Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Does anyone remember SRA's?


7 comments:

Julie said...

I think I remember these. Were they color coded? Was orange an easy color?

Landshark said...

I think so. They came in like boxed files, and were color coded on the tabs? You had to work your way through them or something.

DKC said...

I TOTALLY remember these! They were color coded, I seem to remember having a hard time getting through purple...

Octopunk said...

I totally remember these. When my 4th grade English teacher Miss Hayhurst would write the days assignments on the board, there would always be a line for "2 SRA's" and by some weird common consent nobody ever did them.

The ones we had didn't look like that Jigging Pig one, the pictures would be in one color -- the aforementioned color coding. They were made of some cheapo plastic. As you made your way through the assignments, they got more and more boring.

JPX said...

Hayhurst was a bitch. She died recently.

Octopunk said...

Wow, really? I never had a problem with her. You're not thinking of old Springthorpe, are you?

JPX said...

She was awful too! I had an encounter with Hayhurst a few years ago and she was a total bitch to me, remind me to tell you about it some time.

Springthorpe. Shiver.

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