ooms where the chairs were around the perimeter for Very Good Reasons
I'm trying to think of a reason for that, and I can't. Was the floor rotten in the middle or something? (At my HS, we kept the desks away from the perimeter, because the radiators tended to spurt boiling water out of their steam valves. Not a good place to be sitting in winter! We also had the creaky wooden floors that I think were actually made of more varnish than wood--whee, giant fire hazards! Yeah, that building dated from the 1880s, can you tell?)
It even had the "Men's" stairs at one end that were normal height and the "Women's" entrance on the other end with really low stairs.
Huh. I had never heard of this concept before, but that sounds kind of nifty.
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Date: 2009-08-19 05:13 pm (UTC)I'm trying to think of a reason for that, and I can't. Was the floor rotten in the middle or something? (At my HS, we kept the desks away from the perimeter, because the radiators tended to spurt boiling water out of their steam valves. Not a good place to be sitting in winter! We also had the creaky wooden floors that I think were actually made of more varnish than wood--whee, giant fire hazards! Yeah, that building dated from the 1880s, can you tell?)
It even had the "Men's" stairs at one end that were normal height and the "Women's" entrance on the other end with really low stairs.
Huh. I had never heard of this concept before, but that sounds kind of nifty.