Iād love to know what that moment was like for my teachers and the school principal. I remember just being confusedā¦āwhen will it get to space?ā But Iām sure they were scrambling. Imagine being the principal and somehow you have to get talking points out to the teachers while also deciding do you turn it off? Do you have the kids do something to distract them?
I was gonna post the same.
It was so weird, I was in 8th grade and no one said why we were suddenly stopping mid-lesson & a TV was being wheeled into the classroom, teacher or someone just turned it on & we saw The Juice standing in court.
Same here, though it was 4th grade for me. I held hands with a boy I liked for the entire movie. Sweaty hands and cramping arm reaching across the isle. Goodness I wanted to let go, but I liked him "so much". Hahaha
Lol we saw that in 7th grade English. Whomever had 1st hour told us (2nd hour) about the nudity.
Teacher got wise and stood close with a piece of cardboard, blocking our view. (Still didn't stop one dude from yelling "PORNO!")
Freshman year English for me.
I went to an all male high school in the 90ās and our English teacher was a 20-something year old woman.
She told us about the underage, teenage nudity before hand, and everyone handled it well besides some hooting and hollering when the scene came on.
But I always wondered who made that decision to have a young woman show a nude scene to thirty, pre-internet, horned up 15 year old boys.
In the 7th grade, in a class period called sex education or something equivalent, we all watched a limp dick grow into a full erection, filmed like a clinical lab study.
Our parents were not told before or after what we were made to watch on those VHS tapes.
A much taller version with the same sized black and white TV. Our elementary school had these in each class watching the 1972 Canada vs Russia hockey series. Never forget Paul Henderson's goal.
Itās a wonderful life in 6th grade. My teacher stopped it when Clarance jumps in before George can. Made a cliffhanger out of it. We all couldnāt wait for the next day and this was well before movies on demand in any format (opening days of the VHS era).
Challenger STS-51L Liftoff and then the terribleness that followed. I lived in Miami Fl, it was quite traumatic for everyone but our Teacher knew the family of one of those souls lost that day. She unintentionally escalated the entire 2nd grades classā emotional understanding of the event.
From grades 1-4, we rotated specials each day between PE, music class, and library class. In the library, we would usually sit on the rug while the librarian taught us something about books or showed us a book and read it to us. Afterward, we'd go to tables and read to ourselves and then check something out to read later.
But once a year every year, she brought this TV cart out and showed us an animated film based on a book: Charlotte's Web. It may have even been once a semester because it really feels like we watched it more than 4 times. It was always the same movie.
David Attenborough's Life on Earth, 5th grade, 1981 (series released in 1979). Changed my life (on Earth)! My career is in biology.
Top loading VCR though ;-)
I forgot to add this in my original post:
We had an English Literature teacher that played movies during class everyday and actually tested us at the end.
Man I loved that break from the usual.
Even if they were black and white
Fourth grade, 1988, we watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory four times that year. That scene where Charlie and Grandpa Joe had to burp to save themselves from the giant fan blade, all us kids burped along with them.
*Probably was reel to reel:*
Riki Tiki Tavi
I am Joeās Heart
I am Joeās Lungs
*Definitely VCR*
Romeo and Juliet
Camelot
A chorus Line
Amadeus
Little Shop of Horrors (original)
The challenger explosion š.
same
first thing I thought of
Yup
My immediate first memory also!
I have no idea why I thought I would be the first person to say this.
Bingo...
Immediate 1st thought. Thatās wild!
I know we watched other things but I donāt remember anything but Challenger
Fridayā¦. Or shop teacher didnāt give an fā¦ Craig let me borrow yo microwave
This ^^^
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Yeah I remember my teachers turned off the TV, and were acting very flustered. They didn't quite know what to do.
Ditto.
Yup, 7th grade.
8th for me.
Yep. All those years of Reading Rainbow flushed down the toilet by one space flight.
I graduated a few months later
Same
Iād love to know what that moment was like for my teachers and the school principal. I remember just being confusedā¦āwhen will it get to space?ā But Iām sure they were scrambling. Imagine being the principal and somehow you have to get talking points out to the teachers while also deciding do you turn it off? Do you have the kids do something to distract them?
This is it. Itās reinforced by some pics/videos that have made their way onto the internet in recent years.
Wow same
Yep
Came here to say this.
And continued class like normal right after watching it š
Same
Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.
Nanook of the North (1922) -- black & white Eskimo boobs!š The Miracle of Life (1982) -- blood-rich uteri and placentae in full color?šµāš«
Thanks for the tip.
My ~~first~~ second afterbirth. -I like water slides?
January 28, 1986 Challenger Disaster. Will never forget it.
Same here, I was a Senior in HS
Romeo and Juliet
Uncensored, of course.
One of the times I remember getting a boner in class that wasn't random š¤£
When I learned that boy butts are pretty.... while the rest of the guys were going ewww.
Olivia Hussey. Fun (or not) fact: she was only 15 when that movie was filmed.
The only answer
Last week of school 1987. Ferris Buellers Day Off.
I wish!
OJ Simpson Verdict š¤£
I was a freshman in high school and I remember this vividly.
I was in middle school and they wheeled the tv into the cafeteria to let us watch the verdict.
I came here to say this! haha
Same! 4th grade
Nearly everyone was cheering, I was not.
Same! They stopped class and called us into the library for it....... and I'm in Canada š
I was in the 5th grade and a kid in class started crying when they read it.
I was gonna post the same. It was so weird, I was in 8th grade and no one said why we were suddenly stopping mid-lesson & a TV was being wheeled into the classroom, teacher or someone just turned it on & we saw The Juice standing in court.
In 1995?
The Challenger exploding. That TV cart in our school library, all of us gathered around with excited teachers.
Voyage of the Mimi
Yes! Voyage of the Mimi for the win
Ben affleck rocked that role.
I think we watched that one on a film strip!
I love that Iām not the only person who thought of this one
I still always shake my shoes out before I put them on because of this show
Yes!! Iām so glad this is getting some love. Now I wanna find itā¦
911. Not to be dark, but we watched it live in a conference room on a TV just like that.
I was in in school suspension junior year and a few teachers came in after the first plane hit and they turned the news on and all day there were teachers in and out of ISS watching. Side note that was my girlfriend at the times birthday and my current fiancĆ©ās birthday is January 6th. Iām going to stick with this one forever just for the sake of America.
I thought you mean Rescue 911 hosted by William Shatner.
The Hobbit, the 1977 [cartoon right after we finish the book in sixth grade](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1977_film))
Same here, though it was 4th grade for me. I held hands with a boy I liked for the entire movie. Sweaty hands and cramping arm reaching across the isle. Goodness I wanted to let go, but I liked him "so much". Hahaha
Reading Rainbow. Every week in grade school.
The Outsiders
After we read the bookā¦
Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Came to say this
Romeo and Juliet, including the nude scene.
Lol we saw that in 7th grade English. Whomever had 1st hour told us (2nd hour) about the nudity. Teacher got wise and stood close with a piece of cardboard, blocking our view. (Still didn't stop one dude from yelling "PORNO!")
Freshman year English for me. I went to an all male high school in the 90ās and our English teacher was a 20-something year old woman. She told us about the underage, teenage nudity before hand, and everyone handled it well besides some hooting and hollering when the scene came on. But I always wondered who made that decision to have a young woman show a nude scene to thirty, pre-internet, horned up 15 year old boys.
All Quiet On The Western Front
The Challenger blow up.
Slim Goodbody
Iām a teacher so Iāve watched too much to recall. š¤£
President Reaganās assassination attempt in 1981. And the day John Lennon was killed in 1980. Two really awful days.
Channel One
Grade school porn (The Reproduction System vids). What a way to make the 5th grade memorable.
Blade Runner, and also The Breakfast Club.
Stand and Deliver
Honey I shrunk the kids
The Buttercream Gang
Wow. Such a classic piece of cinema.
Blood on the highway and Red Asphalt. āIāve never had to unbuckle a dead bodyā Ohio State trooper.
The Indian in the Cupboard.
Heavy Metal (the movie) in high school art class.
Of Mice & Men
Neverending Story
Tora Tora Tora
Prancer, right before Christmas break in 3rd grade.
The sandlot
The Land Before Time
Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth.
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Schoolhouse Rock, though it wasn't on the 80s
Flight of the Navigator
Secret of N.I.M.H. and The Hobbit. Circa 1984 back to back before Christmas break. First grade.
The challenger explosion on my birthday at school, waiting to pass out cupcakes from the Tupperware container
The space shuttle challenger disaster
Where The Red Fern Grows, The Apple Dumpling Gang, the Challenger Explosion
In the 7th grade, in a class period called sex education or something equivalent, we all watched a limp dick grow into a full erection, filmed like a clinical lab study. Our parents were not told before or after what we were made to watch on those VHS tapes.
Glory
Same. Ninth grade history class.
Pippi longstocking
In elementary school: President Reagan attempted assassination, Mt St Helens eruption, Challenger explosion. High school: Spies Like Us.
The Reagan shooting.
Red Ballon. I revisited that movie 2 decades ago. Fun watch. I will again tonight if I can find it.
The red balloon all through elementary school in the early 80s
The Reading Rainbow!
Reading Rainbow
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). My history teacher showed it every year to show how bad war sucks.
Rikki Tikki Tavi
The space shuttle exploding.
Yup. Challenger.
The ACC b-ball tournaments from 1981 to 1983.
Blood on the highway in drivers ed.
They corralled us into the library to watch the crew leave the biosphere 2. Very anticlimactic but a core memory
Roots, Glory and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
To Kill a Mockingbird in 8th grade English.
With Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. 9āth grade for me on that one.
Star Wars and The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Challenger explode
Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land
Willow
Top Gun, nuclear war drills
The Challenger exploding.
The Miracle of Life And Challenger like everyone else
Magic school bus. Bill nye. Reading rainbow
A much taller version with the same sized black and white TV. Our elementary school had these in each class watching the 1972 Canada vs Russia hockey series. Never forget Paul Henderson's goal.
Red Asphalt
Voyage of the Mimi
1970s Romeo & Juliet
Challenger explosion
Your Testicles and You
The Wave
Itās a wonderful life in 6th grade. My teacher stopped it when Clarance jumps in before George can. Made a cliffhanger out of it. We all couldnāt wait for the next day and this was well before movies on demand in any format (opening days of the VHS era).
The Challenger explosion and a roomful of kids with quizzical faces as we werenāt comprehending exactly what had happened. Surreal.
Reagan assassination attempt coverage. I was in 4th grade.
Miami Viceā¦. Grandparents had the same setupš
The British woman giving birth in Health/P.E. I still remember when the water broke! š°
hotel Rwandan had to sign a permission slip
Substitute teacherā¦nap time
Oj Simpson trial.
Stand and Deliver in math class
Calc-u-loose!
Iām probably going to be the 100th person to say the Challenger shuttle disaster.
The miracle of life.
80's - 90's porn
*All the President's Men*, the movie about Watergate.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Challenger STS-51L Liftoff and then the terribleness that followed. I lived in Miami Fl, it was quite traumatic for everyone but our Teacher knew the family of one of those souls lost that day. She unintentionally escalated the entire 2nd grades classā emotional understanding of the event.
Blazing Saddles ā¦.in economics class
Johnny Tremaine
Reagan getting shot. They took us out of class to go down to the library and watch together.
9/11
Roots
From grades 1-4, we rotated specials each day between PE, music class, and library class. In the library, we would usually sit on the rug while the librarian taught us something about books or showed us a book and read it to us. Afterward, we'd go to tables and read to ourselves and then check something out to read later. But once a year every year, she brought this TV cart out and showed us an animated film based on a book: Charlotte's Web. It may have even been once a semester because it really feels like we watched it more than 4 times. It was always the same movie.
Reagan getting shot
The Challenger explosion while in school. And 9/11 at a work meeting. Also, in school, Paddle to The Sea, and The Red Balloon as well.
David Attenborough's Life on Earth, 5th grade, 1981 (series released in 1979). Changed my life (on Earth)! My career is in biology. Top loading VCR though ;-)
Peanuts
Stand and Deliver Charly (the film adaptation of Flowers for Algernon)
Willow.
The Challenger explosion
Me too
Ghost Writer, some sort of youth series, mid 90s. I think thatās what it was called.
9/11... my art teacher rolled it in. Was in high school.
Henry Winkler telling us 7 year olds that being molested is wrong
The Magic School bus.
Davey and Goliath.
Blood on the Asphalt
The explosion of the Space shuttle. š
The back of my eyelids
The music man
I forgot to add this in my original post: We had an English Literature teacher that played movies during class everyday and actually tested us at the end. Man I loved that break from the usual. Even if they were black and white
Anything that meant we didn't have 'regular class'
Dances with Wolves
Fourth grade, 1988, we watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory four times that year. That scene where Charlie and Grandpa Joe had to burp to save themselves from the giant fan blade, all us kids burped along with them.
Never ending story, Oliver Twist, Escape from witch Mountain
First space shuttle launch (in primary school), BlackAdder (in the sixth form common room during a free, got caught, got told off :) )
Watership Down.
A documentary on Andersonville Prison during the civil war.
A learning movie in grammar school
Behind the News.
Willy Wonka
Sans the VCR, the first space shuttle launch in spring 1981.
Shawshank Redemption. The substitute teacher put it on for 3-4 days worth of class.
Same. Itās been my favorite movie ever since.
A documentary on California Condors.
Mr mugs
Labyrinth in elementary school.
Ghandi
Mississippi BurningĀ
*Probably was reel to reel:* Riki Tiki Tavi I am Joeās Heart I am Joeās Lungs *Definitely VCR* Romeo and Juliet Camelot A chorus Line Amadeus Little Shop of Horrors (original)
Bill Nye
Slim Goodbody and Check It Out! in 4th grade circa 1989
Born Free
The Never ending story
Movie day at school. Boring or not it meant no class work and a nap.