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Subject: Decrepit schools (slightly OT)
Date: Sun, 25 July 1999 07:20 PM EDT
From: Rozenfrei
I was thinking about how Sunnydale High was blown up, & is no more. It reminded me about how the grade school I went to is no more. The school was in a rural area, & didn't get enough funding for proper maintainance. The desks were so old they had spaces for inkwells in them! The place was condemned a year after I graduated, because light fixtures kept falling out of the ceiling & hitting students on the head. By then I was in high school--and
there was no improvement. You see it was in Wisconsin, & the yo-yo architect who designed the school was a big fan of Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright was also a Wisconsinite, and several buildings designed by him were nearby. Anyway, the dummy who designed my high school gave it a big flat roof. Get it straight, you stupid architects! You can't build a flat roof in a rainy climate! Our high school roof leaked like a sieve. Every year
repairmen would come to retar the roof. It didn't help. They would leave empty tar buckets which the janitor would leave in the hallway to catch the leaks. Ah yes, one of my fondest memories of high school is tripping over the tar buckets in the hallway! My English teacher Mrs. Gustavson said that one year it leaked so bad in one room that mold began growing on the walls. She said it reminded her of "a botanical garden." With these memories, I
got to wondering. So here is my little poll. Have any other of you people gone to a school that was a decrepit stink hole? (I mean a physical stink hole. If I meant an emotional stink hole then EVERYBODY'S SCHOOL would qualify.)
Rozenfreiheit :-)
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