Anybody visit their old schools?

[Rosewood]

I visit my old schools all the time!

I graduated in 85, but I still have teachers that are teaching, and I go visit them at work a few times a year. A few years ago, I went back to my grade school just for nostalgic reasons, and was shocked out of my mind to find one of my second grade teachers still teaching there. But even more shocking than that was when she recognized who I was! Talk about total recall! (LOL!)

 

[salemfan]

If you're looking for a place to give your old stuff to, give your old teachers things they can use, such as books for their classroom library, games and educational toys for indoor recess, and the like. That is what I did with some of my giveaways because my little cousin was too old for them. Has anybody done that?

 

[salemfan]

I have discontinued donating to my old teachers, but I still pay visits.

By the way, do you think visiting old schools is a daytime or a nighttime thing?

 

[Winslow Leach]

About two years after I graduated from high school, one of the walls in the history wing collapsed. Thankfully, it was during summer vacation, so there were no students or faculty.

Apparently the wall that collapsed was a "temporary" wall...which was put up in 1970! I guess the construction crew never got around to installing a permanant one.

Anyway, after the collapse and the damage to the rooms, the school board decided, hey, why not remodel the WHOLE school instead of just putting up a new wall?

I'm not kidding. It took almost five years for the construction crew to finish. They had to work every day, so that meant constant hammering, sawing and noise while the students were in class. You started as a freshman in an under-construction school, and by the time you were a senior, they were STILL working on it!

I've only been back there once, about two years ago to see a production of Les Miz. The auditorium is gorgeous! The seats are plush, and the stage is huge and gleaming. When I was there, we had hard, wooden chairs that would hurt your back and/or bottom if you sat in them for too long. Our stage was scuffed and cracked in places.

After the show, I walked around. I did not recognize a thing! Everything changed, from the placement of the lockers, to the library, to a state-of-the-art computer lab, to CARPETING IN THE HALLWAYS! Carpeting! I couldn't get over that!

The classrooms were bigger, brighter and air conditioned. We never had air conditioning. And yes, they too were carpeted.

But as I said in another post around here, I loved my four years of high school. Despite a lot of outdated facilities (and no carpeting), the high school I went to was MY high school. I still dream about it the way it was, and my friends the way they were. In my dreams, no one seems to age. We're all a bunch of Gen-Xers who had no idea what "internet" or "websites" meant. Our computer classes consisted of sitting in front of a screen, and seeing how fast you could type in a certain amount of time.

Performing on the old stage was fun, because generations of past students had tread those boards.

We had an alternate parking lot. If you didn't have a parking pass, you were forced to park in a gravelly lot near the school, which meant a longer walk to the building. That lot is now gone, replaced by a tennis court for the school.

I guess all I have are memories. A lot of the teachers I had have either retired or transferred to other schools. It's not my high school anymore.

But it was fun while it lasted...

 

[Winslow Leach]

Another sign of changing times: as soon as you walk into the building, you are confronted by a secretary in a booth who asks you who you are and what your business is. You are then given a pass.

This is the only entrance to the school.

When I was there, there were so many side doors to sneak out of during lunch (hee-hee). Anyone could walk in the front entrance, and walk quite a distance before seeing his or her first secretary.

And passes? We never dreamed of passes.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I would love to visit my Pre-school again, it's been years (obviously) and it would be such a nostalgic moment! Hehe

 

[salemfan]

Yeah, I know. Some of my friends tried to sign in at the office and visit their teachers, and they weren't allowed to. So when I go I pretend to be a student and avoid figures of authority. The teachers who know me don't mind, and the one who don't know me think I'm a student. It's only the councilors and principals I worry about.

Before I visit, I now have to call the school in advance to let the principal know I'll be there. This way, I won't be taken by surprise if there's a staff meeting, and over the phone, we settle on a date on which people will be there and available after school.

 

[maniacal muppet]

Well, I visit my old elementary school (Of course it was only a few years ago since I was goin there) and like all of my teachers remember my love of Muppets. My 6th grade teacher even mentioned 'em in my 8th grade yearbook.

 

[BeakerSqueedom]

I still visit my highschool despite unpleasent memories with the highschoolers. : P Let's just say I was 'unpopular' due to my quiet observant nature but I always do miss playing in the field with my ball or sitting in my little table in the courtyard where I'd just look up at the sky and dream in my own solitude. Or play with the childen (it was a private school that led from pre-k to highschool) while teaching them how to read. I remember frolicking with my young friends and telling them my adventures and showing my latest drawing to them--they always were hopeful to get more out of me. : )

:3 I miss my kids. Now, I'm in a grown up college with bunch o' pervs. XD

 

[SSLFan]

I would NEVER revisit my middle school: it was in the ghetto!

Gee 'Snowth, you remind me of the kids at my old middle school in the suburbs. It's like they had never visited the city of Detroit before. I tell ya, the suburbs is an evil place! If it wasn't so much crime in Detroit(which at many times is defined as a 'ghetto' city ), I would choose it over the suburbs any day!​

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