Tax stamps given for some purchases and collected at school for credits for something
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A visiting nurse at school checking for your vaccination scar. (Girls who had one on their thighs had to be checked in the cloakroom).
Speaking of cloakrooms, every classroom had one. They were great for soggy rain wear, mittens, and kids who misbehaved. One day one kid ate several other children's lunches while he was incarcerated there!
Remember Tom and Betty, Dick and Jane, and their dog named Flip?
Elementary schools without carpool lanes.
Lik-Em-Aid that turned your hands green and red.
Air raid drills.
Trying to decide how I was going to deal with being the outcast of the sophomore class because my mother thought that $16.99 for a pair of Weejuns sounded outrageous! She did relent and you actually couldn't wear those shoes out!