(06-23-2010, 01:16 PM)sejohn1969 Wrote: no A/C in schools back then

Funny you should mention that. We didn't have A/C either! This was about 8 years ago, and it was the last year the school was held in that building. We had no AC, old bathrooms, a boiler room that (up until the mid 90s) had been used as a paddling room (no joke), and 3 of our classes were held in rat-infested portables.

Our masses were held in the same room (a gym with a stage) that we used for gym, assemblies, basketball and volleyball games, school plays, band class and the winter band concert. It used to be a cafeteria as well, but they got rid of that and started having kids just eat in the classroom. We even had to hold Jazz Band class in the science classroom. We would literally move desks out of the way to fit a drum set .

As soon as I graduated, they opened the next fall in a brand new, $3.6 million school with AC, a full college-sized indoor basketball court/gym, a band room, and plenty more classrooms to accommodate the new Kindergarten and Preschool. I was a little jealous , but at least the old school used old fashioned bells, instead of those newer electronic bells that I can't stand. Annoy and startle the crap outa me.