School Days – SOCS – Element

School Days – SOCS – Element

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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “element.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

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The only thing I’m thinking about for this prompt is the elementary school I went to as a kid. I went there from pre-school through the 6th grade.

The name of the school was Arnett Elementary, and was in our neighborhood. The mascot was an antelope. It was a really good school, I always thought, but now it is closed down. I don’t know why, except maybe there just aren’t many kids that live around there anymore, as it is a very old neighborhood, and everyone’s kids have grown up and left.

I, along with most all my classmates walked to school. I remember it was 8 blocks from my house. We’d have our set routine of route along the way, meeting up with others along the way.

We all knew everyone out in our neighborhood addition, and everyone’s houses. There was one house we all knew was a witch’s house. It was scary going by there even in the daytime. Her overgrown yard of plants, vines, and trees looked spooky, and she had lots of scary wooden masks hanging from the branches.

We never had playground equipment like swings or jungle gyms. I remember one PTA meeting where the parents voted against that, and instead planted some trees instead. Little tiny trees, which after many years did grow bigger. But still, we wanted a playground. What we had was dried up grass and dirt. But we did invent games to play out there. Oh well. Still fond memories of the students/friends and teachers. Every year there would be a Halloween carnival held in the whole school. That was fun.

There is still a FB group I read comprised of all of us that went to school there so many years ago. 🙂

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