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35 Common Things We Used In School Which May Be Considered Vintage Now

If you ever monitor your kindergarten kids’ homework, you may think that it seems quite different to your own experiences at that same age. Nowadays kids have access to smart boards, new strategies for problem solving and other unusual tools for tackling academic challenges.

But while the world changes, we take a look back at all the little aides used by schools during our own formative years to consider whether the current situation is truly progressive or whether it’s a form of regression instead. Scroll to throwback to some of the most nostalgic items from our past schooldays, shared in the gallery below.

#1 My Mom Was Just Giving This Away

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#2 Stabbing Your Eraser When Bored

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#3 Elementary School Paper

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I can smell this image, as well as the pencils we were given to use

#4 Scholastic Book Fair…best Week Of The School Year

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#5 Card Catalog – When I Was In School And Needed Google. My Only Option Was To Go To The Library

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#6 Old School Fidget Spinner

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#7 These TV Carts Always Meant Class Was Going To Be Fun When The Teacher Rolled One In

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#8 Making These Paper Chains At School For Chistmas Decorations

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#9 I’m This Old

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#10 Truth

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#11 Overhead Projector

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#12 Pencils With Cartridges

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#13 Ruler Stencils

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#14 Fresh Play-Doh

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#15 Anyone Remember Making These Shoebox Dioramas For School?

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#16 This Ice Cream

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#17 The Teacher’s Pull Down Maps

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#18 Listening To The Radio Waiting To See If Your School Was Closed When It Snowed

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#19 Making These

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#20 Went School Supply Shopping With My Kid. Bought Myself A Trapper Keeper And A Cool Pen

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#21 Old Bathroom Sink In Toronto

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Came across this old sink that I haven’t seen since I was in grade school in 1990. I know these were popular in the 80s…. Maybe 70s?

#22 Did Anyone Else Have A Stage In The Cafeteria Of Their School?

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#23 These Battered Library Stools

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#24 I Still Remember The Cold Hard Surface Of These Lab Tables

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#25 Sanford Permanent Marker

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If you’ve watched someone open one of these markers and immediately smelled its intense aroma.

#26 Running Your Finger Along The Grooves In The Wall While In School

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#27 I See Your Overhead Projector And Raise You A Mimeograph

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#28 You Are Lucky To Have All Your Fingers After Dealing With One Of These

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#29 The Rope Climb

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I remember the fear and anxiety that came when you walked into my grade school gym to see the rope

#30 This Student School Desk

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#31 That One Magic Day When The Janitor Would Go Onto The School Roof & Throw Down All The Balls That Were Lost Up There

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#32 The Old School Library Book Pocket Card

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#33 Who Remembers … The Grade Book ?

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#34 School Textbooks And Seeing If You Knew Any Of The Names Before You

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#35 Remember Doing This

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Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.