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You might be Old School if you remember being kept after school and made to clean the erasers and blackboard and then sweep the floor,
I didn't have to sweep, but I sure remember cleaning erasers and washing (slate) blackboards. I had another elementary school teacher who would keep you after school, and give you a math problem: 5 numbers multiplied by 5 numbers. Do the multiplication, and then prove your answer by long division. Show your work. And in the 50s, no calculators, of course.
I hated it then, but I still have the ability to do arithmetic!