Things that would be completely un-PC today

[anniemae]

I was tied to my chair when I was in 2nd grade because I wouldn't stay in it. Good times. Not.

Personally, I'm not getting any nostalgic "warm fuzzies" from anyone's un-PC posts. I'm happy there have been changes in our culture and IMO those changes are primarily for the best.

Me neither, some of these are making me cringe.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Oh we did something like this in Kindergarten. We would all stand in a line and sort of form a "tunnel" with our legs. The *lucky* birthday kid would get to crawl through and we would all get to swat them. It seem liked great fun but I was really glad I had a December 30 birthday and was always on break!

This was done in my school too. We called it going "under the mill". Mostly happened in elementary school on the playground at recess, but I clearly remember one time in Junior High, 7th or 8th grade, in gym class, when the teacher actually told all the kids to line up and do it, then stood by and laughed.

 

[kimblebee]

Most high schools still have smoking doors as far as I know. At least here they do..

 

[Gary M]

I'm much older than most on the DIS. When I was in grade school, we said the pledge of allegiance before the first class of the day. We put our right hand over our heart and faced the flag. I assume that isn't PC now.

We call the weather we are now having "Indian Summer". I would guess that isn't PC now.

I taught high school business for one year in '71-72. The teachers lounge was so full of smoke, you could barely see across the room. I know that isn't PC now. I never smoked.

 

[smiths02]

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of some Disney movies. Until Tiana, all the Disney leading ladies sat around waiting for their Prince to show up and carry them off into the sunset. None of them had any meaningful work--just cleaning stuff (and some didn't even do that much) and talking to their little animal friends. Snow White lives with 7 little men and treats them with some condescension, patting them and kissing them on the head like they were children. In Peter Pan you have the whole Injuns & Tiger Lily story that would NEVER be recorded today. Same with Lady & the Tramp's slant-eyed Siamese cats playing the piano with chopsticks and singing "We are Si-a-me-ese, if you ple-ease...meow". And how about Jungle Book's King Louis, the brassy jazz-singing orangutan, voiced by Louis Armstrong--stereotyping, much? And don't even get started on "Song of the South". That movie script would never even make it to the table today.

Agreed mostly except it wasn't Louis Armstrong. It was Louis Prima, from Italian descent.

 

[mamamary]

I was tied to my chair when I was in 2nd grade because I wouldn't stay in it. Good times. Not.

Personally, I'm not getting any nostalgic "warm fuzzies" from anyone's un-PC posts. I'm happy there have been changes in our culture and IMO those changes are primarily for the best.

In first grade I was moved to sit with the boys because of too much talking. I guess it was to embarrass me and I guess it worked because I still remember it. In second grade (nothing as bad as you got) we had to constantly stand with our arms outstretched. After a while it hurt so much but we had to keep doing it. Yep still remember that quite clearly.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I'm much older than most on the DIS. When I was in grade school, we said the pledge of allegiance before the first class of the day. We put our right hand over our heart and faced the flag. I assume that isn't PC now.

We call the weather we are now having "Indian Summer". I would guess that isn't PC now.

I taught high school business for one year in '71-72. The teachers lounge was so full of smoke, you could barely see across the room. I know that isn't PC now. I never smoked.

My daughter still says the pledge every morning - public school, "one nation, under God" version.

 

[JoeA]

If we didn't have enough kids to play backyard football then we'd just play "smear the queer". I'm guessing that's frowned on, today!

 

[robinb]

My daughter still says the pledge every morning - public school, "one nation, under God" version.

My DD's schools also say the Pledge every morning. Students have been known to omit or replace "under God" at their discretion. In fact, it is announced that we live in a land of freedom and no one is forced to stay the Pledge or even stand but they must be quiet and respectful of other's rights if they do not participate.

 

[castleview]

Let's see...the movie Blazing Saddle.
Catechism was held after school AT SCHOOL on Tuesdays and some of the school teachers were also catechism teachers
My dad was a HS guidance counselor in a lower to middle income high school and he actually drove kids to college interviews...not sure if that's a un-PC thing, but it would be a risky stupid thing to do these days.
Basketball was played during winter recess days in elementary school. Only boys could play basketball and girls could cheerlead. Hated that one!

 

[kamik86]

In first grade I was moved to sit with the boys because of too much talking. I guess it was to embarrass me and I guess it worked because I still remember it. In second grade (nothing as bad as you got) we had to constantly stand with our arms outstretched. After a while it hurt so much but we had to keep doing it. Yep still remember that quite clearly.

My older sister got moved surrounded by boys for talking to much. She then talked about baseball and hot wheels... my sister still says she doesn't get what the point of sitting her with the boys was supposed to be.

 

[AppleDumpling]

My daughter still says the pledge every morning - public school, "one nation, under God" version.

Pledge of Allegiance is still said here in all schools too. Besides students saying it every morning in the classroom, they also do it at public school functions, such as concerts, Board of Ed meetings and even at the HS graduation ceremony. Everyone in the audience is asked to stand and say the pledge. Guess I thought this was done in all American schools.

 

[wvjules]

All in the Family would never survive on TV.

I had a teacher that used a ruler to smack hands. And the same teacher (3rd grade) tied a student to his desk because he wouldn't sit still...ever!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

All in the Family would never survive on TV.

I don't agree. That was a satire.

 

[smiths02]

In high school, in the 90s, everything was "gay" as a put down. And my group of friends had gay people or friends and family that were gay...we didn't really harbor ill will towards gay people, it was just an expression that we used. At some point in high school, we started realizing that was insulting.

I worked in a daycare about 15 years ago, and they had the One little, two little three little Indian song...I pointed out that might be a problem, so someone changed Indian to Native American. I still thought that was uncomfortable.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Gender-specific classes in school. Back in my day, girls were required to take 2 years of Home Ec, where we learned to cook and sew. The boys took "shop", aka Industrial Arts, where they got to do cool woodworking projects and learn basic auto maintenance. You were not allowed to take classes intended for the opposite gender. Now, all kids take a version of each of these in middle school and can take any additional electives they want in MS/HS.

 

[yoopermom]

DH54 had(has) an undiagnosed learning disability. What happened to him in school, in the 70s, would never fly now, THANK GOD. I'm sure the teachers and admin just thought he was a stupid troublemaker, and that they could beat it out of him. His most horrifying memory, though, was of his 2nd grade teacher taking him into a bathroom(!) and taking a pinbrush to his hair! Ripping through it right down to the roots. What makes me the most ill was that his parents tolerated it, and never let him speak ill of anything that happened at school.

We had a spinster schoolmarm type of music teacher in elementary school who had us sing what now would be considered every politically incorrect song in the book (quite literally).

Then we'd go to "Sambo's" for lunch, and, if we were lucky, would get a table next to the mural on the wall showing Sambo and the panther running around the tree....

Terri

 

[BrianL]

I don't agree. That was a satire.

I agree, but it would probably be on a cable channel as opposed to broadcast. That's where all the best stuff is these days anyway.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Gender-specific classes in school. Back in my day, girls were required to take 2 years of Home Ec, where we learned to cook and sew. The boys took "shop", aka Industrial Arts, where they got to do cool woodworking projects and learn basic auto maintenance. You were not allowed to take classes intended for the opposite gender. Now, all kids take a version of each of these in middle school and can take any additional electives they want in MS/HS.

Hmmm... interesting. When I was in high school (50 years ago) you could take whatever class you wanted. Of course I attended school in the San Francisco Bay area, so maybe things were more flexible there.

We had no such options in (what was then called ) Jr High.

 

[RedHatDisney]

My grandsons have said The Pledge every day. Assemblies and performances begin with The Pledge.