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I would hazard a guess that it has to do with a lot of American schools being made during the Cold War, and designed to double as emergency shelters.

• badrabbit 6y ago
  You know, that might actually be a reasonable explanation.
• Lammy 6y ago
  That was the impression I always got from my 1984-built Elementary school building. It was all concrete block construction with odd roof angles taken low to the ground. Many fond memories of using the Macintosh LCs in a completely-windowless freezing-cold chamber in the center of the building.
• mywittyname 6y ago
  Not just the cold war. My elementary school was originally from the early 20th century and it had the vestiges of the subsequent wars: bomb shelter signs, eerie hallways without windows, heavy metal doors to transition between sections of the building.
  • jstarfish 6y ago
    > My elementary school was originally from the early 20th century and it had the vestiges of the subsequent wars: bomb shelter signs, eerie hallways without windows, heavy metal doors to transition between sections of the building. Some/all of that have less to do with war and more to do with general disaster preparedness. * Bomb shelters provide shelter from...bombs, yeah * Windowless hallways provide shelter from tornadoes (no glass to break/become shrapnel) * The heavy metal doors are firewalls that automatically close when the alarm goes off (most are hollow, won't do shit against assault weapons and predate even Columbine)