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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … and Canadian

  I think the same people who designed prisons were the same people who designed modern high schools … both in the US and in Canada

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  • XnxCuX@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Im pretty sure one of my history teachers in high school taught us this… same general ideas directing prisoners around.

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  • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had a friend who complained about the high windows that you can’t even see out of in his high school, and he swore up and down that the building used to be a prison. I tried looking it up now to see the history, but I can’t find anything lol. Wouldn’t be surprised though if they actually were former prisons and the school just didn’t want the stigma associated with them.

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    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My wife is a teacher, she switched schools so she could be a department head (if they work for a term as one they get paid more in retirement). Her old school was brand new, A/C in the whole school, almost all windows. Her new school is like a prison complex, no windows in her classroom at all, all the brick and concrete blocks cell signal so she disappears digitally during school hours. She does have a 70’s science classroom though, so floor to ceiling glass cabinets full of real borosilicate lab glass. I had fun there while she was moving into her classroom.

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      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        My high school was like a community college campus with most of it being built in the 50s and 60s besides one new building. Glad it was like this because I got to walk outside everyday to go to classes. Only sucked in the winter when it snowed, when it thunderstormed, and if you had a class on one side of the campus and another on the other side because we only had 3 minutes to get to class. One time it stormed so bad that the wind destroyed my umbrella.

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