If you were at school during the 1980’s then I’m sure you can recall things that happened that would never happen with our children now. For better or worse, they seemed like care-free and simpler times but let’s take a look at some of things we got up to that, as children, we would not experience now.
The tuck shop sold sweets and crisps every day. Doughnuts, iced buns and lardy cakes were totally acceptable forms of nutrition back in the 1980’s and 1990’s at school and yet there weren’t very many overweight kids! Possibly because we played British bulldog every playtime, at least, we did for 5 minutes before the bell rang due to spending most of playtime recruiting players! For information on Playgrounds Gloucester, take a look at Greenfields, suppliers of contemporary and safe Playgrounds Gloucester.
Teachers would randomly throw items across the room at anyone who dared speak out of turn, the one to be feared was the chalk rubber and boys would regularly be led off to the Headmaster’s Office by their ears.
Cycling proficiency was completed without helmets and visitors to the school could often be seen smoking. Things we perceived as normal back then just couldn’t even be imagined in today’s schools.
We were content with the blackboard and chalk whereas today’s classrooms all contain state of the art whiteboards or smartboards. A game on a computer would take forever to load onto a cassette whereas today’s children have instant access to a wealth of educational apps on school ipads.