#schoolkids

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Morningside School dismissal, Atlanta, 1950.

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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

[henk-heijmans]

Schoolkids learning firearm safety in rural Indiana, 1956 - by Grey Villet (1927 - 2000), American

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Kids after school, Brooklyn Heights, 1958. It looks like they're wearing uniforms, so it may have been a private school.

Photo: David Attie via Gothamist

[semioticapocalypse]

Robert Doisneau. La Recréation. 1956

[toneburst]

‘New settlers’ USSR, 1960s

Photo by Nina Sviridova, Dmitry Vozdvizhensky

[chuckpatch]

New Orleans 1987

[iibislintu]

My students are the best students: new kid in the class

New kid: ”Hey um teacher why are you wearing a dress?”

Kids: ”IT’S A SKIRT!”

New kid: ”Okay why are you wearing a skirt?”

Me: ”Well tbh it goes well with my boots.”

[ID: skirt and boots]

New kid: ”Okay but are you a boy or a girl?”

Kids: ”THEY’RE A SECRET CAT AGENT!”

New kid: ”— what?”

Me: ”It’s true, I have it on paper!”

Me: shows card

[ID: Visiting card that has the text ”secret cat agent” on it]

New kid: ”OH! So your gender is like, mayonnaise on a chair?”

Me: ”Pardon?”

New kid: ”Yeah so mayonnaise, but like, on a chair?”

Me: ”That’s right.”

New kid: ”Okay I have here an official document that you have to sign if your gender is mayonnaise on a chair. Here.”

New kid: pulls out empty A4

Me: signs

New kid: ”Okay, that’s settled then!”

[mudwerks]

arima, trinidad | february 1975

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