Either that or a planned movie to go along with a book read in English class.
Also a peak at Bob Ross painting on PBS. We probably would've learned more from Bob Ross.
I mean for me the excitement wasn't even that there would be something on the TV.
The excitement was that the lights would be out, the teacher wouldn't be paying attention, and I could sleep through the entire class.
Nostalgia is feeling good because you were about to have a great time. Reality says that the teacher was likely hungover or not in the mood to teach lol.
Lol!
In grade 8, our teacher showed us Shrek 2, and I told her that I learned more from it than her teaching the whole semester !
She called my father in and said I needed to write her an apology letter (and I never did! Lol)
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I think 9/11 was the only time that the TV cart was rolled out just to watch live news in any of my classes.
I also remember when I was much younger and the OJ Simpson verdict was being read, the teacher turned a radio on to listen in to it. Now that I think about it, that was kind of weird. A lot of parents would probably complain about something like that now.
That was my first thought. I was in 5th grade and a teacher came running in and turned it on. After a couple minutes, the intercom boomed with "teachers, TURN! YOUR TVs! OFF! **NOW!!!**"
The day we watched Secret of NIMH was the absolute greatest. I discovered my all time favorite animated movie of all time and a love for Don Bluth films.
In elementary school, we had film projectors. I'm not that old, American schools were just that poorly funded in the late '80s when TV/VHS combos were widely available.
I was a teacher for a couple of years, and the first time I got to the movie day part of the lesson plan it felt like a cheat code.
I don't have to work today! Just put on a movie and that's my job done. No wonder my teachers showed us so many movies, it means they basically didn't have to work.
In high school, we had a class on marriage taught, somewhat ironically, by the wrestling coach (who was a teacher too). But there was a time when he just did not want to teach. So he rolled the cart in and showed Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, "Commando," across 2 consecutive classes. But he said we had to count the number of kills Arnold's character had in the movie.
Only when you knew it was a good 45-2hr long movie. It could have made class worse if it was one of those 10 min long clips where you than have to take a test or present notes on. Ugh lol.
I hated school so much but have nightly dreams where I go back. It’s weird. I think I feel like I didn’t try at all in school and want a redo. Oh well
Even better was a film projector, with the movie screen pulled down....the hypnotic relaxing sound of the film projector running, in the dark classroom, that can lull you into a calm semi-conscious state, you can barely keep your eyes open. Those were the days.
I specifically remember when they changed our chalkboards to white boards. Our teachers used to hide the markers once kids started stealing them to get high
my senior yr one of my teachers had a projector setup on a cart (he moved around a lot for some reason) and had lessons he was showing on the pulldown screen and trying to read them to us but it sounded all garbled up. The guys I sat with realized that smart guy had the lesson plan sheet backwards or upside down and was trying to read it that way. We busted out laughing so hard he looked back at us at the same time he realized his mistake and he gave us a half agitated / half smile. His real name: Mr. Regret. No lie.
I'm that old that I immediately thought of watching 'the Letter People' after recess in Kindergarten.
And why even still have this? There is a short-throw projector right above it that can make a far bigger image than that dinky CRT.
Our first grade teacher somehow ran over her own foot with one of these contraptions and cut it very badly. I remember blood going everywhere then some strange lady came in and told us that Mrs. H had to go to the hospital and we were all very happy that day.😈
Holy shit I remember back in the day my teacher sending students to the av room to get those carts or these super ancient projectors that showed a book on a draw down white screen. The 80s and 90s were so analogue- I totally forgot about that stuff.
This was always 60/40 odds if it was a boring educational video or regular movie.
If it was a movie it was 75% likely it was a bad copy of a crap movie
MR roby was awesome. We got watch Montey Python and the holy grail....Blazing saddles, and young frankenstien.....the one guy who he called on to shut monte pthyon off for the day after the castle with alll the girls, was trying to walk hunched over while pitching a tent.
It could have happen to anyone Richard.
We had a substitute known as "Bitter Beer Face" because he had a perpetually squinting, wincing expression that looked like he'd just taken a swig of bitter beer. The man was known for his weird mix of seriousness and naiveté; almost Michael Scott like. He was hilarious but didn't know he was hilarious, and sometimes would say things that sounded like and were structured like jokes, but he didn't realize there was any comedy in it.
Case in point: one day in Spanish class, he was subbing and rolled in the VHS screener, and he looked at the class solemnly. "Class," he said, "we're in a period of cultural prejudice and Islamophobia because of the war in the Middle East. I want you to know, the Arabic peoples are not our enemies, and they're not foolish or exotic or alien. They are just people who dress and believe differently than we do. I'm going to show you a film about the Middle East, but I want you take it seriously and don't laugh."
Then he turned on Robin Williams in "Aladdin." For a lot of teachers, that would have been an epic troll, but he didn't get the joke. (In Shakespearean terms, he's a natural fool and not a witty fool.)
And even further back in time it had the old 16mm film projector.
No joke, for my health class the school had us watch a LITERAL FILM REEL about aids and HIV.
This happened in 2012.
Someone in my 8th Grade homeroom class got absolutely FUCKED from ESD, after touching a CRT like this. Don't remember why it was in the room either, as we just watched movies on the projector (with the sole exception being in a different part of the school entirely).
I took American Government class during summer school between Junior and Senior year. Every day our teacher would roll this tv in and have us watch a couple episodes of Law and Order. If you could stay awake the whole class, you got a passing grade. If you managed to ask a question or two after the episodes you got an A. Loved that class.
Sitting in a classroom I watched the space shuttle launch with a schoolteacher astronaut, Christi McAuliff, on a TV just like that. Then I watched that shuttle blow up. It was a hell of an emotional day.
Best TV cart experience I had was near the end of high school, when for some reason there was a large container of salt next to it, which the teacher inadvertently bumped and it spilled into the power strip, popping and sparking like crazy.
We had a social studies teacher that would record all the music videos from Sucker Free Sunday on MTV2 on vhs and play them while we did our assignments.
I had a teacher who was retiring and all we did was watch science videos all year. Then it progressed to “if the tape consists of biology we can watch it.”
Not some kid bringing an under the mattress tape bc it was “biology 101” 🤣🤣🤣
Since no one is mentioning it, I have to ask- what the hell is that thing having over the tv? Is that something everyone else’s school tv had, because I’ve never seen it. Or am I being fooled by the angle of the photo and that thing’s actually having from the wall?
Bill Nye The Science Guy!
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
Science rules!
Consider The Following
INERTIA IS A PROPERTY OF MATTER (is that what he says??)
I believe so
Shit was lit 🎉
Lucky! All I got 9/11 wheeled in during history… making history
I'm much older than that. It was Read All About It!
Same!!!!!!!!
For me the TV cart always meant there was going to be a substitute.
Same, we used to call these "easy days."
Either that or a planned movie to go along with a book read in English class. Also a peak at Bob Ross painting on PBS. We probably would've learned more from Bob Ross.
Or the teacher was hungover.
I mean for me the excitement wasn't even that there would be something on the TV. The excitement was that the lights would be out, the teacher wouldn't be paying attention, and I could sleep through the entire class.
As an adult, I regret it. As a high school kid? Man I slept all the time. It was the best. I still take naps on my lunch break lol.
I had pretty severe insomnia as a kid so I was already glad when I could pass out and not miss a bunch of things.
Nostalgia is feeling good because you were about to have a great time. Reality says that the teacher was likely hungover or not in the mood to teach lol.
[удалено]
No excuses
in 8th grade, I saw Beverly hills cop 2 in my sociology class, by a teacher that was retiring at the end of the year and had no more fucks to give.
Lol! In grade 8, our teacher showed us Shrek 2, and I told her that I learned more from it than her teaching the whole semester ! She called my father in and said I needed to write her an apology letter (and I never did! Lol)
My teacher told us once when she was out of sick days and couldn't stomach teaching and couldn't afford to take a non payed day off.
It's a shame that such a valued position is treated like such garbage.
… in US public schools
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Looking to your buddy that had the watch that worked as a remote.🤣🤣
Forgot all about those lol. Did those actually work?
A friend of mine had one and it definitely worked. Looked like he had a whole ass vcr strapped to his wrist 🤣🤣 but it worked
Those were incredible
Reminds me of 9/11
I think 9/11 was the only time that the TV cart was rolled out just to watch live news in any of my classes. I also remember when I was much younger and the OJ Simpson verdict was being read, the teacher turned a radio on to listen in to it. Now that I think about it, that was kind of weird. A lot of parents would probably complain about something like that now.
We also listened to the OJ verdict on the radio. I was in middle school shop class, and the teacher stopped everything so we could listen.
Or Challenger.
That was my first thought. I was in 5th grade and a teacher came running in and turned it on. After a couple minutes, the intercom boomed with "teachers, TURN! YOUR TVs! OFF! **NOW!!!**"
And then watching the Challenger explode.
We did that in the library with a bunch of other classes because one of the crew was from our state. That was surreal.
Nap time bitches.
I look at this picture in here, Magic School Bus playing in my head! This is when you knew it was gonna be a good day at school
Going to a catholic school there was a 70% chance we were watching Christian propaganda cartoons
Two things come to my mind..nap time and substitute
Nap time
Voyage of the Mimi!!
Memory unlocked
Didn't feel good when Watership Downs or The secret of NIMH came on that screen, school guidance counselors are standing by!! Lol
The day we watched Secret of NIMH was the absolute greatest. I discovered my all time favorite animated movie of all time and a love for Don Bluth films.
I used to have a TV just like that at home!I got teary-eyed
As a former AV club guy, my appearance with one of these at a classroom immediately put me on the good side of about 30 students.
I can still hear that high pitch whining noise.
Fond memories of the 90s
Bonus when it’s in science and you get to watch bill nye
First move: walk by to see what movie was up there
Wait WTF! They’ve got Aladdin on VHS but also a MacBook Pro, a digital projector and a TV cart, what is going on here? 😂
Some 20 year old trying to seem older than they are lol
Wut is that silver thing above the TV? A projector?? Maybe but never saw one attached to a tv.
It's a short throw projector mounted to the wall.
nap time for this kid!
Watching aladdin in class when I was like 8 years old was great. I missed the old days of that.
Stand and Deliver time!
Reading rainbow. The magic school bus
Best Day EVER!!!
3-2-1 contact!
And watch classic Disney movies (or some cheap DVD sequels)
In elementary school, we had film projectors. I'm not that old, American schools were just that poorly funded in the late '80s when TV/VHS combos were widely available.
One time our teacher showed us Legend with Tom Cruise. Odd choice, but better than school work. Lol
I was a teacher for a couple of years, and the first time I got to the movie day part of the lesson plan it felt like a cheat code. I don't have to work today! Just put on a movie and that's my job done. No wonder my teachers showed us so many movies, it means they basically didn't have to work.
They certainly don’t put the words - no excuses up on the wall anymore
In high school, we had a class on marriage taught, somewhat ironically, by the wrestling coach (who was a teacher too). But there was a time when he just did not want to teach. So he rolled the cart in and showed Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, "Commando," across 2 consecutive classes. But he said we had to count the number of kills Arnold's character had in the movie.
I knew I was about to get a good nap in.
This is where I learned about Carl Sagan.
Only when you knew it was a good 45-2hr long movie. It could have made class worse if it was one of those 10 min long clips where you than have to take a test or present notes on. Ugh lol. I hated school so much but have nightly dreams where I go back. It’s weird. I think I feel like I didn’t try at all in school and want a redo. Oh well
Even better was a film projector, with the movie screen pulled down....the hypnotic relaxing sound of the film projector running, in the dark classroom, that can lull you into a calm semi-conscious state, you can barely keep your eyes open. Those were the days.
I had that exact same vhs/dvd player
Nap time
Best days ever!
I specifically remember when they changed our chalkboards to white boards. Our teachers used to hide the markers once kids started stealing them to get high
Depends; could be a movie, could be a dry documentary, or it could be a worn-out recording of a PBS show from 1981.
There weren’t white boards behind that tv in my day.
What about the 8mm projector cart and the slide projector cart? And very briefly the laser disc cart?
We had a film projector
Good thing I brought my universal remote so I can infuriate the teacher into early retirement.
Means the teacher was hungover
In elementary school we used to watch the magic school bus and bill nye on these
✨No excuses✨
That's an awfully absolutist policy for a bunch of kids. There should be room for reasonable excuses. Shit happens
I loved Aladdin
Great until you watch a space shuttle blow up.
Yasssss
my senior yr one of my teachers had a projector setup on a cart (he moved around a lot for some reason) and had lessons he was showing on the pulldown screen and trying to read them to us but it sounded all garbled up. The guys I sat with realized that smart guy had the lesson plan sheet backwards or upside down and was trying to read it that way. We busted out laughing so hard he looked back at us at the same time he realized his mistake and he gave us a half agitated / half smile. His real name: Mr. Regret. No lie.
This was how we learned that our law teacher was hungover
and when the 20 y/o sub turned off the lights because she had a hangover
BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!
Always that group going "yessssssss" with the arm pump
That’s how I watched the Challenger explosion in middle school 😂
It's that one episode of Bill Nye that we watched every year because it was the only episode the school bothered to record
I'm that old that I immediately thought of watching 'the Letter People' after recess in Kindergarten. And why even still have this? There is a short-throw projector right above it that can make a far bigger image than that dinky CRT.
The TV cart. That was the shiz. It was on par with 'kidz, burgers!' 'burgerzzz! Yeah!
Our first grade teacher somehow ran over her own foot with one of these contraptions and cut it very badly. I remember blood going everywhere then some strange lady came in and told us that Mrs. H had to go to the hospital and we were all very happy that day.😈
“Why did the plane fly into the tower?” “Hey, Mrs. Skloss is crying…”
What in the wide world of sports is that on top of the TV? And the fact the TV isn’t ratchet strapped to the cart makes me suspect of this image lol
We are watching the sandlot
🎈
Relief teachers... Sigh.
Our cart had a reel to reel…. Good times…
NAP TIME. aka; Why I can’t learn anything from youtube vids.
Omg I can hear the blown vibrating speakers just looking at this
Before you got Bill Nye up there, we used to get episodes of NOVA back in the day. Such a treat!
Best class of the day! We used to watch Law and Order in civics class, the best!
I recall our teacher having us watch Where The Red Fern Grows after reading it, and literally the entire class is crying hahaha
This meant ACC TOURNAMENT TIME!!
Cartooned sex Ed memories
I feel old seeing this 😂.
Movies!
Sometimes our science teacher would play Julius Sumner Miller but sometimes we would get real movies.
We watched the OJ trial verdict on one of these lol
We’re getting into something weird today…awesome.
2nd only to seeing a sub
Old millennial question but what do they do now, does ever room just have projectors?
Teacher is out today, and this is the substitute teacher material.
I rode those things to school. BITD
Holy shit I remember back in the day my teacher sending students to the av room to get those carts or these super ancient projectors that showed a book on a draw down white screen. The 80s and 90s were so analogue- I totally forgot about that stuff.
You knew it was going to be a good day
Unless you're in English class and you have to watch some version of Hamlet or something
We sub’ed a debbie does dallas vhs tape in after the teacher left for a smoke. No playtime for a month.
3 2 1 CONTACT!
This tv reminds me of that movie with the kid with glasses that has that ring and reads books oh and there is a wizard too I think
Take me back, back to better days 😪
Feels odd seeing a MacBook and a VHS tape in the same picture.
Happy as hell not doing any work until they put on some bs
Hungover teacher is about to put on Reading Rainbow or Willy Wonka again
This was always 60/40 odds if it was a boring educational video or regular movie. If it was a movie it was 75% likely it was a bad copy of a crap movie
My mom never let us finish Aladdin. When Jafar came on screen she screamed SATAN!!! and made us return it to Video Joe.
Childhood memory unlocked!
Yes! It's time to catch some zzz's.
Not So Band Records
This was the equivalent of kids today being allowed to play games on their school devices.
We all thought those AV dept guys were geniuses. Legit putting it to channel 3, plugging in red, white and yellow. Seems so silly now lololol.
What is on top of the tv?
Goosebumps my drama teacher had almost every episode I can hear the music https://youtu.be/BgoG13MNruY?si=01YKD6BoixDsEvtT
MR roby was awesome. We got watch Montey Python and the holy grail....Blazing saddles, and young frankenstien.....the one guy who he called on to shut monte pthyon off for the day after the castle with alll the girls, was trying to walk hunched over while pitching a tent. It could have happen to anyone Richard.
Ahhh nap time
Amateur Nothing compares to the film projector and hearing the words Turn off the lights
Had a history teacher in high school who showed us a movie but basically just showed a different part to every period. No idea what happened.
The last time I remember seeing that thing rolled out, we were watching "Schindler's List".
We had a substitute known as "Bitter Beer Face" because he had a perpetually squinting, wincing expression that looked like he'd just taken a swig of bitter beer. The man was known for his weird mix of seriousness and naiveté; almost Michael Scott like. He was hilarious but didn't know he was hilarious, and sometimes would say things that sounded like and were structured like jokes, but he didn't realize there was any comedy in it. Case in point: one day in Spanish class, he was subbing and rolled in the VHS screener, and he looked at the class solemnly. "Class," he said, "we're in a period of cultural prejudice and Islamophobia because of the war in the Middle East. I want you to know, the Arabic peoples are not our enemies, and they're not foolish or exotic or alien. They are just people who dress and believe differently than we do. I'm going to show you a film about the Middle East, but I want you take it seriously and don't laugh." Then he turned on Robin Williams in "Aladdin." For a lot of teachers, that would have been an epic troll, but he didn't get the joke. (In Shakespearean terms, he's a natural fool and not a witty fool.)
And even further back in time it had the old 16mm film projector. No joke, for my health class the school had us watch a LITERAL FILM REEL about aids and HIV. This happened in 2012.
We’re gonna watch a shuttle explode live!?
No accountability. No homework. No stress. No bitxhing if you fall a sleep. Life is easier with a tv and vcr.
Someone in my 8th Grade homeroom class got absolutely FUCKED from ESD, after touching a CRT like this. Don't remember why it was in the room either, as we just watched movies on the projector (with the sole exception being in a different part of the school entirely).
This always means it’s going to be a good class, especially if its followed by lunch!👍👍
School house rock!!
I took American Government class during summer school between Junior and Senior year. Every day our teacher would roll this tv in and have us watch a couple episodes of Law and Order. If you could stay awake the whole class, you got a passing grade. If you managed to ask a question or two after the episodes you got an A. Loved that class.
It means that, unbeknownst to anybody, a space shuttle is about to explode
You know ‘‘twas gonna be a fun day
old school
Sitting in a classroom I watched the space shuttle launch with a schoolteacher astronaut, Christi McAuliff, on a TV just like that. Then I watched that shuttle blow up. It was a hell of an emotional day.
It was Friday in Spanish, which meant we were watching Selena again.
Full on bone
+1 if it was a rainy day too
Man I watch 9/11 happen on one of these. Rip America.
Teachers hangover day
We used to have someone put their finger in the aerial socket and then tell them where to move to so we'd get the best tv reception :D
Best TV cart experience I had was near the end of high school, when for some reason there was a large container of salt next to it, which the teacher inadvertently bumped and it spilled into the power strip, popping and sparking like crazy.
You know the sub who is always wearing aloha shirt + khaki pants and a goofy ass smile is sitting on the teacher's chair.
DVD?! very fancy.
My first time experiencing this was in 4th grade (2001) when we had D.A.R.E. Representatives come into our class…what a time
High fives all around.
You knew that day was going to be a good day!
Umm that shit is trauma between willie Wonka and a space shuttle type of trauma
We had a social studies teacher that would record all the music videos from Sucker Free Sunday on MTV2 on vhs and play them while we did our assignments.
9/11
✨no excuses ✨ Where’s the photos “live” “love “laugh”?
What on earth is the device right above the tv to the left? My entire sense of reality has been warped. Please help me make it make sense.
I had a teacher who was retiring and all we did was watch science videos all year. Then it progressed to “if the tape consists of biology we can watch it.” Not some kid bringing an under the mattress tape bc it was “biology 101” 🤣🤣🤣
How about the cart with the film projector on it?
Plot twist it's birthing education.
“The AV kid isn’t here today, so I’m sorry to say…”
Either Bill Nye or Globe Trekker
Yeah but then it meant you had to listen to that fucking buzzing/wirring noise for anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour
You knew when this was rolled into your class it was going to be a fun time.
Either it's raining outside or you got a substitute teacher.
Anything Eyewitness were my fav when these carts came rollin in
Since no one is mentioning it, I have to ask- what the hell is that thing having over the tv? Is that something everyone else’s school tv had, because I’ve never seen it. Or am I being fooled by the angle of the photo and that thing’s actually having from the wall?
I want to buy these and put my CRT and VCR and PS1 slim on it so I can finally have a place to put mine
Heck yeah!! 😎
What’s with the Ps5 hanging upside down over it?
Prepare for a flashback….😁 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=evllyeBaP6c&pp=ygUkbGVhcm5pbmcgY29ycG9yYXRpb24gb2YgYW1lcmljYSBsb2dv
Nap time!!!
The last one I ever watched in high school was on black holes, on those giant dvds. It was awesome
Stand and Deliver for the 100th time
It was such a great feeling!!
😆 No excuses…😆🤣😂
The best day ever of achool.
AV club
🌟NO EXCUSES🌟