What were classrooms like in the 1950-60s elementary schools?

Wanna hear from people who were actually in one.

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Duck and cover drills were fairly common in my school. And since we were in San Francisco, all the kids wore metal dogtags with name, address and blood type. I found mine in an old jewelry box recently.

monte3 · 70-79, M

We didn’t have the drill, we lived I an area so rural we knew the Russkies weren’t going to waste a bomb on us. We would have to wait for the radiation to kill us. @bijouxbroussard

bijouxbroussard · F

@monte3 Lol, that was before we realized that being under desks would’ve only meant neater piles of ashes.
Our dogtags were from the Cold War, too. Ours was among the last cities to implement them. They started that in 1952, but I got mine in 1964.