Things that would be completely un-PC today

[Tiffylv]

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[sonnyjane]

In second grade, we had a sleepover at the teacher's house before summer vacation.

 

[Tiffylv]

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[Southernmiss]

What wouldn't be un-PC today? My kids world is so sanitized compared to my growing up.

 

[CPanther95]

1) Me

2) 98.35% of the public.

3) The other 1.65% when they are only surrounded by close friends and family.

 

[lizabu]

When I was in kindergarten I was in the local newspaper. Under the picture they printed my name, grade, school, age and address.

 

[Chocolate Cake]

Our kindergarten teacher taught us this song, and at the end, we pulled on our eyes to make them slant. Yikes!

We sang it often for Song Time. It was a class favorite.


"I livey uppey in a teeny weeny housey


I livey uppey on the thirty-first floor


I do a washing


A very big a washing


Ruffles on the petticoats ten cent more


I like a chow-chow better than a bowwow


I like a little girl and she like a me


Way down in Hong Kong


A big a man a come along


He take my little girl from poor Chinese"

 

[ronandannette]

For years (in the 70's) a local evangelical church ran an after-school bible club at our public elementary school. A few of the kids actually went to that church, a few more of us were Catholic (the only two "faith choices" in our little farm community) and the vast majority came from non-religious homes. Absolutely every last kid went to that club though - it was a blast.

 

[Squirlz]

I lived in the country and we kids rode our bicycles around with our rifles and shotguns slung over our shoulders. And no helmets.

 

[Bec3b1g]

I lived in the country and we kids rode our bicycles around with our rifles and shotguns slung over our shoulders. And no helmets.

I grew up in a rural area and kids would hunt on their way to school and leave their rifles in their cars in the school parking lot.

 

[EMom]

Growing up, almost every home had a gun rack in the living room. Not a locked one, just a rack full of guns. The guns were probably loaded too. No one messed with them. When your father hunts and brings home deer, etc. to clean, you figure out early what "dead for good" means and usually learn a healthy respect for guns. Many of the male teens and men had gun racks in their trucks in the back window. Amazingly, no one ever messed with those either. I went on plenty of dates with guys who had back window gun racks, complete with guns. And there were plenty of trucks like that parked at the high school daily. No one shot anyone.

 

[mnrose]

When I was a kid in Minnesota in the 60's, our little public school (about 15-20 kids per grade) had "release" classes on Wednesday for maybe an hour. The bus would come and drive us around to one of the three churches in town, depending on your religion. We had religious instruction during that hour. I'm pretty sure this would not be allowed today! I still remember being scandalized when a new family moved to town and their kids DID NOT go to any church. Gasp. They stayed behind in the classroom while we all left.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

When I was a kid in Minnesota in the 60's, our little public school (about 15-20 kids per grade) had "release" classes on Wednesday for maybe an hour. The bus would come and drive us around to one of the three churches in town, depending on your religion. We had religious instruction during that hour. I'm pretty sure this would not be allowed today! I still remember being scandalized when a new family moved to town and their kids DID NOT go to any church. Gasp. They stayed behind in the classroom while we all left.

Well, it was allowed as recently as 2003 - all 3 of my kids did Release Time while in elementary school. The mobile classroom went to all the elementary schools in the district weekly. All participants got a Bible.

 

[aristocatz]

Our kindergarten teacher taught us this song, and at the end, we pulled on our eyes to make them slant. Yikes!

We sang it often for Song Time. It was a class favorite.


"I livey uppey in a teeny weeny housey


I livey uppey on the thirty-first floor


I do a washing


A very big a washing


Ruffles on the petticoats ten cent more


I like a chow-chow better than a bowwow


I like a little girl and she like a me


Way down in Hong Kong


A big a man a come along


He take my little girl from poor Chinese"

I was curious about the origin of this song, so I googled it:
http://everything2.com/title/I+sing+banned+Girl+Scout+songs

 

[Tiffylv]

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[tvguy]

I had a piece of sheet music that my piano teacher gave me as one of my first songs to learn when I was 7 back in 1964.
The song title includes an ethnic description and "boy".
It was first published in 1926 and you can buy a copy still on Amazon, but the title, and lyrics are very unPC.

 

[cijay]

A very old friend of mine's parents had their old home movies converted to digital. She showed me a very old movies of us in elementary school (early 90's) ...

Very old....nineties? You mean 1890s? How old is this very old friend? Just wondering.

I would say, very non- PC is mentioning anyone's race or colour at all. Not even being interested in their culture, where they or their parents were from and just enjoying there is such diversity in the world.
Awhile back, my girlfriend dropped in at the store I work at and I was in a meeting so didn't get to see her. When I got out of the meeting, my co-workers said that 'Crystal' was in to see me. I asked which Crystal as I know quite a few but they just shrugged and said that she just said her name was Crystal. The Crystals I know all look very different so they should be able to find SOME words to describe them without saying 'the fat one' 'the skinny one', 'the one with purple hair' or 'the pregnant one' but they couldn't. That night my girlfriend phoned and said she wanted to see me so she had stopped by the store.

Well...wouldn't it have been easier if they had said she was Chinese? Even Asian or Oriental? Next day I went to work and asked about Crystal "was she Chinese?" and they all said "yeah, that's her." Are we that afraid of mentioning race that they couldn't even tell me it was a Chinese lady who had come by? (The reason that she wasn't the first one who popped into my head is because I'm not used to her English name LOL.)

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I was curious about the origin of this song, so I googled it:
http://everything2.com/title/I+sing+banned+Girl+Scout+songs

I learned it a Girl Scout camp (about 50 years ago).

 

[bcla]

I took public transit (by myself) to school in the first grade and would stay at home after school. These days a kid might get placed in protective care for that.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Very old....nineties? You mean 1890s? How old is this very old friend? Just wondering.