School Days.

[Cyrano]

My high schol chemistry class had a student who was accident prone. Unfortunatly he was across the table from me which was not a good place for me to be. He also had the habit of using more of the ingredients than the instructions called for. I remember once we were making iodine in a beaker, and directing it on a glass container full of ice to condense the iodine. Instead of using a glass tube for this, he used a solid rod. The pressure built up in his beaker until it blew the cork out and iodine gas came pouring out. A passer by would have seen the whole class leaning out the open windows with purple gas billowing out above us. I've never been bothered with goiter since.

 

[FreedomRocks]

Back in the day when guns "were" aloud on campus - we didn't worry about them. 1977 My High School's rifle club on campus taking their yearbook photo. This would send todays schools into lock down, and a visit by SWAT.
No, I was not in the club. I would not be caught dead in those hideous shooting jackets. Never heard of a gun being used to commit a violent act on campus back them. An occasional switchblade, throwing stars made popular by the TV show Kung Fu, or a cake-cutter carried by those with afros would sometimes be taken away, but we were not worried about a kid bringing a gun to school for evil purposes. Just the gun club students or once in awhile a hunting rifle in a gun rack of a car in the school parking lot.

 

[Harleystoo]

Memory Lane.

Graduated HS 1974; no adolescent destruction. Took auto mechanics my last two years, which allowed us to leave campus to go pick up parts at the store or go to a junk yard to pull them. During these "parts runs", there was always a visit to the LGS. The Jr ROTC rifle team had real .22s and the HS armory had real M14s. Took my AR15 to school once to give a class on what was being used in 'Nam. We never shot anybody, nor had any thoughts of doing so.

Since then, the dummercrats have created the Dept of Education, and we know what that's produced in children.

 

[M E Morrison]

The thing that impressed in High School Me to this day was in the first day of Shop Class,The Teacher walks in and sets a 2x4 on two Stools and then Karate Chops it in half.Then He starts the Class.Nobody ever fooled around in that Class the entire year.
This Guy was a Third Degree Black Belt but also was the nicest Person You could ever meet,Years later We ran into Him and He told Us that He did that with every new Class because it sent the tough Guys a message that He was tougher than They were.

His name wasn't Lou Vesco, was it? I had a shop teacher like that & the message was loud and clear !!!!

 

[LouisianaJoe]

Charlie's and my father graduated High School Valedictorian. The local newspaper had a article about that next to an article that reported that he had been arrested for malicious mischief.

He liked to play little tricks on his friends. One thing that he did was hang a stick by a string close to a friends window. When the wind blew, the stick tapped on the window.

A friend of his ran a LGS when I was a teenager. He said that my father picked him up the night before his deployment for WWII. My father bought a bottle of Jack Daniels and took the top off and threw it out the car window. His friend said that he knew that was a commitment!