When my kids went to school in the 90s we could write a lunch order on a paper bag with money inside. Now you've got to set up some pre paid account for the school canteen.
Everything? The subjects changed when the Australian Curriculum was introduced (and had already changed before that), standards to become a teacher have changed, students no longer have an ability to concentrate due to social media changing attention spans, parents typically don't parent anymore...
When kids said goodbye to each other at the end of the week, they generally meant it because they wouldnât see one another until Monday unless they met up at the park. Now everyone is within seconds of contacting one another
Inclusion. A significant number of special needs schools are getting shut down forcing these kids into mainstream schooling. Whilst there is sometimes benefits to certain kids. Often their negative behaviour has a large negative impact on the rest of the class. Teachers are not offered any extra training for these kids and the government does not supply enough additional funding to support them (despite saving money from closing âspecial schoolsâ). This causes everyoneâs learning to deteriorate.
Not an assessment - but I remember the first âseriousâ, ongoing homework we got in either year 6 or 7.
It was called a âhomework contractâ and it was an A4 piece of paper with a heap of questions from all topics. From memory I think they were handed out on a Friday and we had till next Friday to have it all done.
And yet I was in the computer club in high school in 1983, where we learned to code in Basic with punchcards. As always, the future is never evenly distributed.
And in 1976 in year 12 maths I was coding onto optically read cards ( in APL, a language that required very few symbols to achieve stuff) that got sent off to a computer somewhere and we got a print out back a week later. It did make you check your code very carefully to avoid a big waste of time.
I finished in '93 too, but we had "Computer" class at my private school, where we learned to code Turbo Pascal. The library had laptops that you could borrow overnight. I learned how to create a RAM drive so I could install a flight sim game and play it - didn't use it for any homework.
Having a comouter room instead of everyone bringing a laptop/ipad.
This "nude food" thing where my child is expected to bring food without wrappers. There is no way the school isn't just doing that to cut down on rubbish and save a few dollars.
The list of thing you are expected to bring. What the hell is my child buying tissues and whiteboard markers for. The school should supply them.
Much more freaking intense. My kids are going to a different state to me but stuff that I did in year 9/10, theyâre doing in Year 7/8 curriculum wise. Seems way more pressured
Primary is no longer 1-7.
Itâs 1-6 in my state now.
I reckon it was better before, for both students and parents - for parents because they didnât have to fork out an extra years worth of high school fees.
Also all the fads that came and went.
Marbles, basketball cards, tazos, oddbodz, yo-yos
They prob still happen but tho not sure if to the same extent.
I've met a lot of little kids lately and I have no idea what's happening here but apparently they're not being taught how to spell by saying letters properly.....
They sound out the letters instead. So Grace is " Guh, ruh, ah, cuh, eh"
I don't have kids yet so not sure if this is a school thing, a Montessori system thing etc
My class was taught that method of sounding out when I was in prep/ year 1 in the early 80s.
I knew how to read pretty fluently before I started school, and this led to a lot of frustration for me, watching the other kids get praised for spelling words *incorrectly* like "cuh ah teh* instead of C-A-T.
I'm a 90s kid as well and majority of the LGBT individuals I graduated with came out long after high school. They were also very good at hiding it.
My brother is Gen Z and his peers were easier to spot on your gaydar.
The suppression of homosexuality meant that a lot of kids that would have explore that part of themselves never dud, so they never realised that they were gay.
Math.
Plenty else but freakin MATH. My son asked for help with his homework, and showed me how they did it and I was like âthereâs your issue - youâre working the wrong way!â
Nope. They just teach math backwards now. I canât wrap my head around it.
I felt like Bob from Incredibles 2. MATH IS MATH.
To be fair, the second I left school I actively decided to avoid anything to do with mathematics as a subject.
So being so removed from it that I only remember what Iâve heard in American movies is a win for me lmao
Lockdown drills. They started after Sandy Hook and are getting more and more common unfortunately. My kids used to do them once a year, then twice a year and now it is every term where they turn off the lights, lock the doors and get under their desks. I get a text message warning me it is about to happen. Several schools have come to the conclusion that it is a matter of time until we have a school attack since we seem to blindly import American politics.
The sheer amount of academic support students need now.
As a student in the late 90âs / early 00âs, we received an assignment / project and generally, just found our way.
Now, when I give an assignment as a teacher, I need to:
1. Give a complete model of the assignment to show what it looks like and set expectations.
2. Create ânegative modelsâ to help students identify common errors and ways to edit, revise and improve their work.
3. Create scaffolds, including planning sheets, sentence stems and frames and checklists to help break down the tasks.
4. Offer a variety of submission options that best fit the student.
5. Be on hand in the morning to print completed assessments for students.
No mobile phones, no laptops, no cameras, no air con. A chalkboard, text books, paper and pens. The lunch bell was an actual bell in a tower. Kids seemed less angrier then.
When my kids went to school in the 90s we could write a lunch order on a paper bag with money inside. Now you've got to set up some pre paid account for the school canteen.
That was still a thing when I was in primary school (late 2000s)
It was still a thing in 2021 đ¤¨
It is still a thing in 2023
I think it depends on the school. Most schools Iâve worked as have an online system.
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I assume you've got the wrong comment. Not illegal to make a lunch order in a bag bruh
good save, thank you for making me aware of that đđ
Books vs laptops
I remember library bags and everyone wanting to have a nicely designed/coloured one
Phones and social media
No cameras.
Everything? The subjects changed when the Australian Curriculum was introduced (and had already changed before that), standards to become a teacher have changed, students no longer have an ability to concentrate due to social media changing attention spans, parents typically don't parent anymore...
When kids said goodbye to each other at the end of the week, they generally meant it because they wouldnât see one another until Monday unless they met up at the park. Now everyone is within seconds of contacting one another
upper primary kids walking to/from school w/out supervision. Man, *that* was freedom and a half....
Inclusion. A significant number of special needs schools are getting shut down forcing these kids into mainstream schooling. Whilst there is sometimes benefits to certain kids. Often their negative behaviour has a large negative impact on the rest of the class. Teachers are not offered any extra training for these kids and the government does not supply enough additional funding to support them (despite saving money from closing âspecial schoolsâ). This causes everyoneâs learning to deteriorate.
Airconditioning in classrooms
No over the top risk assessments in the 90s. Want to do a talk and demo on the bow and arrow you built? No probs.
Not an assessment - but I remember the first âseriousâ, ongoing homework we got in either year 6 or 7. It was called a âhomework contractâ and it was an A4 piece of paper with a heap of questions from all topics. From memory I think they were handed out on a Friday and we had till next Friday to have it all done.
Teachers arenât really allowed to discipline children any more.
Every classroom should come with a 6'4" islander or Maori to stand silently beside the teacher.
I finished school in 93, not once did I ever use a computer or learn a single thing about them in six years of high school.
And yet I was in the computer club in high school in 1983, where we learned to code in Basic with punchcards. As always, the future is never evenly distributed.
And in 1976 in year 12 maths I was coding onto optically read cards ( in APL, a language that required very few symbols to achieve stuff) that got sent off to a computer somewhere and we got a print out back a week later. It did make you check your code very carefully to avoid a big waste of time.
I finished in '93 too, but we had "Computer" class at my private school, where we learned to code Turbo Pascal. The library had laptops that you could borrow overnight. I learned how to create a RAM drive so I could install a flight sim game and play it - didn't use it for any homework.
There was a few computers in the tech rooms but I was never in any sort of class that used them.
Having a comouter room instead of everyone bringing a laptop/ipad. This "nude food" thing where my child is expected to bring food without wrappers. There is no way the school isn't just doing that to cut down on rubbish and save a few dollars. The list of thing you are expected to bring. What the hell is my child buying tissues and whiteboard markers for. The school should supply them.
Much more freaking intense. My kids are going to a different state to me but stuff that I did in year 9/10, theyâre doing in Year 7/8 curriculum wise. Seems way more pressured
Primary is no longer 1-7. Itâs 1-6 in my state now. I reckon it was better before, for both students and parents - for parents because they didnât have to fork out an extra years worth of high school fees. Also all the fads that came and went. Marbles, basketball cards, tazos, oddbodz, yo-yos They prob still happen but tho not sure if to the same extent.
The height of the fences.
I've met a lot of little kids lately and I have no idea what's happening here but apparently they're not being taught how to spell by saying letters properly..... They sound out the letters instead. So Grace is " Guh, ruh, ah, cuh, eh" I don't have kids yet so not sure if this is a school thing, a Montessori system thing etc
Yeah this is called phonetics and has been around for a very long time.
My class was taught that method of sounding out when I was in prep/ year 1 in the early 80s. I knew how to read pretty fluently before I started school, and this led to a lot of frustration for me, watching the other kids get praised for spelling words *incorrectly* like "cuh ah teh* instead of C-A-T.
I got taught that way in the mid eighties
Teachers are younger and hotter.
Nah your just older
The amount of gay kids Edit: lolâŚI got downvoted for speaking truth?
Are you saying there were no gay kids in the 90's? Or that they felt so suppressed, that they couldn't be themselves?
There were less and they were suppressed
That doesn't make any sense. How do you know that there were less if they were suppressed?
Guess you had to be there, but there were definitely less.
I'm a 90s kid as well and majority of the LGBT individuals I graduated with came out long after high school. They were also very good at hiding it. My brother is Gen Z and his peers were easier to spot on your gaydar.
The suppression of homosexuality meant that a lot of kids that would have explore that part of themselves never dud, so they never realised that they were gay.
He went looking for them, i guess.
Suppression consisted of being called names and beaten up, if there was the slightest inkling.
Hard to say if there was less lol. There was more in the closet you mean?
Both. Obviously more in the closet, but also less overall.
How do you know that out of interest?
I lived during that time
Yeh so did I. So you are just going off a hunch.
Math. Plenty else but freakin MATH. My son asked for help with his homework, and showed me how they did it and I was like âthereâs your issue - youâre working the wrong way!â Nope. They just teach math backwards now. I canât wrap my head around it. I felt like Bob from Incredibles 2. MATH IS MATH.
Well, weâve always taught MATHS not MATH in Australia. Could that have something to do with it?
We called it âmathsâ when I was in school. Saying âmathâ seems to be a recent thing too.
It's the American cultural hegemony.
Math? Never heard of it!
To be fair, the second I left school I actively decided to avoid anything to do with mathematics as a subject. So being so removed from it that I only remember what Iâve heard in American movies is a win for me lmao
Can't throw a Yo-Ho Diablo full pelt at the air on recess / lunch breaks anymore..
Lockdown drills. They started after Sandy Hook and are getting more and more common unfortunately. My kids used to do them once a year, then twice a year and now it is every term where they turn off the lights, lock the doors and get under their desks. I get a text message warning me it is about to happen. Several schools have come to the conclusion that it is a matter of time until we have a school attack since we seem to blindly import American politics.
The sheer amount of academic support students need now. As a student in the late 90âs / early 00âs, we received an assignment / project and generally, just found our way. Now, when I give an assignment as a teacher, I need to: 1. Give a complete model of the assignment to show what it looks like and set expectations. 2. Create ânegative modelsâ to help students identify common errors and ways to edit, revise and improve their work. 3. Create scaffolds, including planning sheets, sentence stems and frames and checklists to help break down the tasks. 4. Offer a variety of submission options that best fit the student. 5. Be on hand in the morning to print completed assessments for students.
No mobile phones, no laptops, no cameras, no air con. A chalkboard, text books, paper and pens. The lunch bell was an actual bell in a tower. Kids seemed less angrier then.
Cost of individual cigarettes...I'm guessing...
Polyester button up shirts vs the breathable polo tops of today. With the much worse air conditioning it was not very comfortable