In 1969, while attending high school, I can clearly remember my first day of Biology Class. Our teacher telling us that in the case of the fire alarm sounding, we were all on our own. We were all 16 years old and could get ourselves out of a building. I thought this strange, first coming from a teacher, but also we were in the first room, first floor, closest to the front door. We later found out that our teacher was an OLA survivor. When the fire alarm test was coming, she would give us about 5 minutes warning. The bell would go off, she left. We would calmly go about closing windows or whatever and meet her outside. Not another word was ever spoken. I'm almost sorry - she could have probably helped with future school designs. She had her good and bad days but I have to give her credit: she came back to teach and she was a hell of a good teacher!
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