When I attended George Watts Elementary School (Durham NC) in the very early seventies, slam books were popular. Many people in my fifth grade had one, and I had one of the thickest. I wish I'd saved it. I don't remember anyone's getting confiscated and we certainly didn't get punished for having one, as long as the questions were not inappropriate, anyway. People probably did get "slammed" but as time goes on you tend to forget stuff like this ever happened. The comments must not have been that vicious.

We did this when we were kids in middle school in the early 90s, but we'd usually ask risque questions (to us) more so that insulting ones. Then when I took a job with middle schoolers recently they were doing slam books as well, but they were meaner. We did take them.

Slam books were not that bad. It was just a way to get information about your classmates and who liked who. Nobody really slammed anyone. Totally innocent.

I remember having slambooks in junior high. Ours weren't about "slammin" other people, ours were just questions such as "What's your sign?" What is your middle name?, Do you have a crush on someone?" Like the surveys that go around on Myspace, facebook, those types of sites. They never were confiscated unless they were starting to disrupt class OR if there was trash talk about someone.

No wonder so many schools have banned slam books.This is cool because you can get info on others.But it's bad because a majority of the comments can be mean and whoever the comment is for could end up having a bad situation with the person who wrote it. I hope my school doesn't have a slam book!

I made one of these in Middle school and High school. I didn't think it woukd travel as far as it di. come to think of it I never really got them back. they got lost in transition through school pals. Maybe a teacher got a hold to them. Wow!

Hey, we had them when I was in high school in the '60s. They were fun, not mean at all. In fact, we called them slang books, for some dumb reason.