I'm late for Social Studies. Has anyone seen my cigarettes?

In 1961, the Burgess Hill School in Hertfordshire, England, was something of an alternative educational institution for bongo-playing beatniks. Teachers and students alike wore leather jackets and dark glasses, smoked cigarettes during class, rode motorcycles, listened to jazz and twisted to Chubby Checker records. If a kid didn’t understand an algebra problem, the teachers just talked to them calmly about it. Nobody freaked out, man. Thankfully, this time warp was captured by newsreel producers. Watch the five-minute video here.

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