You can really tell who they were marketing more towards...

The heads of these not-minifigures-but-not-fully-brickbuilt figures look sort of creepy before you actually put anything on them. I really was not prepared when I found some in my parent's childhood Lego bins.

I just checked and it's US exclusive. Go figure.

I don't know. The teacher looks kind of terrifying.

Looks to me like the teacher is about to whack the kid coming in late. I had a teacher like that, once.

More like schoolwall...

@Harmonious_Building:
Well, they can't walk, or even stand up and hop. Their arms don't look strong enough to drag their weight across the floor, especially with 41 years of wear and tear making those joints loose and easy to pop apart. One strong effort, and their arms would be lying on the floor next to them.

...so what are those two random bricks at the back supposed to be? Do US schools all come with special seats at the back for the sleepier children or something?

The last Homemaker set ever :'(

@Brickalili said:
"...so what are those two random bricks at the back supposed to be? Do US schools all come with special seats at the back for the sleepier children or something?"

Looks like a naughty step to me . . .

It's interesting to see a Homemade set make use of the 3.18 hole in the teacher's hand.

The very first version of these had a hole to narrow to fit a bar, because the 3.18 Connection Type wasn't their yet.

@ao_ka said:
"Crazy how Lego Town/City took 40 years to open its next school."

School closed after the croc and lion ate their rabbit classmate in 3645

@Brickalili those bricks might be used to change that late kid into a good behaving seated schoolkid

Amazed this set is 1982 and not 1972, as I thought the minifigs had already taken over Legoland by this date unless this was just the end of the stock in an American promotional set. I remember they used to have school prizes for the kid who had achieved most in the year, so maybe this was to tie in with that. The smooth blue base plate was unusual at the time and I assume those are all stickers on the wall for the clock, chalk on blackboard, alphabet etc.

@Terry_Wright
Looking the size of the chairs needed, I wouldn’t call it a naughty step; more of a naughty ottoman…

@CCC
Wow that is a grim mental image to conjure up XD

@WemWem said:
"Wow, we can even get political discussions going in a RSOTD from the *checks notes* HOMEMAKER theme."

Yep I always find the random political discussions strange. I remember when the Overwatch 2 set got suspended last year due to the developer's abuse scandal, there were people randomly bringing up the Lunar New Year sets to act as if Lego is in bed with the Chinese government or something, despite that tradition dating back thousands of years.

@ambr said:
"Amazed this set is 1982 and not 1972, as I thought the minifigs had already taken over Legoland by this date unless this was just the end of the stock in an American promotional set. I remember they used to have school prizes for the kid who had achieved most in the year, so maybe this was to tie in with that. The smooth blue base plate was unusual at the time and I assume those are all stickers on the wall for the clock, chalk on blackboard, alphabet etc.
"

'Smooth' is a very relative description Here, given that these plates had a rather rough texture to them. Funnily they last appeared in a 1990 Technic Set.

@ao_ka said:
"Crazy how Lego Town/City took 40 years to open its next school."

I suppose 710-3 : Basic Building Set, 7+ was the first and only minifig school until recent City , and 850935 : Classic Minifigure Graduation Set took 31 years to graduate 710-3 .

(not counting harry potter, fabuland, or mindoll schools in this case)

@Atuin said:
" @ambr said:
"Amazed this set is 1982 and not 1972, as I thought the minifigs had already taken over Legoland by this date unless this was just the end of the stock in an American promotional set. I remember they used to have school prizes for the kid who had achieved most in the year, so maybe this was to tie in with that. The smooth blue base plate was unusual at the time and I assume those are all stickers on the wall for the clock, chalk on blackboard, alphabet etc.
"

'Smooth' is a very relative description Here, given that these plates had a rather rough texture to them. Funnily they last appeared in a 1990 Technic Set. "

"Smooth" meaning "lack of studs" rather than texture, probably.

I, too, am amazed that the Homemaker sets were produced this late. I thought the minifigure revollution was already over by this time. One last gasp for the old ways, I guess...

@MCLegoboy said:
"Take that other nations! If you want to play school, you gotta use the American version and get yourselves back down to our level. Make your kids fat, and dumb as rocks. God bless the USA."

No no, we have dumb kiddos here as well. So dumb in fact, they are considering not giving grades anymore - everybody passes at the end of the year anyway - and they now have kindergarten graduations... (lately they changed how words were spelled because none of the kids could get them right; so all previous generations had to change the way they wrote some words because the current generation is too dumb to learn a few spellings).

I wonder how the non-grading process works in the real world?
employer: So, what is your average at school?
kid: I got 3 smiley faces, one moon and one running shoe.
Our future leaders... (sigh)

Ah, just like my old teacher with that tightly-tied gray hair and the disciplinary rod impaled right through her hand.

@TeriXeri:
Hidden Side had a school. Of course, there was a good chance it might eat you…

@WemWem said:
"Wow, we can even get political discussions going in a RSOTD from the *checks notes* HOMEMAKER theme."
Well, as they say, "All politics is Lego."

Oh. Wait. They do not say that. That is not what they say at all.

@HOBBES said:
" lately they changed how words were spelled because none of the kids could get them right; so all previous generations had to change the way they wrote some words because the current generation is too dumb to learn a few spellings"

I mean…broadly agree with your wider point but you do get that that’s how languages kinda work in the first place, right? “A naranj” becomes “an orange” because people were just getting the spelling wrong not because some great etymology council decided it would be so

@Randomness said:
"You can really tell who they were marketing more towards...

The heads of these not-minifigures-but-not-fully-brickbuilt figures look sort of creepy before you actually put anything on them. I really was not prepared when I found some in my parent's childhood Lego bins. "
Maxifigs look weird from a modern perspective or any time since the advent of minifigures, but I remember before we had maxifigs. You had houses and vehicles with no figures to occupy them. So maxifigs were pretty cool when they were released, surprisingly.