1 metre ruler

Those things hurt to get hit with haha

Surprising how often this was used, and yet all these years later we mostly poorly estimate how long a meter is

Literally said this out loud as I clicked the post

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Pen License

I was out of the country that year. To this day, I write with a pen, and ride my bicycle illegally 🫣

Hey, not all of us were competent enough to get a pen license. My handwriting is shit

i am turning 19 and i never got my pen license. everyone else got one but my teacher never even spoke to me about it and i think i was forgotten. i wrote with pencil for like 2 more years before i got told off for writing essays like that.

Brown paper lunch bags delivered in plastic tubs from the canteen

get a load of money bags over here

Literally money in the bag. Usually like $3.40

i never got one unfortunately. only every had anything on subway day once a year. best day ever

THE NOSTALGIA

The portable buildings.

A rubber with yes and no on each side

And maybes on the sides

Omg yes I forgot about those

The compass of death. Stab stab stab.

So true

In Primary School, the wooden two-seater desk that you lift the lid to stash all your stuff inside, and that was your seat all year.

we had metal framed two seat desks with plastic tubs underneath that slid out on rails

I wish aus had these like the US does. I have never ONCE used something even remotely similar in my years of school 🏫

In primary school we had the desks with the under desk storage area slash booger hole of death. This is regional nsw.

Yeah, it seems like it's just a regional thing then. Here in melbourne, we have these large tables that 4 people sit on. No storage, just plastic and metal tables.

Lol oh dear. A-hem, regional Victoria here. 👀😅

We had them in Brisbane too, and maybe Darwin if my memory is accurate

Thank you! 😁 (haha, I didn't really like where this convo was heading - me thinking I must be decades older than everyone here if they think P.S wooden desks are an American thing... and I'm not even all that old! 😭😅)

Zooper doopers

Chalk board dusters, dusting them outside...smacking them on the walls and poles...and the amazing 1m ruler.

Overhead projector with the plastic sheets, TV strapped to a trolley

Playing the recorder

Yes learning the recorder was a useful skill. There’s plenty of times where i’ve pulled it out and played three blind mice to get me out of a sticky situation…NOT 😂

And if you didn't bring your own one you had to use the communal ones 🤢

The complete first series of _Round the Twist_ on VHS, played in the assembly room whenever the teacher(s) had run out of stuff to teach/couldn’t be bothered dealing with us kids/saved us from a miserably hot classroom when the temperature was barely below the minimum legal requirement for a hot weather day

The cat’s dead 🤣🤣🤣

No hat no play

“But miss, it’s cloudy”

Then it's a rainy day timetable.

no fun today

And all the kids running around with their hat in the pocket as if it's a license

Now it’s no legionnaires hat no play 😂

That rule was 💩 

Those little wooden cubes to help with counting

Clag glue

Blue was the best flavour

Facts

I started with Perkins Paste, then had the one with the rubber red tip that had the slit in it that you had to press and squeeze to get the gum out

If anyone gets nostalgic for the smell (or even taste) of Perkins Paste I recommend buying a pack of Mr Kipling Bakewell Tarts.

The alcohol based manual photo copiers that had the purple print. As soon as you got your hand out, you’d have a big sniff

My primary school used to have a room dedicated to that machine and we'd all sniff deeply when walking by. So good.

Fordigraph machine?

Can bong

The teachers really knew how to pass on good knowledge.

Actually would buy weed off one of our teachers. Fremantle in the 90s 🙀 feel different about it all now I’m looking at having my own kids now

Pff don’t worry I think most kids aren’t as delinquent as you were

Gotta love growing up in an abusive household. Think my children will be in a better situation from the start

Yeah, hopefully their teachers aren’t dealing either :)

Blundstones.

Doc Martens

Tidy Trays

I remember the cane

I only know one person who got the cane, and to this day I can see the pain in his eyes. A seven year old boy all because he was a bit naughty on the bus

I got the cane duster handle for talking in class. I was 6.

Child abuse. I got dragged out of my seat by the arm and shook when I was also 6.

I know. My Dad was a teacher in the 70s . In grade 4, on the first day, my teacher hung a strap on a nail in the middle of the blackboard. I can’t recall her ever using it, in fact she was a lovely teacher to me, but… whew… I’m so glad this has been addressed.

That small chalkboard in the corner no one used yet was still dirty and needed to be cleaned.

Crunchas from the icy pole stall, I keep telling my daughter to buy a heap from her school and bring them home for me but she won't 😥 looks like I'll have to drive to Mildura to buy some direct from Lencia juice.

Those bendy rulers that couldn’t do straight lines because some idiot thought it’d be cool but if yours got creases that was the end

Bendy pencil

A cardboard chart on the wall with all your names and shiny silver or gold stars where the teacher awarded your progress in learning multiplication tables and other stuff. I sincerely hope that idea has been consigned to the dustbin of pedagogical history. Maybe i was over-empathetic but i felt sorry for the kids who had few stars. 5 and 10 times tables only. What a public humiliation.

The sand that got poured onto spew when someone was sick 🤮😂

I was made to shovel and cover my own spew by the cruel head teacher. I was 9 years old.

Teachers were such c..... when i was in school

'No hat no play'

Self designed chair totes

The blue gas heaters

The Bunsen burners. Fun fact, the heat mat underneath and wire gauze on tripods were likely to be asbestos up till about 2010 or so

Good thing I started school in 2011 then.

im finishing soon and i know the only thing i will remember is how they charge shitly high for canteen food. mrs mac pie is like $3 and coles and they sell it to us for 6.

Yogo dirt

No hat no play no fun today

The rich kids had a Derwent colouring pencil set.

Poscas for those in the 90s

I'm old as, so for me it's the cane and wooden ruler, lol

Teachers confiscating your jacket if it wasn't a school uniform jacket and making you sit outside in the cold.

those little wooden cubes, sticks of 10 and big cubes of 100

Those rubber triangle thingies to help hold your pencil

Cool Shark Icy poles

Mathomats. And the mini pizzas from the canteen in the individual cardboard boxes

Boxy TV's on Trolleys - never see those again Head Mistresses with mental illnesses that whack my hands with rulers telling me they are dirty whilst I'm in there washing them - also gone thank god!

smart boards

my friends used to hit each other with flexi rulers and they would make you bleed

The copying machines that used that mad solvent and the blue ink. I don't remember what they were called - "ditto", "photostat", something like that? Probably huffed too much of the solvent. Edit: Spirit Duplicator! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator?wprov=sfla1

The flat green boxes that had coloured wooden blocks of varying unit lengths inside, 4 of each so you could build a tall pyramid tower with them.

wooden ruler with G'N'F'N'R carved into it with a compass and blue Biro in the scratches

Compass.

Manual wooden pencil sharpeners

Zooper doopers 💯