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1.What year did you start 1st grade? 1974
2.Where? Mountain Gardens P.S. Burlington, Ontario.
3.Who was your 1st grade teacher? Mrs. Sterling
4.Did you carry a lunch box? If so what did it look like? Nope. Brown bag for me.
5.How did you get to school? Walked
6.Did you carry a book bag, backpack or the like? No, we all had our own desks and very little homework
7.Something you remember from that first year? Our class was grades 1, 2, and 3. Was also the first year I played hockey

Lightning Bolt wrote:

Wino you know wrote:

Lightning Bolt wrote:Hey, when you vote for "No New Taxes", how do you think we can pay teachers...
let alone, build schools, pay police, firefighters and the like.
DON"T BE SO FOOLED when your politician (and President) tell you you should KEEP MORE OF YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY.
sure we'd like to keep it... just know that you're only helping to cut these essential services!!

......The federal government needs to spend LESS, not the working man and woman, so we CAN pay teachers and other public servants more. Teachers would get paid more, and the working American would have more money in THEIR pockets. What's wrong with that?

That sounds ideal, but hardly possible.
How do you cut spending, when we actually need to see it INCREASED to pay for all of those neat things discussed earlier?
I don't know how much you take home, but I do know that it is still among the LOWEST TAXED paychecks in the modern world.
I realize that this is little consolation, but it's what America's voters, and possibly your state's voters, chose as an economic direction.
What do you really want? More money in your pocket, at the expense of society needs?

Cut out Alot of the beauracracy and redundancy for one...for another, in some shcool systems, bus drivers and janitors are or were, making more than the teachers.
In some of the schools systems administration people make more.

Here is another way... the states that have gotten the lottery to supplement the school systems...be forced into actually doing som instead of cutting the school funding and mostly rely upon the lottery to fund it...to spend the money elsewhere on their favoritest pet projects and themselves, or the politicians funding such things as studying the sex habits of some South American swamp rat or a study on the sex habits of Jappenese quail and then funding another study on "WHY does the male Japanese quail prefer to have sex with female Japanese quail"... those are actual things that our tax dollars were spent on.....among many numerous others...you get the idea....I hope

Let the parents keep more of THEIR OWN money that they earned and maybe they could spend less time working and more quality time with their keets....

The keets here go 180 -186 days I think it is...I can find out easily enough..school stated here for the students 2 days ago....but they have all these mandated holidays and weather days to allow for, as well....so they start sooner and supposedly end sooner if all goes well....

The teacher salary here, varies from county to county throughout the state, and supposedly in this county we have some of the highest paid teachers in the state or did at one time....I know that if a teachers gets a Masters here, they will get an extra $5K a year...some teachers earn $50K or more per year....but they have been there for a while...

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As a follow to the last post, yes, we may have one of the lowest taxes on income here in the United States, but we also have one of the highest cost of living in the modern world. There is a lot of our Government budget that could be cut, not only to help increase teachers salaries, but also providing them the latest technology and training to provide for our children what they deserve, "The Best", nothing short of "The Best". It never gets much publicity, but the United States provides more foriegn relief aid than any combination of 5 countries. Yes, you can add up the aid provided by the next 5 largest aid providers in our world, and the United States still tops it. Time to take care of matters at home. Now as this was a school memory thread, let's get back to it. Everything thing I know how to do today was taught to me by a teacher. My parents were a Doctor and a Nurse, but all parents are teachers. What I did not learn in school, I was taught by my parents. Thank you to every teacher I ever had, especially my Mom and Dad.

P.S. School boxes were still for girls and Momma's Boys

Although I am envious of the Grateful Dead Dancing Bear Lunch Box.

Sidew13 wrote:1.What year did you start 1st grade? 1980
2.Where? Holly Springs Elementry School, Pickens, SC
3.Who was your 1st grade teacher? Miss Chastine
4.Did you carry a lunch box? If so what did it look like? Yes, not sure what though
5.How did you get to school? Bus
6.Did you carry a book bag, backpack or the like? Backpack
7.Something you remember from that first year? I had a crush on a black haired beauty until she moved away in the 4th grade

Why am I hearing Seger, and the screen is getting all wavy?

bus drivers and janitors are or were, making more than the teachers.

wow. They found a way to beat the system and make being paid an hourly wage work for them... If the work is getting done, I don't care.

What irritates me is teachers/admin staff who retire with their 20, 25, or 30, and then come back after 6 months and take advisory positions doing what they were doing before they retired, and making both their pension and the salary for the new job. There are several examples of that here locally where people actually doubled their old salary by retiring and then turning around and going back to work for the CPS.

tikitatas wrote:By law in Nova Scotia, we must teach 195 days per year. I am wondering how this compares with the state each of you lives in?

I don't know how many days NY requires but when I was in school we used to go back the Wednesday after Labor Day and we finished the 3rd week in June.

LIPH wrote:

tikitatas wrote:By law in Nova Scotia, we must teach 195 days per year. I am wondering how this compares with the state each of you lives in?

I don't know how many days NY requires but when I was in school we used to go back the Wednesday after Labor Day and we finished the 3rd week in June.

Same here . . . and that's how it still is pretty much. No complaints from me . . .

180 school days in Florida. They start today thru Monday depending on the county... All graduations are completed by Memorial Day. (end of May)

That has changed, as I recall starting the last week in August thru the 2nd week of June. I graduated on June 9.... in 1978.

1.What year did you start 1st grade? 1979
2.Where? Belmont Elementary
3.Who was your 1st grade teacher? Who Knows.
4.Did you carry a lunch box? If so what did it look like? Nope
5.How did you get to school? Uphill both ways. Oh wait I was in Nebraska.....I walked on a very flat road.
6.Did you carry a book bag, backpack or the like? Backpack
7.Something you remember from that first year? Isn't kindergarten your first year?

LIPH wrote:Am I the only one who went to a school that had a number instead of a name?

My mother did..... but that was in Westchester County. Greater NYC area is the only place I have ever heard of it.

PHBeerman wrote: 7.Something you remember from that first year? Isn't kindergarten your first year?

Not for me. Kindergarten was 'optional'. We all just started with 1st grade.

I just remembered that my teacher smelled really good . . . I think she can be blamed for my love of nice scent products!

PHBeerman wrote:2.Where? Belmont Elementary

You linked your school.... how cute!

PHBeerman wrote:7.Something you remember from that first year? Isn't kindergarten your first year?

For me it was my 3rd! My Mother taught at a private school in Greenwhich CT before we moved to FL. She could take me with her for free... so I had PreK, K then started 1st when we moved to FL. I recall her having a fit that I was so far ahead...but she didnt want to let me "skip"....

SMLCHNG wrote:

PHBeerman wrote: 7.Something you remember from that first year? Isn't kindergarten your first year?

Not for me. Kindergarten was 'optional'. We all just started with 1st grade.

That explains a thing or 2.

ToplessRideFL wrote:

PHBeerman wrote:2.Where? Belmont Elementary

You linked your school.... how cute!

The website wasn't there when I went there.....

PHBeerman wrote:7.Something you remember from that first year? Isn't kindergarten your first year?

For me it was my 3rd! My Mother taught at a private school in Greenwhich CT before we moved to FL. She could take me with her for free... so I had PreK, K then started 1st when we moved to FL. I recall her having a fit that I was so far ahead...but she didnt want to let me "skip"....[/quote]

I think Kindergarten is still optional. But I don't know anyone who has let their kid skip it.

PHBeerman wrote:The website wasn't there when I went there.....

No kidding???

PHBeerman wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:

PHBeerman wrote: 7.Something you remember from that first year? Isn't kindergarten your first year?

Not for me. Kindergarten was 'optional'. We all just started with 1st grade.

That explains a thing or 2.

SMLCHNG wrote: 7.Something you remember from that first year. I only was in 1st grade for 1 month, and then they promoted me to 2nd grade. (I learned a lot from my 3 older brothers and 1 older sister).

PHBeerman wrote:
I think Kindergarten is still optional. But I don't know anyone who has let their kid skip it.

Matt didn't go to kindergarten. That's how explains his inability to share.

1.What year did you start 1st grade? 1982
2.Where? Milford Elementary, South Milford, IN
3.Who was your 1st grade teacher? Mrs. Fretz
4.Did you carry a lunch box? If so what did it look like? ! No
5.How did you get to school? Walk, Bike, Bus, Car Pool, Parent etc… Rode the late Byron Bovee's bus to school. R.I.P. Byron!
6.Did you carry a book bag, backpack or the like?I genuinely don't remember... I might have had a backpack, but not sure.
7.Something you remember from that first year? M is for Munch

1.What year did you start 1st grade? 1994
2.Where? Haven Elementary School, New Lenox, IL
3.Who was your 1st grade teacher? Mrs. Irwin
4.Did you carry a lunch box? If so what did it look like? !Power Rangers... man I was cool
5.How did you get to school? Walk, Bike, Bus, Car Pool, Parent etc… Bus... my driver's name was Mrs. Barnacle
6.Did you carry a book bag, backpack or the like?I think it was also a Power Rangers backpack
7.Something you remember from that first year? Having to stay in from recess to clean my desk because it got too messy (now I am so organized that would never happen)