Learned to use a slide rule in junior high math. The teacher showed us a neat $200 Texas Instruments calculator that did the 4 arithmetic functions and even percents! "Some day, every one of you will have one!" He was right.
Every kid carried some kind of folding knife to school and nobody locked down the place or called the SWAT team. In fact, we openly showed them off to each other in classrooms. In high school we kept shotguns in the trunks of our cars so we could hit the fields for a little bird hunting after school.
If there was a fight after school (and there usually was), the was a certain code of honor that was to be observed. The fight ended when one of them went down. The winner would often extend his hand to help the loser back on his feet. Then they would walk away. Hostilities would end then and there and the matter was settled. No one called up their posse to get payback and no shots were fired.
If a teacher called our home to say I did something stupid, my parents grilled me when I got home. They never went over to the school to insist that their precious little snowflake would never do anything like that or try to defend my actions. Mom & Dad sided with the teacher and I got punished.
Most of us drove $300 junkers in high school. Nobody was worried about "being seen in some crappy old car." Those crappy old cars gave us independence and allowed us to go to part time jobs, parties, on dates, etc. A buck's worth of gas would get us all over town on a Friday night.
Radio stations played a little something for everyone. On a typical Top-40 station you could hear Led Zeppelin, Willie Nelson, Tom Jones, Cheech & Chong, O'Jays, and the Osmonds. All in a row.
My lawn...get off it.
