Were any of you people school patrols when you were a kid?

I was a patrol in the 6th grade. I wore an orange plastic sash that went diagonal like a seatbelt. I was in charge of keeping the little kids in a front entrance before the morning bell rang for them to go to their classrooms. I wanted to be a traffic patrol (yes, back in the day school kids were allowed to be crossing guards), but they wouldn't let me. I complained and the principal made me clean the erasers. Chalk dust everywhere.

Umpy
• Yes, I was traffic patrol.

• Yes, I was a Patrol Boy way back when. There were no AK-47s in those days but we were issued 4 war surplus hand grenades each school term. Good times.

• 5th Grade. Bike Patrol - "Directed" traffic of kids leaving school for the day.

• Even in childhood, you could see the Nazi tendencies reveal themselves in some of the patrols.

• We also had a silver badge that was worn like a brooch. I liked the badge, but thought it clashed with the orange sash.

• [quote]I wore an orange plastic sash that went diagonal like a seatbelt No, nobody in my class was autistic.

• Glad to see you!

• School patrol? You mean a safety?

• Oh, yeah. I was traffic patrol. Still have my pin (small badge) issued by AAA. This was in the sixties.

• I was. Everyone in my family called me a "little stinker" just because I happened to be the only one with any sense of responsibility. Cunts. All of them.

  Bobby Brady

• Who you calling "you people", punk?

• In my school it was considered kind of nerdy to be a patrol. Not infrequently I would overhear a kid saying to the Patrol, "You're not the boss of me!!!"

  Anonymous

• I was Captain of the School Patrol. It was all downhill from there.