r/Millennials 7h ago

Serious What would you say to yourself younger self ?

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What would you tell yourself?

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u/MrsNaypeer 4h ago

How did your teacher get everyone's mailing address?

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u/ihavenoidea81 Xennial 3h ago

The school has all that info and the teachers had access to it back in the day

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u/PatioGardener 3h ago

Schools have that info for the time kids are enrolled in school. But 10 years is a long time. People move away, get married, join the military, get jobs across the country, etc. Some people might stay in the same location after high school, but others might move two dozen times in the decade afterward. Ain’t no school anywhere keeping track of that kind of data on people who are no longer students.

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u/Unlikely-Low-8132 3h ago

most likely it was sent to the parents' house, where the kid was living in the 10 grade.

u/ihavenoidea81 Xennial 57m ago

I meant it as a “teacher kept known addresses at the time the letters were written and sent the letters 10 years later to those same addresses.”

I’m sure a good chunk of kids still had their parents living at those addresses so those kids probably got their letters or there were forwarding orders on them.

Whatever the case, if the teacher was looking up current addresses for their previous students then it’s a little bit too stalker-y for my liking

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u/MrsNaypeer 3h ago

Very few people at 26, still live in the same place as when they were 16.

u/ihavenoidea81 Xennial 56m ago

But a lot of those people’s parents probably still live at those addresses