# Did anybody else have those "pod" classrooms?

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**Created:** [September 14, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-else-have-those-pod-classrooms/634688 "2012-09-14T12:31:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
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Yup.

High school, in the 70s.

Noisy, crumby, cheesy.

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-else-have-those-pod-classrooms/634688/22 "2012-09-15T04:18:39Z")

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My high school had pod classroom before I started there in the mid 70s, but because of the noise they installed walls again so I never had pods.

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**Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-else-have-those-pod-classrooms/634688/23 "2012-09-15T04:40:42Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> …My elementary school had classrooms in pairs that were divided by those segmented walls that ran on tracks in the ceiling so that each pair could be turned into a larger single room.

My elementary school had the same setup, but only on the first floor.

> [@chela](#):
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> Yup, late seventies middle school. Open concept, no walls. No windows either, but one. The Principal had a big picture window in the second story office that looked over the entire school…

What the hell was the point of that setup? :eek: It sounds like somebody converted a warehouse into a school on the cheap?

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**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anybody-else-have-those-pod-classrooms/634688/24 "2012-09-15T16:16:24Z")

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Yep. Third to fifth grades, the school and two pods (Primary and Secondary, I think it was), connected by corridors to another corridor that had offices and the auditorium/music room/lunch room. The school library was in the center of one pod, the other pod had one of those “pit” seating areas–concentric rings of carpeted stairs. 4 “classrooms” per pod segment, but I don’t remember how many segments per pod.

ETA: It was a new school when I went there, in the early 70s.

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