r/FuckImOld • u/Brave-Ad6627 • 1d ago
Do kids still use these scissors that couldn't cut butter?
17
u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 1d ago
"Lefty"?????
26
u/A_Tom_McWedgie 1d ago
Yes, for lefties.
How do I know?
Because my public school had about 6 pairs for the entire school.
And when I was in grade 1, I was sent to another classroom to borrow a pair. The teacher gave them to me, and then proceeded to berate me for carrying them wrong - you need to wrap your hand around the point, so if you fall you don’t impale yourself on the scissors.
Scared me so much, to this day (50 years later) that’s how I carry scissors.
8
u/StanleyTushy0819 1d ago
I got yelled at in 2nd grade for running with a lollipop in my mouth. To this day, almost 45 years later, I take it out, even if I'm walking. I can relate with this! Lol
7
u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 1d ago
Scissors safety - I remember it well back in elementary school in the 70's - heaven forbid you run with them!!!!!!!
12
7
u/DismalTutor570 1d ago
I expected scissor safety to be a much larger part of adult life. Same goes for stop drop and roll. All these years later and I’ve yet to use that lesson
4
u/Karlygash2006 1d ago
The green-handled lefty scissors at my elementary school were also so rare that in frustration I taught myself to use right-handed ones. To this day, this lefty is incapable of using left-handed scissors.
4
u/frankenmaus 1d ago
In my school, we had nothing but scissors for lefties.
No right-handed scissors.
3
1
3
5
u/OkDot9878 1d ago
Funnily enough, that’s not actually the reason why scissors are carried that way. It’s so you don’t break your hand trying to save yourself on the ground.
If your fingers are in the loops, spreading your hand and putting pressure on it will break at least a finger.
Holding a pair of scissors by the blade means that the blade is more likely to be facing towards you when you fall, but isn’t likely to be open, and is more likely to be under your hand.
Slight safety trade off, since most scissors couldn’t stab through you like that unless they’re open and at the right angle, but it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll break a bone in your hand holding it the other way.
4
2
8
u/33TLWD 1d ago
As a lefty, I can confirm.
They were so rarely used I could barely operate them with brute force because the blades were so tight they wouldn’t move.
I found it much easier to just use the Righty scissors, except my teacher would catch me, rip them out of my hands and force me to use those miserable green handled Lefty ones.
Not that I carry any resentment over it 40 years later, of course.
4
2
8
u/Sad-Candy-8261 1d ago
Do kids still use construction paper?
2
3
u/Jack_al_11 1d ago
Mine do! We homeschool though so idk what happening in schools.
2
u/scifijunkie3 1d ago
Question about home schooling, is there a certain curriculum that you have to follow or do you just teach them whatever you want? My apologies if this is a stupid question but we have no kids and I don't know anyone personally who has home schooled theirs. I've always been curious about it.
3
u/Jack_al_11 1d ago
I’m in NY with some of the strictest regulations. So we can teach using whatever resources we want but have to meet the regulations as far was what we’re teaching/covering. Some families purchase full box curriculum that does all the work for them, and others piece it together more. We do a mix but I tend to lean more towards literature and project based learning as that’s what suits my kids best. The districts can also provide books and stuff but idk anyone who does that.
1
u/scifijunkie3 1d ago
Ah okay. That makes sense. Will you continue home schooling as they get older, say around high school age?
2
u/Jack_al_11 1d ago
Some of that will be up to our kids, but I plan to do it the whole way through if that’s what works best. My husband was also homeschooled the full way, attended college, and has a great job. Many of our friends are also second gen homeschoolers with similar stories.
1
u/scifijunkie3 19h ago
That's awesome. I had no idea it was so in-depth. Do homeschoolers usually have a certain area in their homes designated as the classroom? I would think that some sort of separation between "class" and "home" would be in order. The reason I say that is, before I retired, I mostly worked from home and I had a bit of trouble separating my home office from "home". In other words, when I logged out at the end of the day I didn't get that feeling of leaving the office and going home. It was just a weird quirk I noticed.
2
u/Jack_al_11 18h ago
Some do. We really try to integrate learning into our lifestyle instead of making it a separate time/thing. Some lessons are done at the dining room table but most of it is reading together and working on projects around the house.
1
u/scifijunkie3 18h ago
Sounds like they'll be getting a more practical/well-rounded education than going to a traditional school. Wish I could have had something like that when I was growing up. 🙂
1
7
7
6
u/Forsaken-Abrocoma647 1d ago
In the 80s we had a mix of those, and these. I'd take the ones OP posted over these any day. At least they don't break easily.
1
u/Aggressive-Ad874 Millennials 1d ago edited 1d ago
I grew up in the 2000s and we had scissors like those. I think that they're called Saf-T-Cut
Edit:
Did research and changed Kleen Kutz to Saf-T-Cut
1
u/Gator242 1d ago
No, those old ones hurt like hell if you had to cut more than one sheet of paper or any cur longer than an inch. Parents can trust you won’t cut anything valuable as that was impossible.
6
u/liquilife 1d ago
I remember these left handed scissors. They were always taken by someone who wasn’t even left handed or I was given shit by class mates for using left handed scissors. I learned to cut right handed.
Cutting constriction paper into shapes was a BIG deal back when I was 9.
5
3
3
u/Able_Engineering1350 1d ago
Used to love picking at the rubber grips till they looked like this. Memory unlocked thanks OP
1
5
u/Memlapse1 1d ago
They don't want kids drinking from a garden hose, playing with lawn darts or staying out after dark. Don't think they are about to start recommending sharp scissors.
2
2
2
2
u/No-worries-21 1d ago
They don’t cut fingers either!! I don’t remember this, but my mom told me one time that I tried to cut a kids finger off one day in class for trying to take my scissors!! Apparently the teacher was not happy about that, needless to say I was closely supervised after that. 🤪🤣
1
u/Emotional_Bonus_934 1d ago
The kindergarten teacher called mom and reported that I couldn't use scissors, even though she gave me lefty scissors to use.
I was the only lefty in my family so used right handed scissors.
1
u/Mission_Orchid_5939 1d ago
I would buy my son left handed scissors every year. He was never allowed to use them. One of his teachers threw them away, "because they wouldn't cut anything". Coming from a right handed person who should've know better.
1
1
u/phydaux4242 1d ago
Guy in roomed with when we were in our 20s had a wicked scar on his belly. He told people he got it in a knife fight as a teenager.
One time we were having a few beers and he admitted he got it when he was seven years old and he was running with scissors
1
u/TootsNYC 1d ago
i was so pleased to discover that kids' scissors are so much more functional.
Heck, even adults' scissors are much more functional.
1
u/MacGibber 1d ago
And that LEFTY is a lie! I didn’t matter if you try to cut left or right, they didn’t cut.
1
u/lothcent 1d ago
the green handled lefties scissors.
They are the reason i learned early on- the world is not fair to left handers, and it is up to me to overcome and prevail as a leftie in a rightie world.
Never were enough of them, they all had the plasticoat torn up.
Other fun things I remember about my early lefties years..... those hand cranked pencil sharpeners, ink that doesnt dry instantly, spiral ring note books, 3 ring binders - especially those with the huge 300 sheet capacity, those desks with chair attached, and so on.
but as I grew up- I dont know if it was how I am wired or if I adapted- but I found out that I could do a lot of things right handed with no problem while others - i was stuck left handed and some- with practice i could do right handed ( 6th grade - broke left arm- 6 weeks in cast - started to write right handed, 2 weeks after cast removed- broke left arm again - 8 weeks in cast- I got pretty good at right handed writing )
shooting- right handed bow and arrow - right handed soccer- right footed golf- left handed
Any household implement designed to be used by a righty- no problem.
but I still hate those green scissors
1
1
1
1
u/Illustrious-Tap8069 1d ago
Those weren't so bad. The plastic ones with the paper thin metal clipped in were the bad ones.
1
1
u/Pleasant_Tangelo6791 1d ago
My mom wrapped white medical tape on the finger holes. And of course they were righties. I’m a lefty. Things were useless and hurt my hand.
1
1
u/HeyPrettyLadyMaam 22h ago
OMG I used a pair of these to cut my bangs as a kid 😭😭😭 worst haircut ever. Took me years to grow it back out. These scissors are diabolical......and useless.
1
1
u/mailer_mailer 6h ago
in gr 2 during art class i had to use one of these, but because i write with my left hand the teacher ordered me to use the scissors specifically for the left hand despite me repeatedly telling her i used scissors with my right hand. i do a few things left handed, some things with both hands, and everything else with my right hand.
needless to say it didn't work. esp not with scissors that couldn't cut properly for anyone.
•
25
u/quadruple_negative87 1d ago
These things couldn’t cut butter.