Others went to the Safeway and "borrowed" some massive display cutouts, which we set up on the lawn. Others drove around town and collected every real estate sign they could find, which were also piled up on the lawn. The cops drove by perhaps every hour or so until midnight, and then we didn't see much of them again until dawn.

Today? If a kid was seen outside the high school here after 900pm or so they'd probably get arrested.

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wastintime1@reddit

I have a kiddo that graduated last May. They all camped out on the football field one night in the spring. Tents and all

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brendini511@reddit

We had a pep keg for pep assemblies. Sadly, they did away with it after my freshman year.

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Substantial_Cow7628@reddit

My high school had a fire pond (i.e., an artificial pond created to serve as a reservoir for the fire department to use to fight a fire at the school). It was a long standing tradition for seniors to throw the freshmen they didn't like into the pond.

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brendini511@reddit

For us it was kids getting put in trash cans. It wasn't always seniors vs. freshmen, though.

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Substantial_Cow7628@reddit

My Junior High had a tradition called Slave Day where the boys could buy the girls and then the girls could buy the boys the following day. Typically you bought someone so you could dress them up in something embarrassing and make them carry your books around all day. Lots of male athletes spent that day in cheerleader outfits and wigs.

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Ok_Ad8249@reddit

I made one of the comments on this. We had two other high schools in my district and neither had this. Speaking with people I met from the Portland area ever since I got out of high school nobody anywhere had one. The closest anybody had to this at their high school is a "servants day." His school did away with it when it came down to Senior girls were buying Freshman boys and it turned into more of a "humiliation day." Not sure how I feel knowing so many other schools had the same insane idea.

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P_Fossil@reddit

Ours was Senior Slave Day, where seniors bought freshmen - one by one in a live auction on stage - to uhhh, I guess, be their slave for a day. 🫤 It was only the boys who could be “slaves,” but anyone could bid. Ended in 1989.

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Camaschrist@reddit

What part of the country was this? This didn’t happen in my area that I have heard of.

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P_Fossil@reddit

Rural, small-town Texas

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Camaschrist@reddit

I was reading comments and someone from the same city I grew up and graduated high school in, Portland Oregon. They had slave day too. A Roman themed slave day. I am surprised.

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djsmurphy@reddit

I was coming to the comments to mention slave day.

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tracerhaha@reddit

We had Senior Slave Day in HS.

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Inkdman73@reddit

Mine too!

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Pattyannlu@reddit

Omg! I totally forgot about THIS!!! It was at my high school though. Crazy!!!

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punkwalrus@reddit

I was going to say donkey basketball, which my high school stopped because of animal cruelty, but googling proof such a thing used to exist showed... It still exists.

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brendini511@reddit

Yeah, my sister's school did it last year (I think).

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Only_Presentation758@reddit

We had “Santa-grams” as a HS fundraiser from the Pep Club before Xmas break; you paid a dollar and a couple members of the club would bust into your classroom to deliver the note that someone bought for you. Many were incredibly suggestive like “I Want To Lick Your Candy Cane!” and “Let Me Stuff Your Stocking!” I can only guess the principal/teachers ok’d the idea & didn’t monitor the proceedings.

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Wiser_Owl99@reddit

We had something similar for Valentine's Day.

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SuzanneStudies@reddit

I got an anonymous gift of a stuffed animal and a poem that said, “Roses are red, LPs are black, here’s your dumb bunny, let’s hop in the sack.”

I would considered it, because I grinned for days, but never found out who sent it.

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Minimum_Republic_600@reddit

Oh, easy: chicken pox party.

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Camaschrist@reddit

I got chicken pox in college and my parents were happy to have me infect my much younger brothers.

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Fun_Independent_7529@reddit

Oh no. These are still happening. Lots of non-vaxxers out there.

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Dexy1017@reddit

High school parties and/or 'hangouts' (in a field, on the causeway to the beach, at someone's house, etc) were almost always broken up by the cops, who would just tell us to pour out the beer if we weren't inside someone's house and go home. When it was a house party, they never even came inside and confiscated the alcohol, which almost always included a full keg and break up the party, sending all the minor intoxicated kids to drive themselves home. We also made flyers for all the house parties and distributed them at school, including date, address, etc. No one ever said a word.

Even better, the one time I was the host of a house party, my 10th grade World History teacher, who was everyone's fave teacher, asked me to stay after class one day. Once the room cleared, he asked me to confirm I was having a party that weekend and then asked if his 18-29 year old college nephews (who were coming to town for Spring Break that week) could attend. I agreed and the man then handed me a $20 and said to use it for the asked for $5 contribution per head.

This was in 1988. True story on my life lol

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Worldly_Possible2925@reddit

The first year students would be lined up at the end of the hurling field at the side of the school. Behind them was a 7 foot wall covered with pebble dash stones. At the other end of the field was the rest of the school. The teachers would walk back to the shed. Turn their backs, blow a whistle and the entire school would descend on the first years. You would get a pretty good kicking if you weren’t able to make it over the wall and into the back gardens of the houses that backed up to the school. Good times Not.

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LuckyElis13@reddit

WTAF? This is upsetting just thinking about it.

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Worldly_Possible2925@reddit

Yeah, the days leading up to it were not fun. Tales of years gone by from the 5 and 6 year students that my friends knew, didn’t help. The 1970’s in Ireland 🇮🇪 were a different time.

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Practical_Weather_54@reddit

That sounds like the beginning of a horror movie.

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125acres@reddit

We had metal detectors.

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Substantial_Cow7628@reddit

I grew up in rural New Hampshire. Many students had their hunting rifles mounted in their trucks when they arrived at school every morning.

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MaximumJones@reddit

And we did not have school shootings.

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Substantial_Cow7628@reddit

Well, one kid shot a deer on his way to school once. But he wasn't actually on school property yet.

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Dexy1017@reddit

A deer and a school full of kids is a vast difference though.

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Substantial_Cow7628@reddit

Yes. Good point.

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lunicorn@reddit

The newspaper listing so much personal information. Address of elementary school kid who was doing a project for Girl Scouts, for example. Published list of bus stop locations and pickup times.

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P_Fossil@reddit

THIS, oh my goddddd.

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Ok_Ad8249@reddit

My high school had a slave day.

Students (usually cheerleaders or dance team members) would offer themselves to be sold as "slaves" for homecoming week, usually being bought by their boyfriend or male friend. On the slave day they would show up in a toga (the whole thing was done with a Roman theme) and would carry their "master's" books between classes usually while fanning them.

The proceeds from their sale would go to help fund Homecoming events. This was in the early 80's in Portland, OR. I was stunned when I got to high school and saw it was an activity. Nobody ever said anything about it until a few years after I graduated.

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SixtyCycleBum@reddit

That’s next level insane

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Ok_Ad8249@reddit

That was my thought when I first saw it as a Freshman. Only thing stranger then it was still an annual tradition when I graduated (1985) is the whole time I was in high school it was never once protested. The editor of the school paper wrote an editorial once protesting wasting time with pep assemblies and the annual Mr. Legs contest during the Sadie Hawkins week (among other things) but no reference to the annual slave sale. We used to have an "air band" competition and one year a guy did Ozzy and snapped a cross in half during his performance. All sorts of community outrage, but nothing on the slave sale. I think it was finally eliminated my sister's senior year (1988)

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Ok_Ad8249@reddit

That was my thought when I first saw it as a Freshman. Only thing stranger then it was still an annual tradition when I graduated (1985) is the whole time I was in high school it was never once protested. The editor of the school paper wrote an editorial once protesting wasting time with pep assemblies and the annual Mr. Legs contest during the Sadie Hawkins week (among other things) but no reference to the annual slave sale. We used to have an "air band" competition and one year a guy did Ozzy and snapped a cross in half during his performance. All sorts of community outrage, but nothing on the slave sale. I think it was finally eliminated my sister's senior year (1988)

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Ok-meow@reddit

Omg! You just tripped my memory bank! We did too! Sacramento, Ca.

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Moody_GenX@reddit

We did in Vacaville too, lol

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Pattyannlu@reddit

My high school too. Crazy. I think it kind of ended with my class (89). For the entire 4 years of high school, we collectively didn’t participate in the school activities. The class ahead of us were super involved in all of it, our class student council was bankrupt the whole 4 years 😂

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MurderedRemains@reddit

My Western Australian High school (and moat others) had what was called "muck up day" for decades.

The last day of the School year, the Year 12 (graduating) students would do pretty much anything within the law, and a lot outside it.

Water/flour/egg bombing the Year 7 and any other young students on the way to and from school, including from moving vehicles as we had all just got our license.

We moved a teacher's 70s mini cooper up to a second floor balcony.

We used 40 litres of diesel to write BART in 10 metre high letters on the front lawn, it killed the grass until the new year started.

So many more things I can't remember any more, but we pushed it so far that 1991 was the last year anything like that was allowed.

The faculty were so pissed off at several pranks that they banned any students caught from attending the School Ball AND Graduation.

Nobody owned up or was caught in our year.

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Slycritter@reddit

We had basic the same on the last day of school. My senior year we brought super soakers full of lots of different liquid including urine. That one wasn't me. And a whole lot of other things. Fires were started lots of stuff was broken. They banned it the next year kids weren't even allowed backpack for the final week.

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Happy_Raspberry_6299@reddit

TPing football players’ houses the night before a game. Cheerleaders would divide into groups and tp a list of players’ homes. It took hours and we’d be exhausted at school the next day. We covered the trees and bushes and sang a song and then went to the next house. Most families thought it was fun. There were a couple we had to leave off the list as their parents got mad. I doubt that would fly nowadays… and the cost would be immense now!

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Island_Timz@reddit

Smoke pit on school property with students and teachers smoking together

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Thrashbear@reddit

Nicotine, the great equalizer.

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Wiser_Owl99@reddit

My sister in law's school had a tradition of the upperclassmen throwing pennies at the freshman when the freshmen walked into the first in school pep rally of the year.

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Luci_Cascadia@reddit

I had a teacher who had been in Hustler magazine. The issue in question got passed around the school at one point. She took 2 days off and came back like nothing had happened. Today i think she'd be fired and dragged online. She was a great science teacher.

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PossibleAlienFrom@reddit

I would probably have a huge crush on her lol

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iamamomandproud@reddit

Senior/freshman day. It was a tradition for seniors to terrorize the freshman class. Huge big deal happened every year and it was humiliating for some people. There would be so many lawsuits today. It was the hazing super event. The most disturbing things happened at the Freshman/Senior party. Our parents actually dropped us off to be covered in motor oil. Made swim through a river or cow shite. And those were some of the more tame activities.

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Uzi4U2@reddit

"Alright alright alright"

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Barthle@reddit

FRY YOU FRESHMAN BITCHES

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bulldogsm@reddit

soccer coach/college counselor had a bunch of us guys over to help him move apartments when his stewardess girlfriend dumped him and when we were done the 4 or 5 of us just sat around having beers

yes she was hot, we never met her but he had pics

fully clothed, get your head out of the gutter, you animals

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CommunicationNew3745@reddit

School Halloween party bonfires on the playground - where we would throw the 'magic lanterns' we'd made out of boxes & tissue paper on to the pyre to see how much higher we could make the flames go, smh.

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PuzzleFly76@reddit

There was something similar at my high school in the 80s. The night before the last day of school for before Thanksgiving. IOW, Tuesday night going into Wednesday morning, some football players and guys who took vocational classes would stay at school all night drinking and grilling. That Wednesday was a goof off day so no one really expected anybody to do much if they came to school. So these guys had kind of a cool all night party going into Thanksgiving break. One guy named Ike got really drunk and they taped him up to the horizontal bar on the field goal post and I think he stayed there most of the night. This tradition mostly happened in the 70s and 80s but tapered off in the early 90s I guess the world was changing.

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Ok_Echo_6528@reddit

Pretty much everything we did for fun 40 years ago

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Serious_Ad4542@reddit

Panty raids by college fraternities on sororities.