naturalplastic wrote:
The same reason factories have whistles, and prisons have bells.
So they can keep the inmates in line like cattle. And its a tradition. Lol!
But yes - in my highschool they didn't use tardy bells. the mechanical bells were there on the wall, and were used in fire drills, but they figured we were adult enough by that time to not need to hear the bells between each hour class. In fact I remember reading that very thing in some missive from the principal.
I didn't have any kind of sensory issue about bells. So I just accepted it as part of our regimented life. Not that I ever had any choice.
Actually my memory maybe off. It might have been junior high that had that principal that didn't believe in tardy bells, and that I went back to hearing tardy bells in high school. Hard to recall now precisely because ...it wasn't a big deal to me at the time. Sorry to hear that it effected you so severely.
I used to have sensory issues especially when I was in grade school. Since high school it has become much less of a problem.
Interesting story. My high school (or at least the one building on the campus that was grades 9-10) had both the electronic-sounding tone and the actual mechanical bells. A couple of the mechanical bells were still installed and their ringing was synced with the electronic-tone one. For the fire alarms the particular building used those older electrical-mechanical buzzers from the 60s-70s. You know, the ones that sound like a scoreboard buzzer?
19 Nov 2019, 7:33 pm
