Random Flashback: The Teacher's Lounge

[palitoy]

Had a parent teacher conference today and we had it in the teacher's lounge.

I couldn't help but remember what a forbidden door of mystery that was growing up. I always tried to sneak a peak in there, which was impossible because of the smoke.

Seriously, I remember it being like a fog machine was running full blast. Seems like another world now.

[jessica]

OMG that's so true. I remember that the teacher's lounge always enveloped in smoke. You couldn't see beyond two feet. And definitely it was a forbidden area.

[Mikey]

My school was pretty small and so was the teacher's lounge.

It sat next to our little library room.

Had no windows and was like being in a closet.

Most of the teachers ate lunch in the cafeteria with the students

For smoking, they used to stand and smoke in the emergency exit door (each classroom had one)

[david_b]

It was like the Forbidden Zone, an 'Inner Sanctum' for teachers and staff alike..

Did anyone here (over 40) actually ever venture in..?? What was it like?

david_b

[Mikey]

It was like the Forbidden Zone, an 'Inner Sanctum' for teachers and staff alike..

Did anyone here (over 40) actually ever venture in..?? What was it like?

david_b

It did and remember it clearly ....
A room about 8' x 12'
Painted white cider block walls
One side had a counter with a mini fridge, coffee maker and microwave.
In the centre of the room was a table with about 6 cafeteria style chairs around it.
The room was super clean -- probably because nobody ever used it

[4NDR01D]

smelt of strong coffee and cigerettes.

[Sideshow Spock]

It's like you guys went to middle school with me. I don't recall a teacher's room in elem or HS, but in middle school the door/room was in a main corridor I used regularly. Walking past that (open) door was like getting punched in the face by coffee/smoke smell.

[The Toyroom]

I remember the teacher's lounge had a lot of orange and brown furniture.....

[kerowack]

I teach at the high school I attended (I'm 32) and it was FREAKY going in the lounge for the first time. Even though I don't use it AT ALL, it was weird to walk in and see a set of stairs that led to another section of the lounge (which had a game of checkers left unattended for probably thirty years....)

The room still carries the stigma it did for me as a student though.....just strange....

[megomania]

The movie 'Teachers' with Nick Nolte and Judd Hirsch....great scenes in the teachers lounge...