Bizarre classroom posters from the '70s: Here's why your parents are so f*cked up (PHOTOS)

• I think these are great! Way better than telling kids 'compete,compete, compete fuck everyone else...you are so amazing and better than everyone' else like they do these days. The "Be Curious" one is bizarre though...

• Ahh nevermind I understand now.  It was a post that was designed to attract traffic to the website during the start of school.  People will type in "back to school," or "classroom" ect...And the westword blog hopes that its page will show up in the search, further attracting people to investigate with a catchy title and what not.  Too bad it doesn't see itself all the way through.  

• This is lost on me, maybe its suppose to be ironic?  I think both the artwork and the messages are interesting.  I don't even see the artwork as bad, in fact I think stylistically even though its outdated that there is something there.  I'm confused at why these are described as bizarre.  

• Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Brett. Much appreciated.

• Actually some of this is pretty fucking good advice.

• Question for author of this article: What do you have against being kind, thinking realistically, having courage, etc? These are actually great messages for kids that should be part of anyone's holistic education. The artwork is not awkward enough to make it campy. Go look at Big Jim doll packaging and advertisements, that is something creepy from the 70s, but not these posters.

• I liked all of them. Not so much f'd up about it as mentioned again^3 in previous comments. These were pretty gutsy for the time and I'd dare say for today. It shows images of independent "free range" children that we certainly lack now in our current hyper insulated and overprotective state.It's ambitious in it's integrated imagery- particularly coming out of the 60's.Too bad the Westword tile prohibits me from sharing. I'd say it sours solely on the fact they are extremely idyllic. 

• You guys don't get it. Children should be taught to be selfish, insular, clique-ish, mean to others, and poor sports.  They are supposed to be taught conformity and to have low self-esteem.  Finally, did you notice how the white kids are in the same pictures as black kids? THAT IS SO FUCKED UP AND WRONG.  That is the point of the post: kids back then got all sorts of bad messages.  Today, they get their guidance from Ke$ha and Li'l Wayne, role models I WISH I had when I was a kid.

• Splat thinks the fark ones are better.

• http://www.fark.com/comments/6554297/Photoshop-these-classroom-posters?cpp=1

• And whoever this is is saying that kids and thier media today are normal?  It is too bad that some of the principals in the posters were not embrased, but the author here needs to get out side more and look around.

• This 70s educated parent thinks it is incredibly sad that teaching kids concepts of responsibility, self worth & compassion is now considered "bizarre".

• "F--ed up"? Would that EVERY school-aged child learned these lessons!

• You are right Sneeved, the artist wasnt insinuating that the others should be curious about his crotc, just that they should be curious about learning. If Mr. Roberts automatically assumed it was something sexual then he is the one that is sick and F** up in the head. Not the artist who just wanted kids to be curious about learning.

• I agree with the fact that these are very important conversations to have with kids. Maybe you should spend sometime reading them and learning something. In addition I suggest some council. You have some kind of very distructive and hurtful perspectives that are limiting your life profoundly.

• LOL, ya mad dude?

• As a member of the Roberts tribe, not his... I call shenanigans.

• I don't get it.. What's so bizarre about these pictures then?

• I think Mr Roberts can learn a thing or two from these posters himself. He's definitely finding it hard to understand the concepts here. 

• Micheal Roberts...I think you are messed up and are trying to somehow be cool. The artwork is outdated...but the one you point out about some kid with a rocket coming from his crotch is hardly what you are insinuating. There's wrong with the messages here but I'd say you have some issues to sort through there...heh...you're being laughed at on your own blog.

• Know and accept the consequences?? WTF??? Hahaha! Have the courage to try? LOLOLOZ!!!! Think for yourself.??? Wow dude you are right, this is some fucked up shit.... /s

• the artwork is typical hideous 70s - which the GenXers and GenYs then badly aped for a while as a sort of ironic snarky retro cool ... but the sentiments are terrific - there was a lot of that positive messaging going on in that era to countermand the evil of the Vietnam war (which obviously taught us nothing now that we're in more needless wars), government corruption, 50s mindset conformity, and the haze of the drug culture which eventually brought everyone down to burnout phase ... the headline shows the "author" doesn't really get it and in an attempt to be hip and snarky just exposed himself as ignorant of the subject matter

• I think you're seeing something that really isn't there and in indicating that you're reading some warped or illicit message tells me you may just be a little fucked up yourself. Nice try, but...there's nothing to see here.

• I kind of agree. How are these concepts that f-d people up?

• The artwork is outdated ( yeah it was the 70's) but what is so jacked about the messages ?? Kids today could benefit from learning a little more compassion. I guess if its not Crack and Gun violence you don't get it. Your the one who is Fucked Up !

•  i don't understand the relationship between a lot of the images and phrases...but they're not disturbing or anything. i was expecting something twisted.

• Love the post, Tweak. We're going to make it an upcoming Comment of the Day. Hope that elevates your vibe. Congrats.

• Don't spas out dude, the situation will come on line.

• Dang dude - what a drag.  Why you want to tweak my flow?  These are groovy messages for kids to learn.  But I'm like, really, like do you really like find these offensive and bizarre dude?  Really uncool.  I mean, like, really...I wish the kiddies had more of these positive vibes in their worlds.  Free to be, you and me, like really dude.

• Being a child of the 70s, thankfully I was never exposed to the hideous artwork of these posters... but really, "bizarre?" What concepts do you believe "fucked us up?"

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