• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    At least you had windows. My kids are in a pretty new school building, but most of the classrooms are located in the middle of the building without windows and natural light. Seems like another one of those “only in America” things.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah the “middle” was the school yard surrounded by narrow buildings

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      9 months ago

      I’m sad to report it’s very much not limited to America. My local university had these things pop up to some considerable height because one of the buildings was condemned due to mold. Condemned about three years ago and is still standing. There’s also a number of schools using these things because they burned down or got condemned or whatever, I’m not entirely sure. At least one of those has been going two years longer than it was supposed to.

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        9 months ago

        Oh, I’m not talking about these “temporary” container-like structures. I’m talking about newly built permanent school buildings that have no windows in the classrooms. I’ve never seen that outside the US.

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          9 months ago

          I would guess that it depends on health regulations. For instance, in some (most?) countries it’s illegal to have a hotel room without a window and I presume, the same is applied to school rooms.

          Makes me wonder if there are school rooms without windows in China, where you are allowed to build hotels without windows 🤔

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      9 months ago

      My school had several holes in the middle of the building to avoid this. Most of them are just filled with gravel