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Did your school classrooms have a landline telephone for the teacher to use? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Every single classroom I was ever in had a corded phone in case they needed to contact the front office or in case of an emergency. The only exception would be gym class, or orchestra class, where the phones would probably just be in the teacher's office ( classroom? ).

This wasn't the 90s or 2000s, but later. I personally think it's a pretty good idea. Even if everyone has a phone, having a backup in the classrooms just in case is useful since, unless the power goes out, you don't have to worry about not being able.to call the outside world if your personal phone is dead.

Front office definitely had their own corded phones as well. I presume it's the same for middle school as it was for highschool, but student office had a phone that the students could use in case they needed at my highschool as well.

Edit: the phones were normally on their desks, so messing with them wasn't an option. We did have a PA system at every school I attended, but I don't ever recall there being a way to respond outside of calling the front office.