Once Normal in School: 5th Grade Crossing Guards? Smoking Lounges? Wandering Washington DC Alone? Running Your Teacher's Errands? & More! In Thirty Years Will We See Allowing Cell Phones As Crazy?

The Best Paragraph I've Read:

"Education has changed drastically over the years, but you might be surprised at the absolutely wild things that were once deemed "normal" when your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were in school."

This paragraph comes from BuzzFeed. The article is titled: "Imagine The Lawsuit If That Happened Today" Older Adults Revealed 29 Things That Used To Be "Normal" in Schools. The author is Michaela Bramwell. You can read the full article here:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/previously-normal-things-in-schools

Zac & Don share their favorite things that used to be normal in schools. They share their own stories of being in school which connect to the items on the list. They also wonder what it says about American expectation of school twenty, thirty, and forty years ago. Finally they discuss the latest findings from study on middle school cell phone bans.

Zac & Don also reference the following findings of a cell phone ban in middle schools. You can read the findings here:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/04/the-norwegian-ban-on-smart-phones-in-middle-schools.html