I was in elementary school in the late '70s. Two winters in a row, we had horrible weather that caused weeks of being shut in at home. The local public school system resorted to having lessons taught on the local PBS channel according to a grade level and subject schedule. Fun times. My family had to melt snow for water.

@theloftons8297

3 жыл бұрын

They had to do this in Houston because so many kids didn't have a laptop, tablet, or wifi.

@SoulShineLiveMichele

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. I knew of a local college doing PBS class but never for public school. That must have been crazy. I know that the way school was done 2020 changed from district to district, state to state, not to mention countties. It's so interesting to hear how other places handled things. It'll be interesting to see how the future is affected.

@SammyD89

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that's interesting.

@pongop

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! I remember that for a while (90s/2000s?) people were talking about how the future of teaching might be video/TV lessons and the teacher wouldn't need to be physically present. It's interesting to know now that this idea came from somewhere and had already been done. I'm thinking about how this idea both came from previous situations like yours, and also foreshadowed the online/virtual teaching with Zoom/video that we've had with the pandemic. Thanks for sharing.

@Kymberlee_W

2 жыл бұрын

Growing up in SC in the 70s-80s, we didn't often get snow that lasted very long or was deep enough to keep us out of school. One year, however, we missed 2 weeks. They determined that we only had to go to school for a half day on a Saturday to make up for those missed days. My parents, being the strict ones, made sure I went. It was a complete waste if time, though, as only about half the students showed up and the teachers just let us read or sit quietly.... How could they teach with only half a class? They'd have to spend class time going back over it anyway so they didn't bother.

The spaghetti strap dresses with a shirt underneath, the butterfly mini clips, the Friday night TGIF rundown of shows, Lisa Frank, Titanic soundtrack, etc. I miss the 90's so much.

@OK.Graycie

2 жыл бұрын

It felt so innocent but had a little bit of bad-assness (yes I know that isn't a word) in it kinda like the 50s. Now, it just all seems bad.

Times this video attacked me personally: 1) Pulling the front hair strands out; 2) coffelova4eva as an official screenname; 3) butterfly hair clips; 4) WHERE IS MY TAMAGOTCHI; 5) Bill Nye is science class for today.

@taraking5353

3 жыл бұрын

Get off the phone line! I’m trying to get on the internet!

@smash0005

3 жыл бұрын

Still pulling front strands out in 2021. In fact I think it’s safe to say hair strands 4eva!!!

@secondjulia

3 жыл бұрын

@@smash0005 SAME! Still make sure to have bits in front cut the perfect length to be cute. 90s cute anyway. 90scute4eva

@kasialawecki7538

3 жыл бұрын

I wear those t-shirts!

@TheSoftballstar1261

3 жыл бұрын

Third Julia here 🤣 I totally agree 😃

As a current teacher and child of the 90s… this is spot on. The books on the shelf in the background… the hair back with butterfly clips 😂🙌🏼

@beigekitten89

3 жыл бұрын

yes! same same and same

@beigekitten89

3 жыл бұрын

also we would have to give out out addresses ...not good! thank God theres not that

@easha5706

3 жыл бұрын

100th like!

@piaz2023

3 жыл бұрын

The t-shirt under the sundress.

@rthomas986

3 жыл бұрын

The butterfly clips were everything!!

Having graduated high school in 94, this legit couldn't even have happened, because hardly anyone even had home computers or internet. Only the richest kids with techie parents maybe had it. Teachers still used risographs & dittos!😝

@pinlight97

3 жыл бұрын

You should read my comment…also, I definitely wasn’t rich. My dad was a shop teacher and my mom was working at a bank. We always had 2nd hand cars, basic needs, etc as 1 of 5 kids. I worked hard and paid my own way through university. Built my own computer by adding a modem and parts, paid for a 2nd line and kept going. I do still know how a risograph, overhead projector, film camera and dark room, slide projector all work but also now know robotics and programming. It’s more being a tech-head: I spent my earned money on this type of thing vs fancy stuff (eg when I married in ‘97 I designed my own programs, family made my dress, etc). Anyway, yes, many families were not ready for the internet: in this last pandemic this was still true and that was due to the higher upload/download needs for images and particularly video calling. Here in Canada schools in the north use satellite (very slow and glitchy), and some teachers without their own WiFi were sitting in school parking lots to use that for teaching days. My local board, in what some would say is a “better off” area, distributed literally every tablet and laptop they owned so kids could connect. That is always the unfortunate down-side of technology: some will sail, some will struggle that may float but do better in-person, and some won’t even get a chance to on-board. (My apologies for the short essay!)

@secondjulia

3 жыл бұрын

I got my first email address in like 1998. Things definitely would've been rough! And crazy to think how hard it still was 20-30 years later.

@napqueen2628

3 жыл бұрын

I graduated in ‘88 and it would have been a “snow year” for us. We had no technology…other than land lines.

@sarahsimpkins1311

3 жыл бұрын

Also we didnt have cellphones

@lynettepettitt655

3 жыл бұрын

Technology & the cost of access to it changed drastically between the beginning of the 1990's & the end of it. I started high school in 1990 & was still able to take typing classes on a typewriter. By 1999 when my youngest brother graduated computers & internet access was quite common at home.

Every time I hear the dial up sound, it hurts my heart

@jkseraphim4

2 жыл бұрын

And my ears. That sound still bothers me.

The macarena, the dress, spot on...

@pinlight97

3 жыл бұрын

I got married in ‘97 and darned right that we did the Macarena…3 times? 😂

@sheabutta5425

3 жыл бұрын

@@pinlight97 I went to a wedding 2 weeks ago and the macarena was playing. It's a wedding staple.

@Eiramilah

3 жыл бұрын

and how she pulled out the hair in front... that was me all through the 90's

@workin4alivin585

2 жыл бұрын

...and the Zima!

This is hilarious. It brings back memories using AOL on the phone line!

Everyone can’t be all on the internet at the same time - that’s a luxury that’ll be available in 2047: still waiting for this one!! LOL

@bsimmer6793

3 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeessss 😂

@PinkProzac16

3 жыл бұрын

My parents live in the middle of nowhere and can only get dsl. Only one of us can use the internet at once or it’s useless. Lol.

I imagined pandemic teaching to be more like calling the kids parents and sending letters with excercises and the solutions in a second sealed envelope.

@littlemissblueyes100

2 жыл бұрын

Or a self addressed stamped return envelope!

The whole sound... Yeah we used to have to sit through all that

@MichelleLM88

3 жыл бұрын

Also the length of time that web pages would take to load. Kids today wouldn't survive. okay, who am I kidding I wouldn't survive anymore with that (I get annoyed nowadays if a page takes longer than 5 seconds to load 😒 and I grew up with mostly text base pages taking close to 15 minutes to load. I don't know what happened to my patience )

Her face when the magic 8-ball tells her to quit her job is everything!!

"Should I put all my money into Beanie Babies?" 🤣👍

@katiearbuckle9017

3 жыл бұрын

I still got a small fortune.

There are some parts of the country where the schools are having to do what they would've done in the 90's because the internet connectivity is still really bad for some people in certain places. The teachers were leaving the worksheets and assignments and stuff out in the gym and the kids had to go pick them up and drop them off once a week.

@ratherbfishing455

3 жыл бұрын

It probably turned out better. At least the students couldnt spend 24/7 playing on their electronics :(

@guccideltaco

3 жыл бұрын

My district did this in spring of 20. We were supposed to create 6 weeks or so of assignments on paper, which were distributed to whichever students who showed up to pick them up, then their parents were supposed to drop them off in a box at the front of the school as they finished them. I talked to one mom whose ONLY internet access was on her phone, so if she wasn't at home, her son couldn't do any online work. It was pretty rough.

@brittanyjackson6432

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good solution

@GaryLiseo

2 жыл бұрын

I taught in a school like that at the start of COVID. We had to plan offline work for students to do if they didn’t have internet connection, but we’re also told they couldn’t get our assignments to students

@akc1739

2 жыл бұрын

Yup...our eastern NC district was making "packets". Total nightmare. Nobody wanted yo touch them we hen they were turned in, IF they were turned in (and not done by a parent).

I did something called "correspondence school" in the late 70s because I lived overseas. This is where you are given a pile of lesson booklets, you buy your textbooks and away you go. When you finished a lesson you posted it (that is, snail mail) to your teacher and they sent it back when it was marked. That was the only contact with the teacher. In the 90s I homeschooled my own kids and it was similar except we periodically had a 'workshop' with the teacher by traveling to the physical address of the 'distance ed' school, and spending the day with them and other classmates. This style of learning does require commitment and self-motivation.

@michellesunshinestar

3 жыл бұрын

My sister did Klan Lara school kind of like your homeschooling. I can't remember if some of it was online. I graduated in 1998, she is 4 and 1/2 years younger. We always were ahead with the technology because my mom was a computer programmer

@kayakinggrandmakelly7105

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! My dad was stationed overseas and my sister and I did correspondence school, in 1978-80.

@ratherbfishing455

3 жыл бұрын

My mother took correspondence classes. She wrote well, so it was easy.

@MamiTT237

3 жыл бұрын

I’m 31. We called it Independent studies in California. I did it and had a full time job which was actually illegal for a minor to be working more than 20 hours per week. But I felt I was too mature and “BETTER” than the other kids to go to regular school. Go figure, I have been working for myself ever since I graduated 😍

@erinlouise5516

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't do it. I am not motivated enough. Ugh

Didn't even have internet in the 90s at my house☺️

@dorismidge8762

3 жыл бұрын

Neither did we. I remember my parents buying our first computer with 500 megabytes of storage and the salesman saying we’d never fill the hard drive! I spent some of my time bowling, playing solitaire, and losing at Paperboy on the computer! We mostly just sat around and watched the screensaver! 😂

I started teaching in the 90’s and this is exactly how it would’ve been!

Only having one weekend to overhaul my teaching style was KILLER.

@amylee8969

3 жыл бұрын

Things that could've been added: 1) Magic School Bus video 2) Bill Nye the science guy video 3) Kidz pix

This is so good! So many things I forgot about and didn't even think of as a child of the '90s. 😁 I was waiting for an Oregon trail reference.

@mrsmack5808

3 жыл бұрын

I found Oregon trail last year and had my 5 year old playing it. I could never seem to win it as a kid and was soooo proud of myself for winning it my first time through lol

@Illfigureoutanamelater

2 жыл бұрын

I was REALLY BAD at Oregon Trail as a kid, every couple of steps my people were dying of dysentery

@OK.Graycie

2 жыл бұрын

@@Illfigureoutanamelater Same. I would love to play that again though for the nostalgia.

Omg. As a child of the 80's and teen of the early 90's this is as hell.

😂 Oh the internet back then….we’d still be waiting!

Dang, TGIF, those were the days! This was great!

@rjones4748

3 жыл бұрын

TGIF was awesome I miss that

@apara2005

3 жыл бұрын

Tv hasn't been the same!

Accurate. And now you can buy Trapper Keepers again!

I recently had a zoom meeting with some old buddies from high school, and we had talked about what would have happened if the pandemic occurred while we were in school.

@ycartyahoo

3 жыл бұрын

What did you decide would happen? I just figured we all would have been kept back a year or too.

@swingersfan

3 жыл бұрын

@@ycartyahoo We all pretty thought that for the most part, or having our teachers mail us assignment packages. We definitely would have felt more isolated and cut off from the school community.

@bristoloreilly2838

3 жыл бұрын

My elementary school only had 60 kids from jk up to grade 6 so they probably would have made us go and just do classes outside lol. Even the buses only had about 10-15 kids each and most were either siblings or cousins (tiny farming town where practically everyone was related somehow to 2-3 main families)

@brittanyjackson6432

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've wondered this too and I think, in retrospect, they would have sent all the kids packets by mail, and had them turn them in, and probably just pass all the kids to the next grade, by default.

@mischellyann

2 жыл бұрын

We would have just gone to school.

This is amazing! The details! The butterfly clips, the dress, the sounds, Bill Nye, the hair in the face on the sides! AMAZING!

These 90’s references are so dead on! When you mentioned the Tamagotchi, I started to wheeze! 😂 I was obsessed with that thing just to prove to myself I could keep something alive. 😂 I began teaching in ‘94, so this is so relatable, omg. I love your channel so much. I just found it today, and I’m already hooked!

The sound nostalgia is making my day!

Omg all jokes aside I feel like this would have been an even bigger nightmare to deal with than now.

@tboss3276

3 жыл бұрын

Do you know that Jesus loves you and cares for you very deeply? He does! He really does.😊❤

@Fiery154

3 жыл бұрын

It absolutely would.

@jesusfollowerswomenministries

3 жыл бұрын

@@tboss3276 Amen Jesus loves us and that is why He calls us to come to Him to be saved, He calls us all to repentance so we can be saved. Romans 10:12-13 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

@tboss3276

3 жыл бұрын

@@jesusfollowerswomenministries amen!😁

So funny! Brings back memories … I started teaching way back in 1987. Retired already yay!

@katiearbuckle9017

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I remember you guys. "You, can't use your calculator forever?!" And "Gimme your Phone.. " Honestly, I miss you guys. There still were good Teachers back than. Meanwhile I am now starting work as an Icecream Girl in a week.

It would have been rough if this happened during the 90's. I feel like it would have been a bunch of packets from every class.

@ASMRGRATITUDE

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that is what my school would have done because hardly anybody had the internet. A lot of people didn't even have a computer.

Wow!! If I weren’t alive then, I would think this is the stone ages!

"still seems like it'd be a nightmare" yes, honey, it was indeed a nightmare!! This video is so on point frfr!!🤣🤣

I taught in the 90’s! This is spot on!

The tshirt with the dress! A+

This is so great....anyone with a high pony and two thin pieces of hair pulled in the front means business 😆

Not the Tamagachi 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love the outfits and hair, so 90s.

If it was before '93 we could have made use of those party lines, lol!! Phone costs prior to broadband would have been outrageous, kids would have been in the chat rooms talking about a/s/l? The sounds, lol!!!

If the pandemic happened when I was in school things wouldn't have changed that much since I was homeschooled. 😂

@mrsmack5808

3 жыл бұрын

Haha same. We had vhs lessons as it was from Abeka (a K-12 program that was part of Pensacola Christian College).

ZIMA🤣🤣🤣Darn you Smirnoff Ice!

They would have probably had the students pick up the books at the school and have weekly study work instructions in packets and have it all turned in everytime the next week's packet has to be picked up. Anything requiring an actual lecture would probably have been on a VCR tape. Project presentations and essays would have probably been done on a camera and put on a VCR tape for the teacher to review.

This whole video was it for me! The accuracy, the humor, everything!!! 🤣😂😂

Funny and so cutting edge for that time period!

“Coffeeluva4eva, yeah” xD

lmao , I had 4 kids growing up in the 90s and everything was spot on ,right down to hair styles and the internet lol I myself had picked up the landline and disconnected the internet lol. but that's true how would we do all that in a pandemic in the 90s, I went through blizzard of 78, couldn't imagine it. I still would like to go back to 80s and 90s they were fun , 70s was the best.

@karbear26

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in the blizzard of 78 almost couldn’t get me home from the hospital!

@sherried4219

3 жыл бұрын

@@karbear26 wow I was like 15 going on 16 in feb. our ele .went out for 9 hrs had to go to neighbors to stay warm cause they had a gas stove. it was something else I'll never forget it.💜💜

Too funny. The sound of the door closing. Totally forgot that. 😁😂

The door closing from aim is triggering lol

This is your best video ever! Not only is this spot on, it is hilarious! We've got to count our blessings we did not have to live through this in the 90s! Much love!

You forgot to have them watch Magic School Bus and Reading Rainbow… and play Oregon Trail to learn about history 😝

Zima! you forgot you needed a disc to run AOL, so yelling "where is my disc?!" or looking for your floppy disc wouldn't be out of line. love the phone. ah, the '90s for computer work. it was a lot of fun and remembering the right commands for your dos prompt was a gift. :-)

Omg, THOSE BUTTERFLY CLIPS...lol. this bought me back🤣🤣🤣.

This video is everything!

Dial up, Tamagotchi and your hairstyles bring back so many memories 😂 and those MSN chat rooms 🤣

Dial up sucked lmao when somebody picked up the phone signal was gone lol

Pretty much how it really feels! Bless you for this video!!! I laughed, I cried.... then I laughed a little more!

🎵Captain Planet he’s a hero gonna take pollution down to zero🎵 I loved that darn show😍😍!!!!!!!

Omg the dial up internet sound...I had almost forgotten how traumatizing it was to sit through

The sounds are so great! 😆 took me back to the good ole days

I was actually wondering the other day about what a pandemic in the 90s would be like.

@SRose-vp6ew

2 жыл бұрын

People wouldn't have been as tied to their phones and known about it. Fauci advised the same stuff with the fear of family over AIDs but it never took because the contradicting and more accurate science was not cen ored. In 2020 we all masked and stayed home as best we could but in the city we still worked and that meant 1 in 8 got "recorded" as sick before their was a v ax in my area. If 1 in 8 was tested and tracked a more likely 1 in 4 had it. I can't tell you how many times whole families got ill but only one submitted to testing because they had to, doesn't mean they didn't stay home while sick, they did. We wouldn't have even noticed had the testing not been such a buzz. Just like how it didn't make news when different people I knew died of pneumonia or dealt with auto immune after lyme or other unknown and not talked about causes. I am not saying people wouldn't notice that a new illness came in most over the age of 80 passed away from it but I really don't think there would have been as much pressure and cen sor ed information. I am more concerned to see how those who never got Al pha naturally react to what is yet to come. 75% of those hospitalized at the hospital that I saw were the v ax ed. That's not "misinformation" it's called reality. Another reality is we are not even looking into if the other 25% had it naturally or not at all. My guess is not at all. Am I allowed to guess? We have no evidence that the v ax was the right way to go. We just have "faith" it will work out in the long run. We have no idea what 5 years down the road look like and it's a little off that those who are questioning and testing get slandered for even looking into things. Am I really not allowed to think and share my thoughts? I know my local medical collage no longer allows this and maybe that's why about 15% are about to walk out over ethical concerns and those forced to v ax under duress. Will that make the news? Nope but for a few seconds it will last on social media before it get lied about. There is nothing kind about the stuff going on and it sure isn't science for HR to tell scientists their allowed stances to say and forced self-experimentation they must accept in order to work. This is how things were handled in the 90s but it waters down the fear mongering that was still happening to make people fear the gay as if they all had aids and as if signs should be put on store doors telling them to mask and glove and stay away from family and friends. Could you image something like that? It didn't line up with the science and people knew to call it out and talk about the real issues and discuss potential solutions that went beyond the red tape political nonsense. www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/20/fauci-aids-nih-coronavirus/

This was outrageously good and Incredibly accurate!!! I'm soo impressed by how dedicated you were to remembering all those things from the 90s, things like Xima that I didn't remember, and the particulars of AOL. Lol Instant messaging was soo cool and progressive at the time lol. I also like your clips in your hair, the little butterfly clips that we all wore, lol, and how you had a dress with a t-shirt under it like from Clueless. This was so good and pandemic in the 90's sounds like it would have been horrific as a teacher LOL. Who has time for all of that? And that darn fax machine, signing on to internet sound is the worse. Lol Great job girl!!! 😀🥳

Dial up!! A joy that kids these days will never know! Lol!

Accurate right down to the "beer"

Love the butterfly clips twisted back! ♥️

Pandemic teaching would’ve been a call to your house saying someone needs to pick up your homework packet from the school. It would just be an extended snow break. All packets would be collected when you returned the first day back. If it was elementary school, you’d have to drop the packet at the teacher’s house in the mailbox. LOL

@KatieBellino

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It would have been a ton of packets.

I am cracking up. Too funny. So true.

Zima! 😆

That phone cracks me up ...that would have been considered retro in the 90s.

The costume and hair and house and all the sounds... I love it!!!!

It is cute how so many teachers love their students no matter the struggles because I've had so many great and loving teachers

Not the butterfly clips, and a Lisa frank binder 😂😂😂 yeees

Oh my gosh did this take me back!!!!

Very well done. Brought back memories as a teen.

The 80's and the 90's was such a wonderful time. Beanie Babies, Trolls, POGS, Magic the Gathering, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Tamagotchi, big hair, music, retro consoles before they were retro, the beginning of internet, etc.

Oh, this brought back so many memories! So funny, thanks!

Here for this!!

A Zima!!! Omg! You thought of everything! Love it!

God I love everything about this… the butterfly clips, the dial in internet, Lisa Frank planner comment, instant messenger sounds and OMG TOMAGOTCHI!!!! I was obsessed …. And love the MTV SHIRT 🤣😂

Wow!! from someone who was a kid in the 90s this brought back so many memories!! The hair clips, Lisa frank folders and tamagotchi🤗🤗

In 1997 I was sick for a long time and had to do homebound school. It was on the phone, a teacher reading with us. A lot of packets. A little weird honestly. But I had a really amazing math teacher that in her own time came to my house.

It would have been better in the 90s. Kids were not allowed to have cell phones and parents wanted their children to have a good education!

Not being able to use the phone and the computer at the same time was the worst.

"If you do not have a fax machine, you can mail it to me. Here is my home address." 😂🤣😂🤣 omg I totally forgot how some things used to be!

I would have been so happy to do online learning back in the day. Not being bullied every day or getting in trouble would have been wonderful. I have nice parents and a cool brother and wouldn't have minded more time with them.

I was thinking teqcher would have been having to hand deliver packets to all their students houses.

Dial up! 😂 with the get off the phone so I can use the net.

So funny! Thanks for this.

The Tamagotchi and dial-up sound got me! I think 11 or 14 days was my personal best with a Tamagotchi. 😂 And yelling at someone to get off the phone so you can use the internet--good times! 😂😂😂 And here we are using the internet WHILE talking on the phone.

Dang! You even brought up Zima! This spoke to me in so many ways. 😳😏

Spot on!!

You look great Jess! Congrats on your baby

I squealed out loud when you said "I need my Lisa Frank folder!!" Lol then cut to butterfly clips in all the sections!!!!!! I bout died LOL we're living in Zenons 21st century!!

PBS definitely would have saved the day for teachers back in the 90s. You could have the kids watch Magic School Bus, Bill Nye, and Kratt's Creatures for science class, Reading Rainbow and Wishbone for English, Wishbone, Carmen Sandiego, and Adventures from the Book of Virtue for social studies, Bob Ross for art class. I guess the only thing that would be difficult to cover would be math.

This is soooo spot on!!!I I am a teacher and this is scary to think of having to do this in the 90's. I had two small children then lol!!! I used to hate that dial up sound lol.

Hilarious and totally relatable!

Hahahaha the dialup squeals love it!

This is very clever! I grew up in the 90s. A pager, dial-up, landline phone... it's all so nostalgic. If the pandemic came back then, it would be just like this🤣

FYI, mini butterfly clips can be had from Wal-Mart. I had really short hair that I am growing out and I pull my little bit of bangs in the middle back into a mini butterfly clip because hate hair in my eyes until it is grown out and I can tuck behind my ears. Gosh, this brings back memories, graduated HS in 97.

😂Gel Pens.. 4Eva! Butterfly clips 😂 Macarena😂 her outfit. Omg

Oh my! This was hilarious!❤️❤️

If only there was a way to get that AIM ding everytime I got a text... a girl can dream!

@jeannie1592

3 жыл бұрын

You can! You can download the sound from somewhere, then you put it in your notifications folder 👍