Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
PurpleButterfly
Nov 5, 2012
Good question. I had subscriptions to both it and Highlights for Children for much of my childhood.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

PurpleButterfly
Nov 5, 2012

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

If you're going to be in an area with no cell phone reception you can plan for that and save a map of an area for offline access in Google Maps. It has saved my rear end quite a few times.

:same: And this can be done with directions, too. I currently have the top half of one home screen on my phone covered with offline directions saved from Google Maps, which were put there to support summer road trips.

PurpleButterfly
Nov 5, 2012

Imagined posted:

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.

Same. The ceremony at the end of my freshman year was at our local minor-league baseball stadium (I was in band, we played the ceremony). After that, it moved to our local community college's football stadium until we finally got our own football stadium some time after I graduated.

Back at my parents' house are 3 (I think) high school yearbooks, a high school class ring and letter jacket, and 1 university yearbook. (I'm a sucker for rituals and ceremonies.)

PurpleButterfly
Nov 5, 2012

Blue Moonlight posted:

Not sure how other schools handled it, but mine had the teacher take attendance every period. So they’d schedule the rally :15 into a class period, take attendance in the classroom, and that teacher would escort students to the rally, seating them in a section where they’d take another attendance.

Same at my ~3000-student high school. I was also a band kid, so I played for several of them.

I was never forced to watch one of the "Every 15 Minutes" anti-drunk-driving events, but I think we did have one at some point.

PurpleButterfly
Nov 5, 2012

Arivia posted:

what the absolute loving hell did they put you through in american school

no wonder active shooter drills don't faze you, with all this poo poo to get you primed first

Oh, this was back in the days before active shooter drills. We only had drills for fires and earthquakes (I lived in California). It's devastating to me that anyone who went through school after me had to deal with gunfire being a real threat, and having to try to prepare for it.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

PurpleButterfly
Nov 5, 2012

Domus posted:

We even had a stupid song about being the smoke-free class of 2000, two triple zero, everyone’s a hero.

:hfive: I remember that song from elementary school, too! I'd forgotten those next two pieces of the lyrics until just now.. We had both this module and DARE. (Fun fact,, I was in the elementary school's class of 1998, but the junior high school's class of 2000.)

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply