First day of school,then and now.

[Ruth n Jersey]

Today was the first day of school for my Grand kids. One in the 1st and the other in 4th. The other photo was my first day in Kindergarten 1950. The little boy was a neighbor. Can't get over the clothes on the boy and me with a bow in my hair. lol Times sure have changed.

 

[Camper6]

I went home for lunch. Didn't go back. Went out and played with friends who weren't school age. Did not know it was an all day affair. No one told me.

 

[jujube]

My first and second grade were only half days. First graders went in the morning and second graders went in the afternoon. I was five years old and it was exactly a mile to walk to school, crossing a very busy highway with no traffic lights. Mom was home with a sickly newborn and my dad had the car every day, so walk it was. The "traffic boys" met us at the highway and hurried us across. I hated school for the first couple of months.

My daughter's first day of school, I walked her in and then sat in the parking lot and cried for a half hour.

I took my granddaughter to school for her first day. She asked me not to cry and embarrass her.