scottyrocks
I'll Lock Up
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Huh! Don't you start complaining. My school never had the luxury of air-conditioning! Even in the new buildings. In the classrooms of the original campus buildings (built in the 1910s/1920s), we put up with those enormous double-hung windows that came with the buildings. And those old double-hung windows are a challenge to open and shut. They're as old as the school buildings (nearly 100 years) and they jerk and rattle and bang and wobble around. Sometimes they stay open, sometimes they can slam shut without any warning at all. Sometimes you have to wrestle with them and shake them to get them open. Some of them won't open at all because the maintenance men were idiots and painted the windows incorrectly (you have to paint double-hung windows in a very specific way, otherwise the paint dries and jams the window-mechanism).
Those are the very windows thatve been in every school building Ive been in before this one. They open up nice and wide, even it if took some effort.
The windows here barely open, and the ones in the gym are three foot casements that are almost thirty feet in the air. Picture an 80+ degree day, a gymnasium full of active kids and teenagers all day, no AC, and no way to open those windows. I'll take the enormous double hung windows. And that cool pole we needed to open and close them. And the occasional 2x4 needed to keep them open when they wanted to slam shut.