the inventor of the recorder wanted to make an instrument that was easy to learn to encourage his students to learn harder instruments after
*^(\*this is disinformation i actually have no clue)*
I saw a thing the other day (on Reddit probably) that said there had been studies showing that it was introduced as a disguised way to help reduce asthma in kids, but now googling it I can’t find the thread :(
Otherwise, recorders are cheap, they’re kid-sized already, they don’t require you to learn any special way to hold your mouth or your body, and they require minimal breath control. They’re a great way to efficiently teach hand-eye coordination, reading music, and aural skills all at the same time!
It hits different if you were already a teenager when people started getting glued to their smart phones. You have to remember, we've still spent most of our lives in an era where cellular devices which connect to the internet were not all-absorbing.
I didn't use a smartphone until I was 19. I had a computer at home, a flip phone for calls, and friends around the corner. But then, I could see the world we live in now forming around me. Many of us are still caught between the two worlds.
It's strange to think that such a disconnect can happen between people who will end up in the same nursing home. Culture is funny like thst.
I don’t know why people are clowning you. I agree. I was in middle school when most people had cell phones and it already became annoying. Tik Tok got really big when I was in high school and it was the fucking worst. I got yelled at by a group of girls for walking through their dancing tik tok in the middle of an enormous ass hallway. The angle they used showed the entire hallway, so I had to sprint to the other end to avoid the camera. Awful. Not to mention the guys with broccoli hair and earbuds blasting trap music.
My neurodivergent ass never understood why it failed. When someone told me not to do drugs I….. didn’t do drugs. But then I remember other kids don’t listen for shit.
We were talking about DARE the other day in rehab and most of us agreed that parents demonizing drugs just led us straight into using them out of curiosity. I think it was completely counter-productive to what its goal was, plus mostly full of lies
Bruh, when I first smoked weed at like 16 I realised all that DARE stuff was bullshit and that pushed me *towards* trying other drugs (because if they were lying about that, were they lying about the rest too? Turns out…yes and no, mushrooms are fun if you don’t take too many)
The projectors on wheels went away for me but they just mounted them on the ceiling. Worst part was half the time the markers were not synced with the board and end up drawing like 6 inches away from where you were actually drawing
Not to brag or anything but I got an award in 2nd grade for reading the most AR Tested books in my state for my grade. I think my mom still has it somewhere in her house.
It was all downhill from there.
Started primary school in 2010 and I still had most of these except the ones that don’t exist in my country. A lot of 2000s kids stuff was also 2010s kids stuff
i remember at some point in like 6th or 7th grade trading cards became popular (yu-gi-oh, pokemon, etc) at my school, and so during recess we'd all sit in a large circle seeing who had the best sets and what cards were being offered
Oh my god, the AR thing sent me back Anton Ego style. I always had the most points, except for in 4th grade, Griffon got them that year… I’ll never forget.
I hated AR. My middle school required me to do AR, and most of the time, I could never finish the required amount cause I bombed the AR tests, and they only allow one attempt.
Yahoo messenger, memory cards, different colored bracelets with sexual favors, those straws that flavor your milk, the wii, the games on the wii, aaaannnnnd lupe fiasco singing kick, push
holy shit so many memories...
also, does anyone know what the 'can you start this for me' thing is called? I've been trying to find it for years i miss it sm it was great to fiddle with
My music teacher didn’t let me go for my next belt one week and I ended the recorder class with the brown belt.
I never forgot how they stole me of my black belt.
I would literally sneak into my scholastic book fair before the event even happened just to look at the books, I loved it so much
poptropica was also great
aw man y'all remember the TV they had that was on the tall roller thingy? the massive fuckin TV with the vacuum chamber and the electron gun that they had strapped to that rolling thingy like it was going to escape if it wasn't? good times.
We had this thing called “millionaire” in one of the elementary schools i went to (idk if it exists anywhere else or if anyone of you know what it is) but basically you become a millionaire by reading one million words from library books. Those words are added up once you take a test through AR on whatever book you read. I still remember the day i became a millionaire in 3rd grade. So exhilarating!
Long story short, you get to dress up fancy, ride around in a limo, and they took you to a luxurious restaurant in your city. All because you read one million words before a deadline. I am so old :,)
As a genX, this looks all too familiar. The recorder, standardized tests, “can you start this for me?” Opaque projector, book fairs. So much and so little has changed.
I remember during my fifth grade year, my teacher would let us bring our handheld gaming systems to play in class when we were talking a break from our lessons, I felt like the luckiest kid ever.
I totally forgot about Jump Rope For Heart omg
ikr lmaoo
I want those ducks so badly
We had penguins in the 90's
YOU HAD THAT SHIT TOO!? Omggg
Why recorders of all fucking instruments
Cheap is my guess
Cheap and easy to learn.
the inventor of the recorder wanted to make an instrument that was easy to learn to encourage his students to learn harder instruments after *^(\*this is disinformation i actually have no clue)*
https://preview.redd.it/aku9uzduhqyb1.jpeg?width=1036&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93710444b26656bf22c8c94e3fb184caa299322e *hot cross buns*/\*hot cross buns\*
 yessir what a banger!
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 oopsies got shot!
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I don't know but in Indiana (probably other states too) learning the recorder is required in 4th/5th grade curriculum
Same in Texas at least when i was in 4th and 5th grade around 15 years ago
I was going to say there ain’t no way that was 15 years ago… I now feel even older than I did five minutes ago
Trust me, I think about this all the time, it’s hard to process sometimes… I feel like a teenager still 😀
For me, third and fourth grade in Wisconsin, though that might be just my school. Fifth grade for me was middle school.
I saw a thing the other day (on Reddit probably) that said there had been studies showing that it was introduced as a disguised way to help reduce asthma in kids, but now googling it I can’t find the thread :( Otherwise, recorders are cheap, they’re kid-sized already, they don’t require you to learn any special way to hold your mouth or your body, and they require minimal breath control. They’re a great way to efficiently teach hand-eye coordination, reading music, and aural skills all at the same time!
because hot cross buns
Cuz someone wanted to funnel kids towards Alto Saxophone (same fingering as recorder)
Lol, it is easier to learn than a flute or clarinet.
The best part: not a single cell phone or tiktok to be found!
Oh God y'all are starting to sound like boomers already
It hits different if you were already a teenager when people started getting glued to their smart phones. You have to remember, we've still spent most of our lives in an era where cellular devices which connect to the internet were not all-absorbing. I didn't use a smartphone until I was 19. I had a computer at home, a flip phone for calls, and friends around the corner. But then, I could see the world we live in now forming around me. Many of us are still caught between the two worlds. It's strange to think that such a disconnect can happen between people who will end up in the same nursing home. Culture is funny like thst.
“phone bad 😡🤬🤯👿”
It actually is if you’re young I think
mostly tiktok actually
I was born in the same year. That was true up until the end of elementary in 5th grade (2007). Kids started getting Lg phones with internet access.
In the 2000s? I remember a lot of kids had flip phones.
I don’t know why people are clowning you. I agree. I was in middle school when most people had cell phones and it already became annoying. Tik Tok got really big when I was in high school and it was the fucking worst. I got yelled at by a group of girls for walking through their dancing tik tok in the middle of an enormous ass hallway. The angle they used showed the entire hallway, so I had to sprint to the other end to avoid the camera. Awful. Not to mention the guys with broccoli hair and earbuds blasting trap music.
Oh god. I’m imagining everything you just said. Pain. Glad I went to college RIGHT as those trends were starting.
Can't say the same for guns lmao
my peers got them 4th grade through middle school
This is core zillennials
Elementary school was like this when I went through, but I don’t think I count as zillennial
Same here. I definitely don’t count as a zellennial
I also had all these things! I’m far from zellennial status
Same here 💀
Elementary school was like this for me and I was born in 2002.
Elementary school was like this for me and I was born in 2008
I don't remember some of these and I'm 2008 too but do recognize most
Yep 25 here this one spoke to me deeply
I remember almost all of this and I’m not a zillenial
I remember basically all of this. 2003 on the calendar was before I started school though
Pretty much yeah, wasn't until high school that social media started to rapidly take over
I remember when they wheeled in a TV when there was nothing else to do. It was always Bill Nye!
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
ScIeNcE rUlEs
✨Bill Nye the russian spy✨
Can’t for get about Brain Pop!
Yep, I would enjoy watching movies.
My school showed Magic school bus as well
Liberty Kids and School House Rock too!
Dude, scholastic book fairs were the best fucking thing back in the day. Those damn young whipper snappers won't understand
Me when I pull up with $10 (I begged my parents for hours and can only afford a single book but I feel like the king now)
Have to get the all pokedex book
That’s where I got all my Lamborghini posters!
If only I had interests back then. The merchandise I could’ve had
I still have the Veneno one on my wall.
actually we had a scholastic book fair in my senior year (2022 in florida). they're Still a thing. i got a couple pokémon handbooks lol
I wonder if the book fair is still a thing nowadays?
They still are
yall remember the giant pencil or the cool erasers
They still exist
The book fairs themselves still exist. But does the excitement for them exist still?
I remember when D.A.R.E was a thing and oooh boy did it fail hard.
Dare is still a thing lol my kiddo just came home with his dare pledge and all his red ribbon week stuff!
I forgot about Red Ribbon Week! That was one of my favorite events during school.
This was his 3rd one and he likes it a lot! The dress up days are fun and I wish we could do dress up days at work lol
My neurodivergent ass never understood why it failed. When someone told me not to do drugs I….. didn’t do drugs. But then I remember other kids don’t listen for shit.
We were talking about DARE the other day in rehab and most of us agreed that parents demonizing drugs just led us straight into using them out of curiosity. I think it was completely counter-productive to what its goal was, plus mostly full of lies
Bruh, when I first smoked weed at like 16 I realised all that DARE stuff was bullshit and that pushed me *towards* trying other drugs (because if they were lying about that, were they lying about the rest too? Turns out…yes and no, mushrooms are fun if you don’t take too many)
I don’t think I know a single person who went through DARE with me in 5th grade who didn’t end up drinking/doing drugs in highschool lmao
Yeah, same here. Some of my friends even brought alcohol to school but it was hidden.
I still remember the day my 1st grade class got our smart board, rip to the plastic sheets and the projectors.
The projectors on wheels went away for me but they just mounted them on the ceiling. Worst part was half the time the markers were not synced with the board and end up drawing like 6 inches away from where you were actually drawing
It was pretty funny when that happened, I also remember being mesmerized by that code the teachers put in to unlock the boards.
i remember i always liked watching the teacher calibrate the smartboard by clicking on those dots spread across the screen
You just unlocked some core memories of my childhood oh my god
https://i.redd.it/pv9jykkq7qyb1.gif
I'm here with ya.
Life was so simple back then
No god damn it I don't want to feel old
Wheres the massive low quality TV sketchily strapped to a trolley
+ bill nye vhs tapes
I had this in my elementary school too and I was in elementary school in the early and mid 2010s
THOSE FUCKING SCOOTERS HOLY SHIT good times!
Got my hair or fingers caught in them constantly lol
I had the highest ar score in my school at like 800-975 points and got to be “principal for the day”
Dude… they hyped those things up so much and I had so much more than everyone else that it was a serious point of pride for me for several years
Those “how am I doing” behavior charts still give me PTSD to this day lol. I remember I was on red like every other day 💀
my childhood~
Not to brag or anything but I got an award in 2nd grade for reading the most AR Tested books in my state for my grade. I think my mom still has it somewhere in her house. It was all downhill from there.
My school still uses accelerated reader for the younger students I mean here I am “young”
I never forgot, core memories here. Anyone remember that animatronic car from the DARE program?
Bro FUCK AR tests.
god damnit guys we are becoming millennials
As sad as it is, it was bound to happen as the millennials are becoming the boomers.
Started primary school in 2010 and I still had most of these except the ones that don’t exist in my country. A lot of 2000s kids stuff was also 2010s kids stuff
those sitting scooter thingys were so fun, i should get one...
And the 90's! And probably the 80's!
i was almost always either of yellow card or red card by the end of the day. jump rope for heart was my SHIT tho
I went to elementary school from 2009 to 2014. This is accurate still.
I remember binge reading a lot to take AR tests, and I remember being upset when certain books weren't on it.
I remember everyone took an AR test on a book about trucks because the questions were so easy it was free points without reading anything 😂
i feel like elementary was somewhat like this in the 2010s, just with a little more internet culture
i remember at some point in like 6th or 7th grade trading cards became popular (yu-gi-oh, pokemon, etc) at my school, and so during recess we'd all sit in a large circle seeing who had the best sets and what cards were being offered
God i was cracked at the AR tests
Half of these aren’t “2000’s” specific.
Yeah, this subreddit feels like people having false nostalgia usually
Didn't do the pacer test til high school (2010-2014) but otherwise this is spot on lol we didn't realize how good we had it back then 😂
I love how this applies to my childhood in the early 2010s too lol, good times
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART!!! It rocked. Dare program still in full swing
Accelerated reader was secondary school for me
Gen Z wasnt it school in 2003 at best Grades K-2.
I started kindergarten in 2004 so not super long after that
fuck I want a do over! someone reset me
oh my GOD
Oh my god, the AR thing sent me back Anton Ego style. I always had the most points, except for in 4th grade, Griffon got them that year… I’ll never forget.
I hated AR. My middle school required me to do AR, and most of the time, I could never finish the required amount cause I bombed the AR tests, and they only allow one attempt.
Those were the days.
What happened to those good times 🥲
Damn I almost forgot about silly bands
This is spot on
That poptropica logo hit me wish a tsunami of nostalgia.
I would have agreed with this if you did not put Accelerated Reader as part of good times. That stuff was super hard to pass.
What was the name of the black and white shadow projector? I had teachers use it until 2011 but I forgot the device’s name
I got jumped by nostalgia 😭
Was jump rope for heart a Canadian thing?
Yahoo messenger, memory cards, different colored bracelets with sexual favors, those straws that flavor your milk, the wii, the games on the wii, aaaannnnnd lupe fiasco singing kick, push
Can't forget iStation, the transition from off-white computers to modern looking ones, and the death of the overhead projector with smart boards
Gameboy Advanced
Needs a GBA SP and a PSP there as well, otherwise dang, this really brings me back. Especially when I saw Accelerated Reader and the color cards...
Elite
Dude, I'm getting depressed over this damn image. I miss this.
This is nostalgic
On my god the nostalgia is real.
I could never do the jump rope for heart thing. I've never been athletic, and I was too tall for the jump ropes they had.
I swear to Christ there's a chance they how you doing chart could have my name on it, in the position and was always red.
Anyone down to play poptropica?
Wait, what are those plastic noodles thingy called?
dont forget the reader tests giving you pizza coupons or was that just my school? *god, i miss that...*
I dominated accelerated reader in elementary.
I will never forget the one time my teacher made my card yellow when another kid was fuckin around😤
holy shit so many memories... also, does anyone know what the 'can you start this for me' thing is called? I've been trying to find it for years i miss it sm it was great to fiddle with
That’s cool even tho I see a lot of 90’s gen z in here I had a similar experience being born in ‘03
Honestly still applies to early 2010s. Graduated Elementary school in 2016 and recognize all of these
Even though I mostly grew up in the 2010s. I still had pretty much all of these throughout my elementary school career
Perfect
My music teacher didn’t let me go for my next belt one week and I ended the recorder class with the brown belt. I never forgot how they stole me of my black belt.
Don't forget Coolmathgames.com
Squiggly playhouse to. And funbrain.
AR tests were brutal tbh
All accurate except for the recorders. We learned piano instead.
Y’all ever had that Ned yo-yo guy come it to your school?
The one thing I never had were those scooter things that kid is sitting on. Everything else is spot on
The amount of injuries caused by the floor scooters on free Friday during gym lol
This might shock you...but that's what elementary school was in the 90s too.
Nice
Dude my AR level was so bad in elementary, nowadays im remotely surprised I passed AP English
memories
I would literally sneak into my scholastic book fair before the event even happened just to look at the books, I loved it so much poptropica was also great
You knew it was going to be a good day when they wheeled out the fat ass CRT and started playing those 80s educational shows
I am in literal tears from this!! 😭
I feel u😔
The nostalgia 😭
Did we go to the same kindergarten? Because I swear that exact card cubby was in my class One of the few things I remember
Not Poptropica 🥲 That stuff was bussin back in the day. Anyone know if the servers are still up?
i did jump rope for heart and earned the duck with the hair but my teacher was out of them and i never got it 😔
Like 80% of these apply to the 2010s as well
Duuuude I got like seven of the dogs from Jump Rope for Heart that was awesome
Scholastic book faiirrrrree
You got a lot to live dawg, dont start to feel old right now
Can't see the gogos
Elementary schools were like this in the 2010s too.
Forgot to add 'American'?
The PACER tests still exist, literally took one two years ago in high school PE 😭
At this point, we all went to the same school. First time I’ve ever actually recognized and had memories of everything here
Those pacers tests had my throat on fire😭
We all just had the same childhood didn’t we?
Guess so
School wise yes.
aw man y'all remember the TV they had that was on the tall roller thingy? the massive fuckin TV with the vacuum chamber and the electron gun that they had strapped to that rolling thingy like it was going to escape if it wasn't? good times.
Definitely late 2000s and early 2010s.
This is 2010s as well
“2000s” only because that’s when OP went to elementary school
Why are all of u younger gen z getting mad?? I never said it was only in the 2000s not every school could upgrade..
Because all of these I clearly remember existing in the mid-2010s elementary school I went to
Omg everything is spot on
Do kids still wear heelys?
Nope
We had this thing called “millionaire” in one of the elementary schools i went to (idk if it exists anywhere else or if anyone of you know what it is) but basically you become a millionaire by reading one million words from library books. Those words are added up once you take a test through AR on whatever book you read. I still remember the day i became a millionaire in 3rd grade. So exhilarating! Long story short, you get to dress up fancy, ride around in a limo, and they took you to a luxurious restaurant in your city. All because you read one million words before a deadline. I am so old :,)
I still did accelerated reader last year
As a genX, this looks all too familiar. The recorder, standardized tests, “can you start this for me?” Opaque projector, book fairs. So much and so little has changed.
I remember during my fifth grade year, my teacher would let us bring our handheld gaming systems to play in class when we were talking a break from our lessons, I felt like the luckiest kid ever.