When I entered high school at the age of 14, the old building had seen better days. It was built in the 1920s and was only superficially repaired in the years since. We hated that the students on the other side of our city got to attend a much newer high school with better textbooks, desks, lockers, and upgraded computer labs. They even had a state-of-the-art kitchen inside the student cafeteria that served personal pizzas and fried chicken tenders as an alternative to normal meal options. Even if we wanted to attend classes at this school, we weren’t allowed to unless we lived within that particular zone within the school district. The only other exemptions were allowed for health reasons or a unique academic situation, such as a student getting bullied constantly or struggling with learning disabilities. One of the things we hated the most about our old high school was the abysmal heating and cooling system. There were old steam boilers in the basement for heat and poorly-designed air conditioners for early summer weather. If it was the middle of spring, often we wouldn’t have any kind of indoor climate control within the halls of the school. I developed severe allergies whenever the indoor climate control systems were switched off at my old high school. I was visiting my parents recently and drove by the place of my old high school campus. The old building was demolished and a new high school was standing in its place. Hopefully the new high school has better indoor climate control than the last one.