Reply #2: I was born in 1966. [View All]

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I went to school in the same school district in a Minneapolis suburb from kindergarten through graduation. The district had about seven elementary schools, two junior high schools, and one high school.

Hot lunches were 25 or 50 cents when I started school; I can't remember which. They went up to 75 cents, and then were $1 by the time I graduated.

My mother made our lunches when we were in elementary school, but we could take hot lunch sometimes for fun. Milk was 5 cents in elementary school. We could have either regular or chocolate any day.

We had to go to the cafeteria as a class, but we could sit with kids in other classes if we wanted to. Teachers left for the faculty cafeteria, and we were looked after by the "lunch ladies." At recess, we were watched by the "playground ladies."

Also in elementary school, we could not wear shorts to school except during Track & Field days in the spring, and on the last day of school for the class picnics.

When I was in high school, we had a "smoking lounge" outdoors, behind the school. You were supposed to be 18 to smoke there, but no one ever checked I.D.s. The ladies who watched over the lounge were a couple of parents, and as long as you were only smoking tobacco, they didn't seem to care.

We had an open campus at lunch time, so I often went out to lunch with friends.