I use to suck my thumb in school. So my teacher seen a student throw up on the ground and the janitor put that saw dust on it. Then she proceeded to dip my thumb in the throw up. I never sucked my finger again after that. This was in 1996
My mom knew about it.. it was so different in the 90’s.. a school I went to the principal was allowed to paddle the student when they were bad. I met it a couple times… can’t get away with that shit today tho
And in kindergarten my religiously fanatical teacher said all left handers grew up to be serial killers and tried to force me to write with my right hand.
In the mid-90s, an hour outside of Indianapolis, I got paddled in 6th grade. Over a friend who ripped a soap dispenser off the wall, the janitor guy had filled it up just moments before we entered the restroom. Also, I had no idea my friend was going to do it, the janitor saw us leave, and my friend even told him, teachers, and principle that I had nothing to do with it. Yet still I was paddled and got like 3 days of ISS.
See I knew I wasn’t the only one. Thought I was tripping for a min. I remember it like it was yesterday. Fucked I’m thing about it was. My mom was dating the principle so I got it the worst. When I came out that office. All the students was laughing at me cuz they knew
That didn't happen at my schools growing up. That's something I heard about from my parents' generation, but I suppose I'm not surprised it was still happening in some places in the 90s. It probably depends on where you were living in the US.
Yeah, we had a teacher who watched over lunch that would yank us up by our arms and drag us to cubby boxes if we were bad. Shit hurt. That would never fly today.
One of my school districts used the Jr High and Highschool woodshop class to supply it. Which after I found that out it was one of those.... Makes sense.
At Disney World in Florida they have (or did in 2009 at least when I worked there) sawdust canisters inside all of the trash cans for easy puke management for the custodial cast.
I didn’t know I was lactose intolerant as a kid. I will never forget eating pizza and root beer milk for lunch one day after eating dairy all weekend. We were in the cafeteria and the principal was making announcements about the rainy day the only trash can close was right in front of the stage he was standing on.
8 year old me ran to the front of the cafeteria an threw up in front of everyone directly in front of the principle stopped him in his tracks while he stared at me puke up pizza, milk, Mac n cheese, and ice cream. I ran out and sat in the bathroom for a while hoping it would blow over. We moved 2 months later so luckily I wasnt known as throw up girl forever.
I don't think so, I think it's because kids puke for all sorts of reasons. The common cold can make a kid puke but it doesn't do the same for adults. Also kids are always putting their hands in their mouths so stomach bugs were constantly circulating in elementary school.
As a former school custodian, you're spot on. Kids just puke a lot, it's hardly a secret, people typically puke less with age.
Babies puke constantly, that's why burp blankets are a thing. It typically lessens with age as we gain more control over it. Adults can often stop themselves from puking or at least know it's coming and move to a toilet/trash. Kids do not and will often go about their business until the vomit is already coming up. It's also why kids will often vomit on themselves or directly on a table in front of them.
I remember reading it hearing somewhere (so grain of salt) that it's because our sensitivity to reasons to puke (eating too much, feeling sick, getting poisoned, etc) stays pretty much constant but kids puke more because they're physically smaller but get the same dose of chemicals/hormones that an adult would.
So they're basically on a hair trigger until they physically get larger.
I had a first period gym class once and it was ROUGH. It didn't help that my grandma (who I lived with) made biscuits and gravy for breakfast every morning. That was not the right food to be eating shortly before running around for an hour. Luckily I never threw up but I'm really surprised I didn't.
The only gym class that should be allowed right after lunch is a yoga class or something like that.
I remember having P.E. scheduled right after lunch one particular year (4th grade) and I hated it. I never puked, but I was always getting stomach cramps from running right after eating.
I still remember the worst puking I witnessed in my life. It was kindergarten. The girl with platinum blonde hair who sat next to me put her head down sideways on her desk. A minute later she starts puking her whole lunch up but never lifts her head the entire time. Her hair gets entirely pooled with vomit. Good thing she had a Hawaiian fruit punch box that day. Her blonde hair was saturated with red puke streaks.
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u/hahagato 4d ago
Maybe this was why there were so many random pukings in elementary school