re: #180 KGxvi

My elementary school had 2 doors in each class room. One opened to the parking lot and one opened to the playground.

In junior high pretty much all the classrooms were inside buildings.

In high school we had a mix. There were classic classrooms inside buildings, but we also had portable buildings that all opened to the outside. We had also taken over an elementary school across the street, so all those classrooms opened to the outside. Also, we only had lockers my freshman and sophomore years (they took them out because we had more students than lockers, but didn’t bother giving us home and classroom books) which were all outside as well.

Except the school I went to in Brazil and the white-segregated kindergarten and first grade I went to in Maryland, all schools had classrooms opening on hallways and no exit to the outside. Michigan is pretty cold.

It is cheaper to design buildings which have no hallways though (no wasted space for hallways).