High School Daze.

That meme yesterday evening made me want to say more about my high school.

mamculuna talked about crossing the street as a senior to get hot dogs. My high school was at the intersection of two multi-lane highways. The only thing across 'the street' was the state mental hospital! The closest store was a good mile down the road, and sadly no hot dogs there.

When we moved into the area the school district had no high school. My sister started high school several school districts over. When it was built our high school was farther away from us than the one she had been attending.

As I said, almost no students drove to my school, and nobody walked. The land the high school was on was donated. The grounds were so large that when they decided to replace the high school building, the old building I attended became a junior high, and a new high school was constructed facing the other highway and they did not have to move the original football field.

The old high school building was a disaster. People on the school board questioned the architect about a feature (all the halls radiating from a single rotunda) that seemed to funnel all the students through one particular point in the building after every class. The architect said it would be fine. He was wrong. As the school was added on to, there were more ways to get around, but the rotunda remained a crowded mess after every class.

I remember the high school had a nice little library, but I rarely was in it. With everyone riding the bus there was really little time before or after school to go there. We had no study hall time. Can't say I remember seeing anyone going in there during lunch time. The librarian could have been a full-time watcher for a slayer in that school and no one would have noticed.

It probably was close to a tradition everywhere, but everyone hated the principal.