Yes, and my teachers name was Mrs.Cooper, and she would pass around a toy shoe, as we had to learn to tie shoes.. If you couldn't do it, she would make you lay your hand across the desk and smack it with the ruler. She looked to be in her 60's, very strict and I didn't like kindergarten at all. 1/2 day was too long for me. My father would drop me off, and I would just be bawling, lol. I came from the old school, they could use a strap, and so on. But we didn't get too far out of line, as we knew the strap would be used. I was petrified of the ruler, so I practiced when I went home and learned to tie shoes so I would not get the ole ruler across the knuckles. That memory has stayed forever with me.

Nope.

My parents kept me at home or rather mostly by my mom. Being stuck at home all the time with NO previous social interaction made the first days at school terrifying.

That might just be one more facet of why I have stayed for the most part alone most of my life.

I wanted to go to kindergarten, but it was too expensive. We used to pass by a great one in the car. It had a big play ground in the back yard. I never noticed that the kids that went to kindergarten were any smarter than those of us that hadn't in the first grade. By the time I started school, I knew the alphabet, could write my name(If you knew my last name, you'd think that was quite an accomplishment.) and read a little bit. I learned to read by following a guy on the radio that read the Sunday comics as we followed along.

In my state the first part of 1st grade was called "Primer" which was like Kindergarten and we played in the table sandbox mostly. Great fun to learn about Dick and Jane and Spot.

I did go to Kindergarten...I remember my Mother leaving me there and I cried,,,finally got use to it and had to have a little rug for nap time lol,,,and we had roller skates with the key around our necks to tighten them when they came loose,,oh my how those memories return!

I did go to Kindergarten...I remember my Mother leaving me there and I cried,,,finally got use to it and had to have a little rug for nap time lol,,,and we had roller skates with the key around our necks to tighten them when they came loose,,oh my how those memories return!

I didnt get to attend Kindergarten, I think that was the time my dad was building us new house and mom didnt even enter her head to think about me.

I do remember first grade I was so scared the first day, I just sit in my chair and wet my pants cause I didnt know where the bathroom was or what to do. This big lady was standing up there talking and thats all I remember.

Man poopy ~ What happened to yer eye??

I went to country school ... Four rooms, 1 - 6 Got beat with books Guess if ya didn't read em ~ ya got them one way or another!

My mom got me a fake elastic watch. Some kid in the reading circle asked me what time it was BOOM I got hit on the head with the SEE SPOT RUN! Didn't come to until EIGHTH GRADE!!

These 2 twin boys 12 yrs old in 6th grade switched places one day ~ Mrs Lewis DRUG them out in the hall MAN just like Batman you heard WHAM BAM BANG They came in all beat up ONE had his sleeve shoulder all ripped off & ALL ~ Book was hangin by it's binders...HEY Never switched places AGAIN!!

This one boy (13) in 6th grade followed Mrs Lewis around the room with a MIRROR strapped on top of his PLOW BOY boots HE GOT PADDLED couldn't EVEN come TO SCHOOL for a week!!

SORRY I got carried away ~ Just wanted to paint a picture here so ya'd get the idea...

I know I went but don't remember it. I went to public schools so no additional expense for me to go.

They didn't have kindergarten in our school. We only had about 8 kids in our first grade class. The teacher was a witch----she kept on yelling at me to write with the right hand and not the left (but she gave me A's in penmanship---go figure that out ???) I really hated her and cried running all through town to where my dad owned his own business. I kept thinking wait until I get down there to my dad's place and tell him, he will stick up for me, he will tell her to leave me alone. AND guess what he did just that ---he went up there and told her to leave me alone to write with whatever hand I wanted to. He was my HERO----I miss him so much.

I remember going to kindergarten some -- I cried when my Dad left me there -- I had a bad nosebleed one day and it just didnt want to stop

LOL,,so are you right handed or left handed Barbie? Neat Story,,,

Notdead,,,what a funny story about the boy with a mirror on his boot,,,too funny,,,,I bet he has that memory and gets laughs when he tells the story eh?

Barbie I too am left handed. My teacher in gramar school, Mrs. King would sneak up behind me and smack me on the hand with a ruler to make me use my right hand.
As soon as she walked by I would change right back to the left:-]

went to ballet school BEFORE i went to kindergarten actually. lol. and i went to some other kind of school, free-form not really called anything but taught whatever you could do kind of thing, i think also a day camp before kindergarten.

i liked kindergarten. was my favorite grade for public school, but i'm not a fan of public school. i liked the cubbies they had. it still impresses me when i recall them now. i liked snack time and rest time. i liked the clay and we did some dances in kindergarten as well and they had a piano and story time. i also remember leaving one day, i guess i felt like it. and attempting to walk home on my own. lol. and after i was allowed to walk there on my own, i occasionally would decide to pick flowers (weeds) around the block and then return home around two hours later and my mother was like WHAT are you doing? lol. the first time i think she thought it was funny, but later on it wasn't. have to get serious. there are always the negatives as well. but i think there were less negatives in kindergarten than in other grades. the kids were taken out who couldn't handle it, compared to the chaos that ensues in other grades when unruliness is mainstreamed. we even had a kid in kindergarten who stole EVERYONE'S clay. she wanted it all for herself. her parents put her in special ed and she would brag that in special ed she had as much clay as she wanted, like that was the point of kindergarten. stuff like that always confused everyone else, can't they catch the problems earlier. she had attempted kindergarten before and was a problem every time, that kid was a thief all the way through grammar school and into adulthood. they start early, the kids that steal your barbie car when you are in kindergarten will steal your real car when you are an adult. they don't change. grrrr.

Yes, two, my parents moved in the middle of it. It was hard, but I made friends fast at the new school.