[macquire]

The “air conditioning” in our old school study hall was the huge windows without screens on them that they would open up on warm days. The study hall had two floors of classes directly below it. I can’t tell you how many times bored kids would light a firecracker and throw it out the window when the teacher on duty wasn’t looking to buzz things up a bit.

I would imagine that would be a life sentence today....

[Second Amendment First]

We used to have the rows of tall windows with pull blinds that had long heavy cords on them. We would tie all of them into nooses. A whole long line of nooses hanging there. Can you imagine the outcry that would happen today if a student did that?

[noinfringers2]

Wow! You brought back memories of years ago. One time I was in a class on 2nd floor. I had ‘bomber’ cracker and was showing it off. Guy seated in back of me dared me to light the cracker and throw it out the open window about 2ft away across the aisle. I lit the cracker and gave it a heave. Only thing wrong was the cracker missed the the open section of the window and rebounded back under the seat of the girl seated next to me. Big bang and lots of smoke. I still remember the girl and how she came into view out of the smoke. Didn’t go to school for a couple of days to just let the ‘smoke clear’.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

We had fans. They would go vroom vroom vroom and it would be so hot the sweat dripping off your nose would be blurring the blue lines on your paper. If you didn't pop someone with a spitball every so often you would fall asleep.

We would most likely have slept through school and have no education at all without spitballs!