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Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by tdumitrescu on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:16AM (#19859587)
My HS in central NJ had neither windows in the classrooms, nor WALLS. It was designed like a giant open office bullpen thing and classes were supposed to congregate in vaguely defined areas. By the time I got there in the early 90s, they had already erected borders everywhere out of movable chalkboards, so you basically got a traditional classroom layout but with noise pollution from all the other classes going on nearby. Great job all around. (Though I suppose from the CO2 standpoint we were probably doing better than most!)
Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by Broken_Hippo on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:11AM (#19866293)
The walls were part of a new teaching fad. I lived in a city that tried it out in one school. Each floor was an open plan for the classrooms. This one elementary school was their trial.

The teachers had a love/hate relationship with this plan.

Re:Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber? by vdnkh on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:47PM (#19860639)
Sounds like HHS. I was there in the 00s and the borders were these "permanent" accordion wall things