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[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

inhales

BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!

[–] MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!

[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago

Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the science Guy!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (9 children)

My middle school was a stupid place that looked like a prison on the outside, but on the inside, the classrooms had no back walls and were separated by accordion dividers. Occasionally, they would open up the dividers and show the whole three-classroom block a video on three of those carts all chained to one VCR.

The one I remember was on a fun day where we all got to watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, which had just come out on video. They fast-forwarded through Napoleon's, "Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde!" being translated as, "Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!" in the subtitles, but we could all see it and we were all like 13, so it was pretty funny.

Here is the school. It still exists. Batchelor Middle School in Bloomington, Indiana. I hear the inside has been renovated and there are now actual walls.

And I'm not exaggerating when I said it looks like a prison. It's not the most comforting sight the first time you go.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, as far as brutalist architecture goes, that one's not too bad. I kinda like it, especially the cantilevers.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that's brutalism done right.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

My school’s bus, which was used only for sporting events and trips, was an actual prison bus. It still had restraint attachment points and the bars on the windows.

It was brilliant for psyching out the other football teams.

[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My elementary school was an old Timex watch factory. It was a "temporary" building that ended up lasting 13 years. The only windows in the building were in the office and kindergarten wing. Last I checked, which was over a decade ago, the building had been turned into a firefighter training course.

So, school being a prison? All I have to do is remember my elementary school days.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This is obviously not that bad, but there was a continuous rumor going around the school that it was going to be a women's prison but they decided to make it a school instead.

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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I went to a similar looking middle school, but each grade was in one giant room probably the size of a gym. No class had an actual wall unless it was on the edge. Probably 10-11 classes in each big room for the grade. The only dividers between classes were like rolling bulletin boards and maybe a metal cabinet or two. I couldn't imagine having to teach in those conditions because it always was pretty noisy.

I also remember the school's gym had a full locker room with showers but students weren't allowed to use the showers and none of the bathrooms in the school had stall doors. And the stalls were those short ones were your head was higher than the top of the wall. It was super weird.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I don't get the idea. Prison on the outside, anarchy on the inside. Who came up with that concept?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

1970s build?

Windows are terrible at efficiency. Yes, even modern ones with three panes and filled with argon. A building with minimal windows is generally going to have better thermal efficiency than one with lots of them, and that started to be really important during the 1970s oil crisis. The result was a bunch of schools like this that look like prisons.

If you get some local mural artists to paint the concrete in bright, whimsical images, it fixes a lot.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Only problem is that the paint fades eventually, and if no one cares to redo it it'll end up looking like those sad old fading Soviet murals.

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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh shit hexxus waddup

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“You can never go back. YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!”

[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

oh my god yes

i thought Scarface's name was Carface when I was little and obsessed with this. had a stuffed animal named Mr Carface (I obviously couldn't 'steal' the name Carface, I had to be original) that would watch the movie with me all the time. 16 years later and I still have them lol

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's the 6th grade. The girls are taken to the gym for a presentation about menstruation. Us boys are put in a room with this cart to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Or some shit about shop class.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

First grade, they piled all the classes together, because it's 1993 and we only have one laserdisc player, and we need to watch a video on pollution. Main topics were acid rain and smog and that shit has been with me for 30 years, I will never forget it.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

As a kid, I enjoyed seeing teachers struggle with those.

Now as a parent, I got to see teachers struggle with a beamer, same joy!

[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Watching the teacher get irritated.

Casio CMD-30B

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I still have one of those somewhere!

[–] smokebuddy 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In class it was always

  • Shrek
  • Shrek 2
  • Remember the Titans
  • Jurassic Park
  • Any Rando Jim Carrey Movie

Although in grade 9 law class we got to watch Heat, Dirty Harry and My Cousin Vinny, that teacher was cool

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You got to see real movies? All we ever got was, like, PBS Nova episodes or A&E documentaries. No worksheets; but I got to learn about Ray fuckin' Kroc years before they made a movie about him.

[–] smokebuddy 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah we had those too. I totally forgot about A&E, those tapes were around for sure. And a lot of stuff from the National Film Board, I think the schools in Canada got that stuff for free or something.

Butting into your conversation to leave a wee link for any film lovers scrolling by. The NFB's a public producer and distributor, and the catalogue's free for everyone.

You need a license to use it in class or have a public showing, but you're right - many schools have that already set up. Buying DVDs for the classroom will cost you, though.

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I watched a VHS dupe my father had made of this so many times. I don't think I've ever seen the proper cover art of it.

'See you later, navigator!'

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Beauty and the Beast.

But it's Spanish class. So La bella y la bestia.

Señora Lopez has a hangover and she just ain't doin shit today.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm sure somebody had to watch that. Not me, but somebody.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Probably DS9 on repeat. Nothing hits the spot like hopeful 90's Star Trek.

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[–] londos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Voyage of the Mimi

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

"Only 90s kids will get it"

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The first thing that came to mind (assuming this is being wheeled into my classroom) was that 90s birthing video they used to show in sex ed. It culminated in them showing the baby's birth; though the poor thing probably got rug burn coming out.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Depending on the year/grade, could be Harriet's Magic Hats, could be Brave Little Toaster, could be creationist propaganda.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact about me, the first time I watched the original Star Wars trilogy was in high school. My teacher didn't really want to teach us anything, so he put on episodes 4, 5, and 6 over the course of a few days.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Late 90s Chicago, I don't recall this happening much, but I did have a social studies teacher in 7th grade that let kids take their lunch period in her classroom and the AV cart would usually be tuned in to the Maury Provich show.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

With what happened in the US .... they wheel in the big ol' CRT to the front of the class where I'm sitting, the strap breaks and the 150 lb 36" behemoth lands on top of me.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Oh man, a friend and I were the AV crew for a while in high school in the late 90s. Basically we’d deliver these TV & VCR wheeled stands to the teachers needing them in the morning. If there wasn’t any need, we got to hang out in the equipment room instead of home room.

We got to use the elevators and even wield “the key ring” from time to time.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We had Monty python's life of Brian. The teacher forgot he already played it for our class once. Nobody mentioned that to him.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

He did ask. But I think indeed it was a win-win situation

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is being wheeled in to our geography class because the main teacher is sick. It's gonna be Jurassic Park.

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