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?
I have one in my room currently.
It wasn’t a land line but connected to the school switchboard. You had to go through the office to get an outside line because students would use them if not.
Both the schools I went to and the schools I have taught at had landlines in the classroom, as well as some in the lounge and the main offices. They were all real big on parent teacher communication so that might have been a reason why.
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.
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.
The teachers I had opened the window and shouted at the office
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
No, but out of the unusual we had TV and Radio coax connectors in every classroom.
Painted over and unusable, of course.
Yes, in classrooms and they should still.
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.
I think generally our teachers sent a child as a carrier pigeon
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No, people would just walk over
We did. I only saw it get used once or twice a year, usually to take a call from the front office or the school nurse. There was some internal numbering scheme and a certain prefix for calls to outside numbers.
The announcements also went through the same kind of phone used in the classrooms. Source: was appointed as the announcer for a year.
Addendum: If it wasn’t a private matter, the front office just paged the intercom speaker of the recipient classroom. The teacher would yell back into the speaker and it was a good day if one of us students were allowed to reply instead.
None of my schools had phones in the classrooms. We had intercom systems that the teacher could use. A speaker on the wall with a button to press to call the front office and another to press when speaking. The only phones I knew of were in the front office and in the teachers lounges.
Kinda? You had to press a code to dial out, otherwise they were only good for calling the office or other classrooms.
