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Do schools still have class rings, letter jackets, and hardbound printed yearbooks?
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Mar 30, 2021 03:34
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I don't remember exactly where, but I think we spent several pages on the topic earlier in the thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3899855&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=12#post502144974 starts here, though there's a few posts leading into it about the who's who of american high school students and some related weirdnesses hexwren fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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Mar 30, 2021 03:51
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doctorfrog posted:Do schools still have class rings, letter jackets, and hardbound printed yearbooks? yes jostens hustles for that class ring money harder every year because fewer and fewer kids go for it, but the other two are still very prominent.
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Mar 30, 2021 04:09
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I just googled it and I still don't fully understand what a "smartboard" is. It's just a big screen you can write on like a tablet, right? We didn't even have whiteboards when I was a lad.
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Mar 30, 2021 04:46
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It's just a board connected to an overhead projector. The board has some touch sensitivity sou you can write on it and such with software.
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Mar 30, 2021 04:53
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I just googled it and I still don't fully understand what a "smartboard" is. It's just a big screen you can write on like a tablet, right? Some are just giant tablets. Some are e-ink style drawing surfaces with special "marker" styluses.
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Mar 30, 2021 04:57
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Some of the styluses look extremely similar to permanent markers, ask me how I know.
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Mar 30, 2021 07:47
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Jazerus posted:jostens hustles for that class ring money harder every year because fewer and fewer kids go for it, but the other two are still very prominent. I generally enjoyed high school but even in 1991 I thought rings were a tremendous waste of money. I'm genuinely shocked that they're still a thing.
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Mar 30, 2021 12:27
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Cheesus posted:Jesus. I graduated in 1981 and got a cheap metal (Siladium!) ring for $95 (about $288 today). I still have it in a box somewhere. My classmates all got gold rings $300+ or $900 today) and most of them lost theirs within a year. I actually ordered mine from a local jeweler and got it long before the rest of the class who ordered from Jostens. Some didn't get theirs until the summer after graduation.
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Mar 30, 2021 12:35
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Joan posted:Oh. that is what I meant, yeah I gotta say, lol for unintentionally being super meta in this thread (I remember the other sort of overhead projector  )
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Mar 30, 2021 13:07
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My Lovely Horse posted:Some of the styluses look extremely similar to permanent markers, ask me how I know. In college (in the dark ages of 20 years ago), I attended classes in a brand new building that had just opened and had the walls painted with "whiteboard paint" where you could draw on the walls directly with erasable markers. Only the wall facing the class was painted that way. My calculus professor did not realize that and proceeded to draw a wall full of equations on a wall that could not be erased.
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Mar 30, 2021 13:59
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Letter jackets have fallen out of popularity. I tried to get my daughter one, but she wouldn’t go for it. Few kids at her school went for them. Same with class rings. I think coronavirus is going to kill some of these old standbys. Most were running on momentum anyway and now they’ve been interrupted for two years. Why do I need a yearbook to remember my classmates by when I’ve got their Instagrams? Used to be you graduated and immediately lost touch with 75% of your friends. Now you can easily watch them become shitheads on Facebook.
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Mar 30, 2021 15:23
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Do graduating high schoolers still get bombarded with those "who's who in American high school book" ads? I thought they were obviously a scam but filling out the form to get your name in them was free so I did that without buying any, thinking that some hiring manager somewhere might possibly see it and be influenced positively. Of course in retrospect I'm skeptical that has ever actually happened to anyone.
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Mar 30, 2021 15:50
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I remember thinking the class rings were weird because everyone just got whatever they wanted. There was no "standard" design for everyone in the class to have. Having a common ring was a tradition before right? Or was my school just kind of dumb?
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Mar 30, 2021 16:12
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Guy Axlerod posted:I remember thinking the class rings were weird because everyone just got whatever they wanted. There was no "standard" design for everyone in the class to have. Having a common ring was a tradition before right? Or was my school just kind of dumb? Most schools have a deal with Josten's or Balfour where they probably get kickbacks for pushing their overpriced crap.
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Mar 30, 2021 16:20
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Obviously I’m biased since I’m older. But, even if I disliked high school, I really liked having a leather bound yearbook with film black and white photos. I guess the idea of pictures looking old may change over the next few decades.
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Mar 30, 2021 16:56
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Cracker King posted:Obviously I’m biased since I’m older. I've long since lost my yearbooks. I didn't even get the last one because it was delayed quite a ways into the next year and I never bothered to go back and get it.
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Mar 30, 2021 17:13
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:I've long since lost my yearbooks. I didn't even get the last one because it was delayed quite a ways into the next year and I never bothered to go back and get it. The only reason I ever look at my yearbooks is to prove to people that I went to school with both Zac Efron and someone whose name was "Chewbacca Yoda Ramirez".
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Mar 30, 2021 17:38
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I graduated in 1998. I told my parents multiple times not to buy me a class ring, that I wouldn't wear it, didn't want it, didn't care about it, didn't want to remember high school, etc. They thought I would regret it or change my mind someday, and bought it anyway. 23 years later I can say that I was right, and I have no idea where it even is. I cannot even imagine a bitch so basic they would wear a high school class ring after graduation. In my experience the only people who are proud of what they did in high school or remember the actual school experience fondly are the people who peaked in high school. For everyone else, high school was at best an ambivalent experience and at worst the nadir of their adult lives from which everything afterward represented an improvement.
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Mar 30, 2021 17:49
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Krispy Wafer posted:Why do I need a yearbook to remember my classmates by when I’ve got their Instagrams? Used to be you graduated and immediately lost touch with 75% of your friends. Now you can easily watch them become shitheads on Facebook. A printed book is the ideal format for something you'll want to crack open maybe every five to ten years, when you get into an unusually nostalgic mood. It doesn't depend on any third party to keep maintaining the servers for decades. You don't need to keep track of any login credentials. You don't need to figure out how to read ancient computer media or file formats. It's complete, even including the people who were smart enough to stay the hell away from social media. It's been frozen in time, with no updates or new info to show you what shitheads everyone has become -- it's still just photos and some signatures of people that you vaguely recall, wishing you a kick-rear end summer. And if someday you decide to destroy it as a symbolic act of freeing yourself from the most miserable time in your life? Tossing a book into a bonfire is much more cathartic than removing some social media contacts.
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Mar 30, 2021 17:50
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I don't know if I still have my class ring. Really, it was good for a half day or something, so who cares. But I never had school pride or anything like that, and thought people who did were kind of weird. Granted, I went to a Catholic highschool, which I loving hated.
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Mar 30, 2021 17:57
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Class rings are not a thing here. Seems weird to me. Yearbooks are a bit of fun though. I still have mine.
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Mar 30, 2021 18:00
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It always struck me as a little odd that class rings aren’t pitched to freshmen instead of seniors. Like, I could see a bunch of fourteen year olds thinking it’s cool as gently caress to wear a class ring around, but by the time you’re a senior, chances are really good you’re actively planning your exit from caring about high school ever again.
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Mar 30, 2021 18:44
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Everyone used to LOVE yearbooks in the past. Beyond even High School. I’ve got my father’s 1968 Army basic training yearbook. Instead of stuff like marching band and drama you had activities like... I’ve also got my grandfather’s Lockheed employee yearbook. Guess what it’s full of? A bunch of identical looking White guys. 
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Mar 30, 2021 18:46
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High school mattered a lot more when fewer people went to college. I'm honestly surprised class rings have lasted this long, but I guess they're really marketed to parents.
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Mar 30, 2021 18:47
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Krispy Wafer posted:I’ve also got my grandfather’s Lockheed employee yearbook. Guess what it’s full of? A bunch of identical looking White guys.
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Mar 30, 2021 19:05
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My college ring (came from the local jeweler, not Jostens) was a flat gold signet with the college crest engraved on it. I still wear it, because signet rings are nifty, and because you don't know what it is unless you look very closely indeed.
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Mar 30, 2021 19:06
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I can hear them referring jovially to each other by last names and smoking in the office. "Morning, Pierce, haha! Is Pierce around yet?" "Haven't seen Pierce yet, Pierce!" "Well when you see Pierce, say Pierce said hello!" "Hahaha, I will!"
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Mar 30, 2021 19:16
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Imagined posted:I graduated in 1998. I told my parents multiple times not to buy me a class ring, that I wouldn't wear it, didn't want it, didn't care about it, didn't want to remember high school, etc. They thought I would regret it or change my mind someday, and bought it anyway. 23 years later I can say that I was right, and I have no idea where it even is. I cannot even imagine a bitch so basic they would wear a high school class ring after graduation. In my experience the only people who are proud of what they did in high school or remember the actual school experience fondly are the people who peaked in high school. For everyone else, high school was at best an ambivalent experience and at worst the nadir of their adult lives from which everything afterward represented an improvement. Same, except I'm like 5 years younger than you. My mother was insistent on it, to the point where I was getting in trouble for not selecting which extracurriculars I wanted on it.
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Mar 30, 2021 19:36
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I still have my yearbook from Basic Training in 1981. I don't have my high school yearbook.
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Mar 30, 2021 20:15
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MightyJoe36 posted:I still have my yearbook from Basic Training in 1981. I don't have my high school yearbook. drat dude, more like MightyJoe66.
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Mar 30, 2021 20:17
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I have a yearbook from my B.Ed but whoever put it together never bothered putting names in, so it's just rows of pictures of people, most of whom I didn't know at all unless I had classes with them.
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Mar 30, 2021 20:20
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I’m glad I have my yearbooks because every two or three years I’ll remember some weirdo and be like “that loving guy! God drat, what was his name again?”
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Mar 30, 2021 20:43
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Powered Descent posted:A printed book is the ideal format for something you'll want to crack open maybe every five to ten years, when you get into an unusually nostalgic mood. Yeah this but for photographs in general. If you want them to actually last, get them printed by a photo lab.
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Mar 30, 2021 21:13
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Never heard of high school rings. Only ever heard of rings for snobby-rear end colleges, and that was mainly for showing off/conversation piece. Or maybe it was one of the only acceptable ways for a man to wear jewelry. My high school was small enough that we never got contacted by anyone trying to sell us; my whole graduating class fit easily on the folded single-page program. Has anyone here ever seen a physical face book?
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Mar 31, 2021 04:58
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Krispy Wafer posted:When I figured out how to make my own transparencies I became a golden god (at presentations at least). I’m fairly young by SA standards (29, experienced plenty of overhead projectors in my life tho) and I used to sweet talk a bored high school librarian into doing all the physical labor of putting together my tri-fold poster boards; I assume those are basically extinct outside of, like, maybe science fairs, which could well be dead as well?
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Mar 31, 2021 05:48
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Cobalt-60 posted:Never heard of high school rings. Only ever heard of rings for snobby-rear end colleges, and that was mainly for showing off/conversation piece. Or maybe it was one of the only acceptable ways for a man to wear jewelry. My high school was small enough that we never got contacted by anyone trying to sell us; my whole graduating class fit easily on the folded single-page program. My wife went to a rural high school where the entire graduating class was 30 people. Meanwhile my high school had to use the local minor league sports arena for our graduation ceremony.
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Mar 31, 2021 14:30
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Cobalt-60 posted:Has anyone here ever seen a physical face book? However, I'm 61...
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Mar 31, 2021 16:02
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We got gently caress off sized rings at the Service Academies. Basically from large to Super Bowl ring sized.
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Mar 31, 2021 16:15
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Slimy Hog posted:The only reason I ever look at my yearbooks is to prove to people that I went to school with both Zac Efron and someone whose name was "Chewbacca Yoda Ramirez". Holy poo poo, that's awesome. What was he like? (Of course I'm referring to Chewbacca)
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Mar 31, 2021 16:18
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