The Sky is Falling

One of the other issues with teaching in an old building is all of the band-aids and additions that are put on the building in order to keep it functional. At Overton, there have been 2 major additions and several minor ones (including one minor addtion that finished this year.)

The first major addition happened in the 70s and put on a vocational building. That was back when every kid took machine shop, wood shop, auto mechanics, home economics, etc.

The second addition was completed in the mid 90s and put a bunch of up to date science rooms/labs into the building. (Also locker rooms, an auditorium, and some other stuff).

I tell you all of this to set up the fact that sometimes one wing will have AC and others won't. On one such day, I moved my class to a different classroom because it had air. There was one problem, however. The new class had a ceiling that was leaking. Two of the drop down ceiling tiles were wet and I felt a couple of drips of water as I stood in front of the class.

Then, in an instant, it all came down. Both of the tiles and all of the water they were holding up fell directly on my head. The kids erupted and I stood in disbelief.