Graham Family Reacts To Back To School In 1980s America

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[@philmakris8507]

They didn't mention what a big part of those days in the 80's was going home after school and watching MTV.

[@TNugent]

I concur, when Mtv actually played music videos. Those were the days.

[@anthonyb.9336]

Beavis and Butthead 😂

[@maxr4448]

Laffin

[@mickeyj8503]

Power Rangers and Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Tiny toons.

[@TNugent]

The Mtv I remember played music videos all day and all night long no cartoons or drama show, but headbangers ball came on late Saturday night.

[@jamiesweitzer8469]

Good luck, as a kid of the 70s & 80s teen, Good luck with your finals, most importantly, living in the moment & embracing your friends and fun times, is very necessary!❤💙

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Kids enjoying watching their parents relive their youth! 🤣🤣🤣

[@christypriest30]

I don’t think I even knew anyone who didn’t wear jelly shoes! They look ridiculous but we LOVED them!

[@tudeflaming4355]

From the graduating class of 1982, good luck on your finals. I sure miss those days...

[@Sgt_MoDog_USMC]

Graduated in 1983.... The 70's and 80's were the best for so many things!!!!

[@Beans-1111]

I was born in 1976 so I grew up in the 80's. I really loved it so much! I wish I could build a time machine so I can go back to the 80's! ❤

[@ZachParks21]

Those mechanical pencils that had the fruits on them, he didn't mention it, but they were scented. They actually smelled of the fruit. It was great using them.

[@Havasumom]

Hello from very hot and windy Arizona. Good luck kids on your tests, I have faith in you and you’ll do great!

[@reverendphillipwaselik7467]

I miss those years. So awesome.

[@bigcahuna42366]

I was born in the mid 70s, so I was in Kindergarten - 8th grade during the 80s. I want to hop into a time machine, go back to the 80s, and stay there forever. We had far less technology but had way more fun.

[@cinb3448]

Good luck from Texas!

[@rickcobo]

The blooper just indicated families are all the same no matter where you live! Hilarious!

[@bonoman1987]

Good luck to the kids from your friends in Chicago!

[@helensarkisian7491]

I graduated High School in ‘79, but I still remember all of those things.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

I LOVED getting my Jelly Shoes for Christmas

[@brucew7062]

32 degrees in Slovakia is pretty warm. It is 35 C here in Fort Worth Texas today.

[@JPMadden]

As an American, I use Fahrenheit every day. Because I had a scientific education, I understand metric units as a second language. I automatically convert Celsius whenever I encounter it. Five Celsius degrees are equivalent to nine Fahrenheit. Start at zero C and go up or down: -40 C = -40 F -35 C = -31 F -30 C = -22 F -25 C = -13 F -20 C = -4 F -15 C = 5 F -10 C = 14 F -5 C = 23 F 0 C = 32 F 5 C = 41 F 10 C = 50 F 15 C = 59 F 20 C = 68 F 25 C = 77 F 30 C = 86 F 35 C = 95 F 40 C = 104 F 45 C = 113 F 50 C = 122 F

[@kevinerose]

I like to think C is good for science but F is good for humans. 0C = water freezes 100C = boiling point 0F = too cold to venture outside 100F = too hot to go outside

[@brucew7062]

(C x 9/5) + 32 = F or (F - 32) x 5/9 = C. We had to learn these formulas in school and I still use them today as well as knowing that 0 C = 32 F (freezing) and 100 C = 212 F (boiling). American students should still be taught this if they aren’t.

[@maxr4448]

Good luck Kids! Pocahontas Arkansas! The OZARKS! Come see it sometime. Land of water springs, Redbuds and Dogwoods. Swimming, fishing, and boating.

[@troyshilanski380]

And yep our desks were the same axs yours, lift up and inkwell.

[@strix.1]

Love the Rancho Cucamonga shirt and Lea's Riverside (The Inland Empire) shirt. I used to live in the Inland Empire and have to commute to San Diego every day. Hope the final exams went okay!

[@flu4pdmt]

I absolutely LOVE this family!!!

[@reverendphillipwaselik7467]

Good luck kids!

[@scottgregory7941]

good luck to the kids

[@RealDiehl99]

In my grade school (primary) it seemed like only the girls in class managed to stay organized after the first week. With their pencil cases, notebooks, folders, bookmarks, etc. The boys were borrowing supplies on a regular basis after about a month. The girls all seemed to have perfect handwriting and penmanship as well. 🤔Must be genetic😂

[@Michael-kf7gm]

Omg…I can’t believe he was born in 1986. I feel so old.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

He's only a yr older then my son😮.. yup.. he's aging us

[@Michael-kf7gm]

@@virginiarobbins7539 Lol…I could’ve sworn I was younger than him, not by much, but by a little. Nope! Maybe he’s just more mature than I am lol.

[@nikoknightpuppetproduction369]

I remember school from the early 1970s. Best of luck on your tests Lea and Garin. I am very concern for Garin. If his teacher has it out for him, the teacher might not be fair with the grading. Great video. The 1970s had some of those 1980s things but was different also.

[@lindacarroll6896]

Good Luck!

[@douglasostrander5072]

My elite experience was... I tried out for flag bearers in elementary school. It was a competition, had to know how to do it, we were given test. Two of us made it. I had to fly the half staff for John Wayne got excused to do it. I wasn't going back and told him to just go home. He was actually a cool nerd from Nebraska. His brother was the quarterback of the high school football team and he was a dick to my brother. I have played backyard football with him. Regardless I went home and never heard of skipping.

[@RobertL.JonesJr-hz8vl]

Best of luck to you both on your final school exams.👍

[@hovis62]

I dropped out in 1980, getting a GED the next year, at age 18.

[@metfish]

Good luck kids with finals!

[@GermanShepherdsRule7042]

Please community pray for my beloved State of New Mexico!!!! We have entire communities being evacuated due to wildfires, especially the Village of Ruidoso and the Mescalero Apache Reservation (over 70000 residents)!! Over 500 structures/homes are a total loss!!! Entire community displaced!!!!! Zero containment of fires!!! Heartbroken!!!!!!!! Thank you inadvance for this online community prayers!!!!!! Don't think I can post pictures but you can Google Ruidoso, NM wildfires!

[@jeffuhrig2881]

Will pray for you all 🙏

[@scottc6639]

those old compasses were just the kids version of a prison shank. guess it depends on where you grow up.

[@ElaineSchneider-l4q]

Good luck on your exams!!!

[@Rod-Wheeler]

What about the multi-color pens?

[@JPMadden]

It was a treat getting my hands on one of those.

[@bjrnnikolaisen1656]

Good luck on final exam...My teacher didn't like me either!

[@randy-qf8pq]

My Slovake mother has to have everything perfect ...

[@Anton-ss1in]

Good luck with classes

[@LT-DAN-I70GZ]

Good luck

[@richardmuckle7998]

I was in 10th grade in 80.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

No longer taught cursive writing, or how to tell time on an analog clock.

[@richardmuckle7998]

I was in 9 grade at that time

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Born in 1986 funny, my daughters were born in 1977 and 1978.

[@Howiex-is8gq]

How can u be born in 86 ? And have kids born in 70s?...what school u went too?

[@Marc_donkey]

Good luck with the exams

[@jbcamm876]

The 80's was great. Now wealth, power and greed is destroying America. Have a great day

[@JPMadden]

I hope you're trying to be ironic. Wealth, power, and greed have always been celebrated, but especially in the '80s.

[@jbcamm876]

@@JPMadden I am actually Native Cherokee. I was just being nice. This country always had a problem, wealth, power and greed. And through out history have killed so many innocent people. And took there land. Like my ancestors

[@JPMadden]

@@jbcamm876 I agree with your second comment, which contradicts your first. I have learned, by watching it happen to friends and relatives, that being convinced that America has declined in your lifetime is the first step on a path which often leads to people becoming consumed by the voices of hate, division, and ignorance in this country. I hope this does not happen to you.

[@jbcamm876]

​@@JPMaddenactually America is worse now than ever before.young people are lost, not raised with discipline, rules and direction. They were just left to do what ever they want. They have not respect and treat people bad. The government does not care about it's own people. America is collapsing and fall shall be great. I love this land not America. We were here first. And my people treated this land better. It was the British that bring sickness and disease here my people never saw before.

[@troyshilanski380]

I was bad and dropped out and joined the US Navy. Dont do that.

[@troyshilanski380]

And still aced school. But kids dont drink.

[@kualawilliams4649]

How come you don’t buy an air conditioner for the house?

[@troyshilanski380]

Even out of st joes in 9th grade well i lived in niagara falls ny. Ok i guess girls did dress like 80s teens.

[@arthurestrada2682]

I graduated in the class of 85, and we ran with scissors 😂

[@justmeiniowa]

Class of 85 as well. How we ever survived our childhoods I will never know !

[@brucew7062]

Class of 85 as well and it is amazing how many things we did then that are considered too dangerous now. Great times.

[@philc.352]

I was a teen during the eighties and I still favor those hair styles. Waiting for the comeback!

[@arthurestrada2682]

Also we had to right all our reports in cursive writing.😢

[@JPMadden]

I still write in cursive, which for a guy is unusual. It surprises people.

[@Pan_berrytwo]

As someone who's 19, we were quite literally told we didn't need to learn cursive and we could do it at home if we really cared. But that's the same thing they told a lot of us about phonics too.😂

[@markluscombe4117]

I had a manual typewriter too.

[@JPMadden]

@@markluscombe4117 I had an electric typewriter at home. But when I took a typing class in 9th grade, in 1984-85, we had to use a manual typewriter. It took much more force to operate the keys on one of those than an electric model.

[@lilybats7215]

High School in the 80's was the best! I was a New Wave/Goth kid (still am I guess) the music in the 80's and MTV... best times of my life. OK, my 20's were pretty fun too. * I feel bad for the kids today, they are missing out on so much, with their faces stuck just looking at a phone.

[@ghstdnsr]

I did high school in the 70s and the only real difference from the 80s is when I went we could go outside and smoke between classes or at lunch and 12th grade I only had to go half a day in the morning and often to the bar for lunch and a drink or two or three.

[@tx_1]

I graduated in 1985 & we had smoking areas in our school. lol.

[@nonyadambusness5158]

I graduated in 91. We also had smoking areas.

[@jamesm611]

Good luck kiddos. Yall got this. Yall are very smart kids.

[@blackpowder99]

Trapper Keepers, and Swatch watches were definitely cool.

[@rg20322]

In 1981 in HS Physics our teacher pulled out a 5 foot x 3.5 foot bed of actual nails. This experiment was to show how force is distributed over a large area where the pressure is decreased, as a person (the teacher) laid on this bed without injury. He then had a plywood board put on his chest and a volunteer would hit it with a sledgehammer, obviously under control. These were sharp nails close together separated by about 3/4 of an inch both horizontally and diagonally.

[@James-tz7pe]

Tell the kids good luck from USA SC

[@sonavyheep1890]

Kids good luck on your exams. Much love from Washington State 😎💯🔥

[@squeegybe]

I graduated in 1988 oh man what a time! We had off campus lunch and a smoking section outside. Oh boy have times changed

[@bintheredonethat]

I graduated HS in 1974 & we had senior off campus lunch & a senior lounge inside with a pool table & you could smoke. ;0)

[@jamesjones8482]

Great reactions from all of you! Graduated from HS in 68(old man now), several years before this topic, but very similar in many areas. ❤

[@danielnelson9411]

In the 60's and 70's, cigar boxes were used to hold our pencils, pens, crayons, protractors, etc.

[@brandymorrison2607]

I was born in 76. So I was in Elementary school in the 80’s. Jr High and High School in the early 90’s. Graduated in 95. I loved my jelly shoes. Mom hated them because they brought tiny rocks in the house. Good luck guys!

[@Infpgirl5309]

Best wishes to Lea and Garin from North Carolina! I know you’ll rock your exams!

[@kelbinjacque9572]

Good luck kids. You got this.

[@Alex.Kaleipahula]

The US East Coast is having a heat wave right now with temperatures over 40°C😢 in Hawaii. We just jump in the ocean 🌊 🏄 when it’s hot 🥵

[@TNugent]

Kat and Jono, nostalgia 😊 those were the days. Kids just don't know it yet LoL.

[@TNugent]

Lea & Garin Good luck from Central Texas, take your time you got this no problem.

[@Rod-Wheeler]

Most of the high school guys in my area of the country had gun racks in our pickups, with guns in them.

[@lilliemcneil5447]

Good luck you two on your final exams. I'm sure you're gonna do great!!

[@davidcopple8071]

Good luck on your exams guys. From Texas your friend Dave

[@johnduffy40]

good luck and hope they both do great with school

[@brendahowell6796]

Good Luck on your exams! You can do it!😂

[@jonlouis4263]

Good luck kids!! from Washington, DC

[@katiemcteague]

Best of luck on your exams. You’ll do great. Once they’re over I hope you have a relaxing summer full of good times.

[@RichSanDiego1969]

Good Luck Kido's

[@BoneHead1776]

Good luck kiddos

[@risalangdon9883]

Before the video even starts, let me just confirm that the being a teenager in the 80's was thee absolute best!!! Big hair and big hair bands were awesome!!

[@doobiedave9686]

Good luck on your end of year test Lea and Garin, I'm sure you both will do well. I graduated in 1975 and it's crazy how much changed from the 70's to the 80's when it comes to popular trends in fashion, music, and pop culture. Take care, have a blessed day. 🙌✌️😎

[@jefferyshute6641]

Well, I'm old enough to remember that before there were school supply boxes with charcters on them, we went to the local pharmacy and got an empty cigar box. They worked great and nobody seemed concerned that we had a box with us all day that basically advertised cigar smoking. I was in grammar school in the 60's, so it was really a different time. Girls had to wear dresses, except on Go Western day. Then we all dressed in our most "cowboy" clothing. Texas 😁

[@PrayerfullyBlessedMama]

Such wholesome content. Love the family experience. And laughing with our kids over similarities and childhoods.

[@juliayoung537]

I graduated high school in 1981... junior and senior years were fun 🤫🤣 y'all are wonderful! Love from Georgia

[@artforpizza]

loved this video, loved it. loves hearing parents tell kids of the good ol' days

[@MJ19438]

Class of '83 here. We didn't think lawn jarts was dangerous. We didn't think lawn jarts while blindfolded and spun around 3x first was dangerous either. It was....exhilarating

[@paigeallen4899]

Good luck kids! I'm an American and a Texan that lives in Tucson, Arizona... it's VERY hot here but I love Arizona. Just started watching y'all's channel and I love it. Keep up the great content and I'll keep watching.👀🌵🌴🌄🕊️🍀🦉❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@detwingz12]

You don’t need good luck for your tests you’re gonna ace them good luck anyhow have a great week guys

[@SevenInchesOfSn0w]

I went through grades 4 to 12 in the 80s. Graduated in '89. Good luckx kiddos. Glad I don'thave exams! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@arthurpasseri4590]

Hope you did great on your tests!! I was a high school student in the early 1970s. Fun times. Fridays in the fall was Football...(American). I was on the soccer team, so I wasn't popular like the Football team members. 🤓

[@iraeaglemind]

Breakfast Club/Sixteen Candles/Saint Elmo's Fire are all great 80s flicks.BC and SC is probably appropriate.SEF is a little adultish.

[@ArmyGrunt1986]

The Breakfast Club is for sure ok for kids, if not than we had some questionable teachers since they would play that movie during lunch/recess in elementary school. Along with The Goonies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kindergarten Cop, and my favorite Jurassic Park. Thats all that I can remember. Oh damm, I just had a memory pop into my head of when I fell in love with Claire Danes when our Lit teacher played the 1996 movie Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and the hottie Claire Danes.

[@denisemiles1787]

I was going to high school in the ghettos of Detroit. We had photo and weapons check to get into the school. 1976-1980. College 1980-1984. No I don’t miss school. Good luck on your final exams

[@RH-ug4nv]

I know you like watching the American planes, if you like the sounds, etc., watch Grunts in the sky, The A10 warthog leaded footage

[@szacktones]

The good ol days when after school we stayed outside until dinner and then back outside until about 9pm. Then play some Atari/ColecoVision and watch some MTV & Fraggle Rock on HBO.

[@thumper7047]

I was a teacher AND a School Bus Driver. I used to reward good behavior more-so then punish bad behavior (every once in a while, a note would have to go home to be signed letting Mom and Dad know Jr was being a distraction. I worked in an area where I would buy a lot of things the toy stores had on clearance and give them away to whom-ever I didn't have to "talk to", then when I moved to an expensive district, I would give out, let's say a match box car (for a boy)_ and before they would love it, in the expensive district the kids were not thrilled, but then I gave stickers on their name tags and each quarter, whomever had the most stickers got a pizza party (or whatever was okay with the parents). So, in the less well-off area, a $3 toy was something. In the high-end areas, a $3 toy was garbage, but a .0001 cent sticker was the *&^(* (go figure). Anyway, I grew up in the70's finished HS in the 80's. Some of those things came along later (after my time). I had a teacher that would rub chalk on the eraser and get it all caked with white powder and then if someone was daydreaming, not paying attention or fell asleep, they would toss it (gently) at them causing a big white cloud of dust. The student would be embarrassed for a moment and class would continue. Today you probably get fired for that. Well, today we have whiteboards. I used to like splitting the class into groups of 2 to 4 and have contests on the subject, like a gameshow. Maybe (For example) You would have boys vs girls in a spelling bee (back when there were only 2 genders of course *sheesh*). I found that I could lecture and assign reading and no one would retain much, but if I could make a game out of it, especially a competition, then suddenly even the slackers would be ready come test day.

[@bradparnell614]

32° is freezing in Fahrenheit. If it was in the 40s in Fahrenheit inside we'd have people in danger of dying from cold. 40° Celsius translates to 104° in Fahrenheit and it's getting there in the US too. Our temps here in the middle of the country are the same as yours right now. I graduated high school in 1983. Just watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" which came out right before my senior year, and "Valley Girl" which came out right after and you'll see what high school was like then.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

I think that as an adult you know how hard life can be. As a child, you don't usually. One thing that children don't understand is that the bad things in school you'll never have to face again once you are on your own. You can avoid people, move away, etc. It may not happen immediately, but you have control to change your own life. However, conversely, the fun memories you had as a child can never be had again. The best you can do is discuss it or, now, watch videos that remind you of things you enjoyed from the past. Kat - my niece loved her "Jellies" (today, you can get a 3D printer to make them!). While hubby may think they look stupid, they look better than Crocs. It's odd that the video didn't mention covering textbooks with brown paper grocery bags (or xmas wrapping paper). The brown paper bags could take stickers all over them and other decoration, just don't write on it with a ball point pen (it put dents in the cover) and don't use ink that might soak through while it was on the book. Don't know if you know the story about Oregon Trail (computer game). It was one of the first "edutainment" games designed by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) which designed games that were educational. Oregon Trail teaches about the crossing of people heading to Oregon to land granted to them by the government. It was not easy, and many people died along the way (many of dysentery). Anyway, each game taught the students how to plan, how to engage in focus and how to handle situations. Another popular game was Lemonade stand, where a student would "buy" sugar, lemons, cups and set a price. If they set a good price, glasses of lemonade would sell and generate profit. Too low and there might not be profit. Too high and there might not be sales. There were other factors like weather, running out of supplies and so on. MECC would be bought out and a lot of corporate crap ensued. HOWEVER, Oregon Trail and some form of Lemonade Stand are available today (probably even on your phone's app store). Great games. My mother used to like Lemonade Stand a lot to decompress. We all need "stupid games" that we can play without having to use our brain much.

[@jenniferburkhammer837]

Do you not have air conditioning in your country??? Love from USA!! Hope your exams went well!!

[@rayNtinayazzie1208]

Y'all need to react to Broken Treaties.(Full documentary) Oregon Experience/ OPB.

[@Melissa-wx4lu]

I always thought that banging erasers thing was something they only did in movies for the longest time. We never did that. It was always the Teacher or the teacher's aid's job. I thought it was magic when I was younger because we would come back to school the next morning with a perfectly clean chalkboard. I also had Jellie shoes. Mine were sandals that were pink with silver glitter. They were my favorite shoes ever. I was also the kid with all the Lisa Frank stuff. My Aunt actually worked for Lisa Frank and she would mail me boxes of stuff all the time. I had every sticker and pencil, I still have my Ballerina Bunny wristwatch still in its case and Ballerina Bunny beach towel. It makes me so happy to see Lisa Frank coming back.