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Did your school classrooms have a landline telephone for the teacher to use?
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No, but out of the unusual we had TV and Radio coax connectors in every classroom.
Painted over and unusable, of course.
Likewise, but with the CRT set still present in most of the classrooms. There would be an attempt to make use of them every once in a while with "video announcements" and school news, but it never stuck. Some of them had integrated VCRs and it was always funny watching the teacher climb or jump up to insert the tape.
They installed big flat screens in the cafetorium some time after I graduated, but I think it would have been much cooler to just bring out all the disused CRTs instead and make it look like one of those old production control rooms