Every morning in school (1950s), we sang "My country, tis a bee, sweet land of liberty, of DIC..." Although I didn't know what DIC meant, the rest made sense...after all, didn't we learn that this was a land of milk and honey? I had no idea I had the words wrong until about the 4th or 5th grade when I finally saw the words in print.
Another special memory of school in the 50s was air raid drills. The school's alarms would ring and we would file out of class, down to the basement, and sit cross-legged on the floor facing the lockers with one forearm over our eyes and the other over the back of our neck...or take the same position under our desks...
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber
- I use to believe that teachers would live at school and sleep under there desks :) lol— Stephanie
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean!