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"The egg is your baby" school assignment
- Thread starter Sectorseven
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Am American, I was so jealous of TV high schoolers that got wood working classes. I never had that shit in the 90's. I'm convinced it is fiction but a few people I've met say they've had it. Fuck Florida I guess.
I also saw this on TV a lot but it must have been phased out by the time I got there. I never did this and don't know anyone personally who did either.
I never had to do it. I had friends that had to do it, during High school, and it was with a bag of flour.
Same with us… until someone threw another kid's flour bag down a stairwell and that was kinda it for ours and future grades…
Same here. It would also just cry at random times. It did on me in the middle of the night once.
edit: Also if I recall correctly, we were told it had an internal mechanism that would count "hard falls" so they would know if and how often we dropped the baby.
there's a this american life episode with a story like this.... it was a cool episode but it was baby dolls and not eggs
In 5th grade, I moved to a new school that had periods, so I had to live with that for the last few months of elementary school.
Never did the baby thing, egg or doll.
Can confirm it was a real thing, and was evolving in that decade. I missed out on the egg by a year, and our school had moved on to dolls with some rudimentary electronics. Despite having to do this in the mid-90s, our lead science teacher at my school at the time was an absolute madman and equipped dolls with crude accelerometers so it would track the number of times you handled it improperly.
Basically:
Basically:
Yeah, I feel like having kids take care of something like a hamster would be more productive than an inanimate object if they are trying to teach kids how to care for something.
I feel like she either did that on purpose, or maybe...you got any weird marks on your head?
Lockers are real! Did you not have one at your schools?
I had them in middle and high school. In middle school they were mostly ignored but high school they were necessary because our textbooks were too heavy to carry around all day.
This too, also a cow's eye.
You never really forget that nauseating chemical smell of preserved animal parts.
I only dissected a baby pig. I no longer eat pork.
I also dissected a much smaller fetal pig in college.
Same. That thing was hard to cut into.
wow thats hardcore. never heard of dissecting a fetal pig
Oh man, then it popped open and the vitreous humor blob slid out and ugggggh....
I'm feeling ill just thinking about it.
I hope that's a different assignment because if you guys were pretending the eggs were babies and then armoring them up and letting them fight, I'm not sure what was being taught.
But we definitely had stuff like an egg drop test (design something that would allow an egg to drop from a high height without breaking).
I remember reading an article stating that those dolls were given to discourage teen pregnancies, but actually ended up encouraging them.
I never did this, but I was familiar with it and I *think* my school had some classes that did this but I honestly dunno if I just blended that in from 1990s TV. I vaguely have memories of people walking around with their eggs in a box, but I dunno if I stitched that from TV into my own memories of high school or not.
Yep we did worm and frog disection in biology. Was pretty good TBH. I forget if we did pig... I think I did that in college, but don't remember.
Yep we did worm and frog disection in biology. Was pretty good TBH. I forget if we did pig... I think I did that in college, but don't remember.
I had the weird electronic doll.
Some TV shows have them taking it home overnight and stuff but I just had to do it for a few hours.
Some TV shows have them taking it home overnight and stuff but I just had to do it for a few hours.
lol definitely had this too, and there was an aspect of taboo like "... are we romantically involved now...?" type thing. Like the "relationship" with your baby mama or baby daddy was never quite the same after.
Yeah, my middle school did this with the special baby dolls with speakers. You had to "feed" and "change" them and shit.
But I never had to because they only made girls do it. Which was absolute bullshit, but ya know. What else can you expect from a conservative rural school where the school board and town worshiped an 80 year old piece of shit football coach who shouted the N word at students in school all the fucking time.
My school had dolls with motion sensors and shit that recorded whether kids took good care of them. They also cried randomly, too, which pissed off a lot of parents who didn't sign on to having a screeching malfunctioning toy in their house for a week without approving it first.
I never took home ec, so I never had to bother with it.
I never took home ec, so I never had to bother with it.
Its a real thing, my 8th graders get it for a week during Biology. Its super fun to watch them during that week trying to protect it 😅❤️
Yeah, same here. Saw dioramas and various presentations kids had to do but never experienced any of that in the UK thankfully until University.
Proms did start bleeding into the UK in the 2000s thanks to American influence.
I never had that problem. The other kid was a snooty asshole lol.
We could have had flour bags now I come to think of it. Maybe we did both. It's hard to remember what was me and what was fiction anymore, gosh.
This is the kind of bullshit schools had us doing instead of trying to teach financial literacy or like, the truth about slavery
Just imagine your kid comes home, and you're like "What did you do in school today?" And they just look at you and say they made a child with another student.
My sister had to do it with an egg.
My Mom can draw pretty well so she drew a face on it. It survived and, because of the face, my sister never threw it out until around 20 years later. The inside was a solid ball.
My Mom can draw pretty well so she drew a face on it. It survived and, because of the face, my sister never threw it out until around 20 years later. The inside was a solid ball.
Nope. We did an 'Egg Drop' science experiment where we had to design a contraption to stop the egg from cracking when dropped from the roof of the school. That was fun
