Today is my Poppop’s 94th birthday, and all the fourth graders know what an important part of my life he is. He keeps our whole family chuckling, for sure.
Well, there must have been a lot of changes in schools between the 1920s and now. Poppop, born in 1916, recently visited our classroom for the first time ever in my teaching career, and all he could say over and over was, “Holy mackerel! Holy mackerel!”
I’m still wondering exactly what he meant!
a school around 1920
2010
His reaction was priceless! “THIS is a classroom?! Ho-o-ol-ee-eey mackerel! And the principal is a WOMAN?!” 🙂
I’ll have to ask Poppop this weekend if he has an actual school picture from back then that we could post.