Did you ever attend a school with any of the following?

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When I started junior high (grades 7-9) /high school (grades 10-12), we had of those things, but the early seventies were a time of change, driven by Title IX (1972) and the rising power of the teachers union.

In grades 7 and 8 we had quarters of shop classes alternating with art, shop including woodworking, plastics, and electronics. In anticipation of Title IX my eighth grade (70-71) had cross over weeks where the boys got a sampling of home economics and the girls got shop. So I had a week of cooking, a week of sewing, and a week of typing/shorthand. Ninth grade provided for more shop electives, but they also opened up registration for boys to take home ec and vice versa. I signed up for cooking, but it was full and I was told that girls had priority for the class. Not so much progress after all.

Hall passes were always required, but by my junior year, teachers weren't checking them anymore. They decided that it was an unreasonable requirement that was not in their job description, and if the school board and administration wanted to check hall passes they could do it themselves.

There was a traditional prom until my senior year (1975) when it was replaced by a senior dinner. Many felt it inappropriate to expect boys to be asking girls out to dance by then. Some still came as dating couples, but many came with groups of friends. Three buddies and I rented a limo, and somehow convinced many of our classmates that it belonged to one of our fathers who was incredibly wealthy (fake news - he wasn't).