Back in the time I went to our state school for the blind, mid/late 80 early 90sfor their summr school program, the old admin/dorm/dinning room building had several floors, ground, which was at the street level. They had admin offices and the like there, then a "basement" that was at garden level I think it is called. The activity room and dinning room nd a bunch of other rooms I never learned the use for were there... Then above the "ground" floor you had floors 1 and 2, which confused me at first because clearly anyone looking at the building could count 3 levels, plus the garden level... At any rate. There were stairs going from the garden level up to the top floor. Not straight up ut short flight a landig, short flight, a landing, ect. ect. We were always housed on the top floor of the building, even the SMH kids some of whome couldn't do the stairs. Which is hy we had the creeky old intreeguingly smelling rattletrap elevator... This thing was so old you had to pull a gate across before it would go anyplace and you couldn't fit many people on it. This is how the SMH kids went down to dinner or anyplace that as off the op floor. Execpt, that s, in case of fire or emergency, neither of hichever took plac hen I as here. If ever.
They, the school, ere required by law to have this thing, some contraption on wheels that you'd restrain a non-amblulatory person into and I guess slide down the steps. I nver got to see this thing in acton but did sk about it and hat was what I was told.
And... LOL OMG, if I'm seeing correctly, which may or may not be the case, this evening, and those ARE the horrid scratchy plastic chairs with the triangle hole out of the back, I too had to suffer them in grade school. I always wondered what that hole was for? Ventlation I guess...