I learned today that some people attended schools where this was normal. The schools I went to only had phones in the office and the teachers lounge. What was your experience?
The teachers I had opened the window and shouted at the office
yES.
Yes, we kept messing with it because we would flip the dip switch on the phone from tone to pulse and you can’t use a pulse based phone on a tone based PBX.
I went to a brand new middle school for one year, I was in the first 8th grade class to attend that school, it had a schmancy new VoIP system with a telephone mounted just inside the door of each room, and each could get a line to dial out.
Every other K-12 school I went to had an older PA system, each room had a slanted front speaker box that could be used for one-way communication from the office to the entire building, or could be used two-way to a classroom. The classroom couldn’t call out, but the office could call in. There were phones in office spaces dotted around the campus typically.
I also only remember one teacher prior to the 9th grade that owned a cell phone.
yeah but this was the late 90s through 00s
Best we had was a buzzer that the teacher could use to communicate with the office. It’s kinda ridiculous looking back at it now. You’d think they would have had a phone system in place.
yeah I have seen the buzzer thing.
Yes, in classrooms and they should still.
No there was usually a two-way PA system that the teacher could call the school office with (an assistant principal would usually answer), but I don’t remember ever seeing an actual phone in a classroom.
I was in school in the late 90’s through the Bush years, two different public school systems in the Atlanta metro. All classrooms had a landline phone, the office would call in sometimes or we could call them. There was also a two way intercom and the office would spy on you or just become a voice in the sky
Only in the teachers lounge.
So, if somehting happened in the classroom, teacher was alone… all alone. Long run to the main offices.
Then again, there were no cell phones or internet, so nothing ever happened and if it did they were able to keep it local.
Teachers were also different. You did not fuck with the teacher or he/she kicked your ass. This however changed during my elementary school days.
When I was a kid my primary school did but my secondary schools didn’t, though they did have offices with phones in scattered throughout the campus so a phone was never far away.
That said, up until a couple years ago I worked in schools IT and whoever we were doing a network refit schools would always spec a couple of points in each classroom for a VOIP handset. Most could only make internal calls though.
No, they just used to send one of the kids to the office, or there was a student on ‘office duty’ for the office to contact the classrooms.
A bit like carrier pigeon, but the school didn’t have to pay for bird food
How else are teachers supposed to contact the office?
A couple classrooms I was in had an intercom buzzer that either had it’s own speaker or worked with the rooms loudspeaker!
By going there? None of my schools had any communication line between classroom and anywhere else, except for networking in the computer rooms
I think generally our teachers sent a child as a carrier pigeon
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Not in elementary school, no. Some of my highschool teachers had phones on their desks or in their offices depending on what they did.
They weren’t landlines, though. They were connected to an internal phone network.
