I find it hard to believe any tears were shed by kids over this. If my elementary school had burned to the ground, we would have been celebrating for weeks. LOL.
When they removed an very old elementary school near me to build a new one... you’d be surprised at how many ES kids (and middle school/high school kids that had gone there)... were in tears. Even with the “new” building, many felt they “missed” the old one.
Within weeks you'd bemoan the new FEMA-trailer classrooms.
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I liked my elementary school, good memories.
I’m old of course.
I liked my elementary school, good memories.
I’m old of course.
Many classrooms have small pets in them.
Used to be found on the inside flap of every textbook:
In case of fire, throw this in!...............
Until they bus the kids across town or to the next town for school.
This was a magnet school where students were more likely to be emotionally invested in their education. But I know what you mean.
Perhaps there is some remote possibility that not everybody thinks like you.
“I find it hard to believe any tears were shed by kids over this. If my elementary school had burned to the ground, we would have been celebrating for weeks. LOL. “
Agreed, except for the gym. We were really used to those rims.....
School represents stability to many children whose home lives are chaotic. At school they have a teacher who loves them and who is there every day with a smile on her face. At school they have breakfast and lunch and sometimes a snack provided by the teacher or a parent. Of course, there are exceptions to the smiling teacher rule. I could not get my son to go to class last year on many occasions. He hated his teacher who was a bully. He wouldn’t have cried over the school burning down. He would have been in awe and maybe scared. One or two of my girls might have cried over their school burning down because their social lives would be interrupted.
I was very fortunate to go a great school...sorry for you.
FMCDH(BITS)
“I find it hard to believe any tears were shed by kids over this. If my elementary school had burned to the ground, we would have been celebrating for weeks. LOL.”
Lol, many children would, but actually it’s not as fun as a child would think.
When I was in Second grade my elementary school caught fire one evening, a couple of weeks before Christmas break. The back half of the building was a total loss, the front mostly smoke and water damage. My classroom was destroyed.
We had an early Christmas break, which we liked, but for the rest of the year we attended school in one of the larger churches in our small town.
It got pretty boring not having playground equipment for Physical Education and recess. Sometimes our teacher would walk us to the burned school and we would play on the equipment.
Your school burning wouldn’t have been as much fun as you would think:)