Another thing I didn't even think about until I lived up north was air conditioning in the schools. I graduated from St. Petersburg High and we never had A/C, and neither did my jr. high or elementary school. I couldn't believe it when schools in Baltimore would let kids go home when it was too hot, and they had A/C.
My high school was built in 1926 and I graduated in 1968 and here is a recent photo. It's still going strong and it's not a small school, I just checked and they currently have 2250 students, which was about the same when I attended.
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