Public Elementary School Gen Z Things:

Public elementary school gen z things:

Songs about killing barney the dinosaur

Abcdefg gummy bears are chasing me

Gross pizza but its better than no pizza

Red ribbon/say no to drugs week

Pajama day

Chewy tortillas

Pizzas and grilled cheeses and pb&js in plastic packages

Gendered and/or assigned bus seating

Party in the usa during gym

Treasure chest/prize boxes with cheap erasers and pencils in them and maybe a toothbrush if youre lucky

Off-key singing happy birthday and grocery store cupcakes on your birthday

Bunching up/twisting the swings to set them higher

After school program with going outside + watching Netflix later

60 second times tables

5 finger rule for books (more than 5 words you can't recognize on a page = too advanced for you)

The first school day after Halloween being a MESS of trading candy and being little shits

Very low quality education about non Christian holidays during December in the first few years, then never learning it again

Zapping each other after going down the slides

The 100th day of school being VERY important

Silent reading time

Instead of As and Bs amd Cs, it was E (exceeds standards), M (meets standards), P (progressing), I (insufficient)

Oh I'm a gummy bear yes I'm a gummy bear

FUCK teletubbies, FUCK cailou, FUCK frozen, and most of all, FUCK BARNEY THE DINOSAUR

Field day being insane and everyone getting covered in water

Being too loud at lunch and making the teachers have to clap a rhythm and you repeat it to get your attention

Silent lunch

Foldables that you fill in for notes

No movies over the rating of G

*laces hands together* open the gate *other person "chops" them open* who do you hate

Shame, lemonade, concentration, among other hand clap games

Cheese touch

Bone, babymouse, dear dumb diary, diary of a wimpy kid, dork diaries, etc

That awful lined paper with pink lines and blue dashes in the middle to help your handwriting

Use your finger to size your spaces between words

Kahoot

Those awful "plays" that were standing on risers and singing off key and weird dancing and crappy dialogue

*makes weird hand shape* if you looked at this you're gay

Sharing takis at recess

Show and tell

Being jealous of the kids who got the newest iphone despite them being 9

Being the line leader was very very important and kids would push and shove each other to get to be the front

Playing either horses (pretending to own and ride horses), cats, or wolves depending on if you were a horse girl, a warrior cats nerd, or furry in training (yes I know there are cat furries)

Monthly or weekly assinged classroom jobs like line leader, paper passer outer, school lunch or home lunch counter

Scholastic book fair

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