"For I am the Destroyer of worlds..."

[sergebroom]

Here is the school where I went for Grades One thru Six. There I got rapped on the knuckles by my teachers, not all of them nuns.



That place hasn't been a school for about 40 years and is now a daycare center. Grades Eight and Nine were in a school where I made some new non-friends, and that place was razed not long after I moved across the street to a bigger school where the teachers and the librarians liked me, and where some students didn't. That place is still standing, but closed.

And here is where I attended Grade Twelve. It is the only school about which I have mostly good memories. It still stands and is very much alive.



Which conclusion should I draw from all this?

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The hospital where I was born isn't standing now. (Oddly, the mother of a colleague of mine -- here in Atlanta -- was a maternity nurse in that hospital when I was born.)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

For all you know, she saw you when you were but a squirming newborn.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. It's one of those small world things.

[readinggeek451]

The hospital where I was born is still going strong, but hasn't had a maternity department in more than 30 years.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

My high school is very much a going concern (as it should be, since I was a member of the very first freshman class there back in 1968), but it got turned into a magnet school for Science and Technology sometime in the 80s or 90s.

Amusingly, I've seen a few funds requests from the alumni association and gotten some nasty mail (via "reply all", I suppose) from oldtimers like me saying "I wouldn't spend a dime on you guys; you're nothing like the school I went to back in ought-six."

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

Oops. Graduated in 1968; we opened the school in 1964.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

That first school I went to is the same school my father went to. That means it had to have been open in 1930 at least.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Last time I looked, the hospital where I was born was still around. I wouldn't know if it still has a maternity ward as I last went there in 1979, when I thought I had broken a small toe. Different department from births.