The elementary school I went to is still there. In fact, I was looking through some of their staff members on the official website, and most of the teachers and staff members from when I went was still there.

It's a shame I never graduated from the one that got taken away from me.

blueluigi wrote :
The elementary school I went to is still there. In fact, I was looking through some of their staff members on the official website, and most of the teachers and staff members from when I went was still there.

That would put a smile on my face. Just knowing that things had not changed much since I had left there.

shakin steak wrote :
I've posted a satellite view of my first elementary school on this board before...a very unique building, a circular part that held the classrooms at one end, with a courtyard in the middle, connected by a hallway to a rectangular part that held the office, nurse, and multipurpose room (gym/lunchroom/auditorium). As far as I know it's still operating. 800 miles away, but my mom likes to kerp me updated on what's happening over there so if it closed I think I would know.

Anyway, community centers are nice. I'm glad to see schools live on that way (especially in this economy where so much stuff gets shut down and other stuff I could bitch about...) Schools, and I really love buildings, architecture, planning, sociology--old schools are some of the most amazing buildings.

I don't remember seeing that satellite view of your school.

At least if the buildings themselves live on as community centers and such, then there is that comfort that that part of your history is not completely erased from the face of the earth, living on only in your memories. And, perhaps, we can revisit them as well.

I can't remember what thread it was in...but this is the place:

roygerdodger wrote :
Mine is still around, but only 2 kindergarten teachers I had classes with are still there. The rest of the staff have already left.

Still, that's nice to hear. So many schools are getting consolidated now, our smaller schools are becoming extinct.