Schools in a southern California-like climate can have an outdoor cafeteria, where it snows it is all indoors.
In the Los Angeles area, elementary schools with “motel-style” classrooms whose doors open directly outside are very common. I’ve always presumed this is cheaper than fully-enclosing everything, and that it’s practical because we simply don’t have a “winter” they way much of the country would think of one.
Any American who does use birth control will have at least one “accident” with it and spend at least 20 minutes waiting for the home pregnancy test. No one can have more than one negative test before actually becoming pregant.
My junior high school, and my first high school, both in Vancouver, WA, had classrooms that were entered from outdoors. Not all of the classrooms, but many of them. There was one building in the junior HS that had a bunch of “classrooms” surrounding a central library; the classrooms were “open” and simply separated by partitions.
The high school was opened in 1964, while the junior high was built in the early '70s.
My elementary school, OTOH, was probably 1940s-50s vintage, and the oldest “core” section was a long hallway with classrooms opening off either side. Newer wings, built in the '70s, also had classrooms you entered from indoors, but they were arranged in groups of three classrooms around a central “lobby”.
My elementary school had had both doors leading into corridors, which were the main entry/egress as well as doors leading out in a courtyard/playground area. These were rarely used, for thing like fire drills, school spirit day and the occasional warm sunny day/outdoor teaching. The school itself was one building with the classrooms enclosing a small courtyard.
Hey! I own a pair of green plaid pajamas and a matching green plaid bathrobe. And I’m not an effeminate nerd.
At least, I don’t think I am.
Almost all policewomen are beautiful enough to be able to go undercover as high-priced call girls.
Any detective working Homicide, Narcotics, Vice or Special Victims will draw their firearm several times a year, and have at least three or four shootings on their record.
Florida, I’d imagine that it would be entirely unfeasible in most parts of the country. The middle and high schools aren’t like that though since the students move around and need lockers. Like I said I have no idea how common it is but thought that it was worth mentioning.
In the movie Summer School, the classrooms are all like that. But it was in California. And Kirstie Alley was thin. Classroms open from the outside, lockers are outside…
I had forgotten this, but my 5th grade classroom was the same way. It was in a new wing of the building that had been designed that way, the older classrooms only had an entrance from the hallway. Before the new wing was built a fair number of classes were held in portable classrooms (basically a one-room mobile home) out behind the main building. Those were of course entered directly from outside.
It’s amazing how accurate some of these are…
I’m a bald stepfather.
Oh. Never mind.
All the schools (well, except Francis’s military academy) were set up like this on Malcom in the Middle.
At least 25% of the US population is jewish, any random group of friends will include a practicing jew most likely.
My siblings and I attended a middle school and high school that had the traditional indoor hallways, but also “portable” bungalows that opened to the outdoors and were added as the schools became more crowded. The high school had, in addition to lockers lining the hallways, roofed outdoor “cages” that contained more lockers. These were presumably added about the same time as the bungalows, in the 70’s I think. Though both schools had a cafeteria, most students preferred to eat at the outdoor tables. This arrangement worked fairly well most of the year, not so well during the rainy season.
…and at least 90% of Jews are male.
One of the giveaways that the original Halloween was shot in California, not Illinois, was showing outdoor lockers at the school. Enjoy those frozen books!
The other 10% being their mothers.
In other words: My observation is true.
Americans get their hair styled by a pro when the sleep.
Americans clean their teeth with only 3 to 4 strokes of tooth brush.
Americans do not suffer from bad breath when they wake up, as seen from the amount of kissing they do in bed.
More later…