These side-by-side photos show just how dramatically school life has evolved. So ’70s school kids got some scuffs, scabs, and the occasional upchuck, but recess was, after all, a time to let loose.

and lived every day like it might be our last," wrote Tab LaFollette in the book Growing Up Old School: Re-live what it was like to be a kid in the 60s and 70s. The 1970s was a time for taking ...