Its time for.. HOW UNDER-FUNDED IS YOUR SCHOOL?

[BabyPiglet]

shhh, you don't count.

 

[STOPxmickeytime]

Our school is maybe fifty years old?
But it's in really good condition and well-funded.

The only annoying thing is that the Board of Ed doesn't recognize girl's lacrosse as a sport, so we have to fund it ourselves.
I mean, it's not a problem, just the concept is annoying.

 

[WDWLIGHTNINGZ]

shhh, you don't count.

Discriminator!

 

[MrsSparrow..]

Umm I'm not sure exactly how old mine is, but I know definately part of our school was bombed in WWII. So it's pretty old. We're a really poor school as well. We don't even have lockers! Everyone has those old-fashioned desks with the ink holder as well (no we don't write with ink anymore ).

-Ashleigh

 

[Ms.Squeakers]

You lucky ducks.
My school is 77 and counting, thats why there are ghosts in it.
Its freaky deaky.
BUT.
That was my elementary school
I have no idea my midd school is..
but its underfunded.

They wasted money buying like a thousand smart boards and then we don't have money to buy for the importance.
Smooth move Buddy's...smooth...

 

[topaz_onyx]

Our schools over 70 years old, some tiles fell off the roof!!

 

[WDWLIGHTNINGZ]

Our schools over 70 years old, some tiles fell off the roof!!

That happens buildings of any age - tiles fell off our neighbours house and it's only 3 - 4 years old.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Oh and my school has Asbestos.. everywhere.

Its in the ceilings, but our teachers said dont worry, as long as no one moves it, you arent going to die.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Oh and my school has Asbestos.. everywhere.

Its in the ceilings, but our teachers said dont worry, as long as no one moves it, you arent going to die.

WOW.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

LOL! I know, it's a little disturbing.

There was a ceiling panel missing in my ceramics class one day, and I screamed, "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE'.

Then the teacher informed us that the asbestos were not on that "particular" panel. XD

 

[Axel]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). We can't carry backpacks without a medical note from our doctor (I've got one). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

Oh yes, I'm sure us children can rapidly climb through a 5 inch open window.
Cause you know, THE TEACHER WONT NOTICE.

 

[Axel]

Oh yes, I'm sure us children can rapidly climb through a 5 inch open window.
Cause you know, THE TEACHER WONT NOTICE.

Exactly. Because we're so going to climb out the THIRD FLOOR WINDOWS!

At my middle school I had an english teacher who wouldn't let us look out the windows because she was afraid that the newspaper down the street would take a picture of the school and that it would look like we were trying to escape (mind you, her class was on the 4th floor...). We also couldn't walk with sharpened pencils (she did that for us), scissors, or anything, really. And whenever we went to the bathroom we had to be "like a thief in the night".

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

That almost made me fall on the floor.

"CAREFUL CHILDREN, THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN, I DONT WANT YOU TO TRIP AND ACCIDENTALY FALL OUT THE 5 INCH SPACE."

xD

 

[Axel]

That almost made me fall on the floor.

"CAREFUL CHILDREN, THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN, I DONT WANT YOU TO TRIP AND ACCIDENTALY FALL OUT THE 5 INCH SPACE."

xD

lol. If you pop the bottom pane out of place and fold it up, they open to about 3 feet. It's so nice that the teachers know how to do that.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

Well, even so.
If these teachers are properly teaching their students, these kids should know not to jump out of windows. First, second or third floor ones. XD

 

[imabrat]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). We can't carry backpacks without a medical note from our doctor (I've got one). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

You just described my school!

Minus a few details,but our schools sound EXACTLY the same. The windows only open about 6 inches,no climbing out. Controlled air/heating. VERY sterile,white everything! But we've got state of the art desks,chairs,cabinets,yadda yadda yadda.

 

[joepic]

When I was in 9th grade, seniors (as a prank) let two bats loose in the hallway. It was hilarious.

 

[Sparx]

My school misuses its funding. we have terribly outdated text books, bad computers, etc, but we got AMAZING tables in the cafeteria.

 

[Saintzgurl]

We just got a new school built this year, but we're very underfunded.

The old school was 74 when we left and now it's the middle school. There was asbestos just about everywhere in the "old" wing- including several of my classrooms. There weren't enough class rooms so we had portables outside and we had to leave the building to get to them (even in the winter when it was like...-10).

The new school is currently leaking like crazy. in like 8 classrooms there are super industrial sized trashcans that are rapidly filling with water. It's insane and annoying. The sewer also backs up sometimes into the bathrooms.

My school's nickname is "San Quentin High" (San Quentin being a maximum security prison in California). We have cameras everywhere, the doors lock after 7:30 (when homeroom starts) and if you're late you have to walk around to the front entrance to get in. If you're late on a Thursday (we start and hour later becuase of teacher's meetings) then it's an automatic detention. If you wear a hat, it's a detention (or, in some cases an internal suspension). Gum is not allowed in the cafeteria. We can't have anything but water outside of the caf. and we can't eat in classrooms (we used to be able to so long as it was ok with the teachers). We can't carry backpacks without a medical note from our doctor (I've got one). The windows only open 4 inches because they don't want us climbing out (there's a way around that, though and all the teachers use it). We have no air conditioning for the spring/summer/fall months and it gets to be about 90 degrees on the top floor. I had v-ball pre-season in august and one day it was 92 degrees in the gym (first floor). One of the girls passed out from the heat and exercise despite taking regular water breaks every half hour. We have very little heat, too. The average room temperature is 55 degrees. But there's a way around it (you can't adjust the thermostats- they're controlled by one main thermostat in the janitor's room, which is locked at all times). All you have to do is place a wet paper towel over the thermostat and it tricks it into thinking the room is colder than it should be, so it pumps in more heat. And the school is extremely sterile-feeling.

Granted, we do have a new gym, a new student-run restaurant, a new band room and auditorium, 2 computer labs plus a mini-lab in the library, a new library, new auto and woodshop rooms as well as a new metalshop classroom (they used to be all combined), a new early childhood education room (complete with one-way glass for observing the pre-school), new art rooms, and our science rooms are all really nice now (plus, the windows open- they put new windows in the old building's science rooms and they didn't open! Really bad when you're working with chemicals).

My school is almost exactly the same except aur windows open approximately two feet and there are wire screens over all of them...yup...our jail has better lunches. All the school lunches on movies where a fat lady with a beard drops gray goop onto your tray and yells "next!" is our reality.