Some will find this a weird question. 🤔

Do you remember if your classroom at school had windows to the exterior at your left, right or any location looking towards the blackboard ? If so, which ?

To be continued.

At my high school, I seem to recall the windows being to my left while facing the blackboard in most if not all of my classrooms.

Both. It depended on which side of the hallway I was on

3 hours ago, Externet said:

Some will find this a weird question. 🤔

Do you remember if your classroom at school had windows to the exterior at your left, right or any location looking towards the blackboard ? If so, which ?

To be continued.

This is ridiculous. I attended 4 different schools over 13 years, the last 5 of which were at one in which pupils moved from classroom to classroom for each different subject. As far as I know this is common practice (and essential in science subjects, due to use of laboratories).

3 hours ago, Externet said:

Some will find this a weird question. 🤔

..most will find this a stupid question.. ;)

1. Some will find this a weird question. 🤔 Do you remember if your classroom at school had windows to the exterior at your left, right or any location looking towards the blackboard ?

Only interesting for spy..

16 minutes ago, exchemist said:

This is ridiculous.

Not really. From the amount of data you give online, it is possible to find your true name..

e.g. you said you had promo at year XYZ, Then somebody can lookup for face book for this year.. and one of these will be your photo.. and so on..

It is called OSINT.

Edited February 10Feb 10 by Sensei

6 hours ago, Externet said:

Some will find this a weird question. 🤔

Do you remember if your classroom at school had windows to the exterior at your left, right or any location looking towards the blackboard ? If so, which ?

To be continued.

I remember, left. I think, it was intentional.

7 hours ago, Externet said:

Some will find this a weird question. 🤔

Do you remember if your classroom at school had windows to the exterior at your left, right or any location looking towards the blackboard ? If so, which ?

To be continued.

Maybe you should've added, for clarity, "looking towards the blackboard in a head-up position" 🙂.

I attended different schools and different classrooms and the only ones with windows not on left were in basement with no windows.

I think mostly to the left. Here in Poland we move between different classrooms throughout the school day as a group. In Poland you don't take classes like in the US, you are IN a class, the same group of 18-25 people, you have the same lessons with the same people.

9 hours ago, exchemist said:

pupils moved from classroom to classroom for each different subject

In high school, I moved from classroom to classroom for each different subject. But the layout of all the buildings seems to be such that the windows were on the left when looking to the front. And the door was on the right, at the front of the classroom. However, I can't recall every classroom I was in, so I can't say there were no classrooms that were different. And there may have been classrooms that were different for particular reasons.

2 hours ago, Otto Kretschmer said:

the same group of 18-25 people, you have the same lessons with the same people

In infants and primary school, I was in the same classroom with the same students and the same teacher for all subjects for a whole year. In different years, the classroom and teacher usually changed, but the students were usually the same. The students were grouped according to their overall grades. But in high school, each subject for each year had its own classroom and teacher, both of which were the same throughout the year, and the students were grouped according to their grades for that subject. And because particular subjects were taught by particular teachers in particular classrooms, the teachers and classrooms for a particular subject tended not to change from year to year.

High school classrooms I attended had windows on both left and right hand side in different rooms of the same school

Why the Windows in School Classrooms are Normally on the Left-Hand Side | RWTH Aachen University | EN

11 hours ago, Sensei said:

..most will find this a stupid question.. ;)

You are entitled to your own opinion.

8 hours ago, Genady said:

it was intentional.

Yes, it is.

For the majority of right handed people, and languages written from left to right, it is preferred for the hand not to shade the paper being written.

Which spins the next ; For languages written from right to left; are classrooms designed with windows on the right instead ? and, is there a majority of left handed in those countries ?

11 minutes ago, Externet said:

For languages written from right to left; are classrooms designed with windows on the right instead ? and, is there a majority of left handed in those countries ?

I don't know the answer for the first question, but the answer for the second is, definitely no.

1 hour ago, KJW said:

And because particular subjects were taught by particular teachers in particular classrooms, the teachers and classrooms for a particular subject tended not to change from year to year.

Actually, an exception to this was first year high school, when all of the classes were in the same building, and subjects not requiring specialised classrooms were in the same classroom. Different subjects had the same students but different teachers. First year high school students were grouped according to their primary school grades, somehow correlating the grades from different primary schools. First year subjects were somewhat different to the subjects of years two to four, and fifth and sixth year subjects were different again.

A properly designed classroom should observe the incoming light direction for the writing direction taking place, visual without covering the writing, nor smearing the ink. Learned that at high school and never saw it divulged. Unsure modern schools take that in account...

Edited February 10Feb 10 by Externet

4 minutes ago, Externet said:

Genady: No as do not remember ?.

I certainly remember that majority of people in Israel were right-handed.

I remember two classrooms there. One, from a short Hebrew language course. It had windows on the left. Another, from a short professional upgrade course. It had windows on the right. I don't remember my kids' classrooms though.

Interesting being applied in reverse. Also could had been a change in the original intention of the rooms and nobody cared.

I'd guess the latter is correct.

1 hour ago, Externet said:

Unsure modern schools take that in account...

In US, sadly, there are now newer buildings with smaller windows and less reliance on natural light, so that LH layout may be no longer followed. All my pre-college schools, in the sixties and early seventies, had windows on the left. (Unless they were a chem lab or woodshop area, where we sat at lab tables, so people faced both ways. ) I was LH, but it never crossed my mind that there were light/shadow issues with writing.

I was instructed very early to set up my writing desk at home so that the window is on the left and also to put the lamp on the desk on my left and it was explained to me with the light/shadow argument.

4 minutes ago, Genady said:

I was instructed very early to set up my writing desk at home so that the window is on the left and also to put the lamp on the desk on my left and it was explained to me with the light/shadow argument.

Yes it makes more sense with a single source of light at night. I must have adjusted my desk lamp at night for least shadow, without thinking much about it. By day, we had an old house with lots of windows, so there was light bouncing all over, and no deep shadow problem.

3 hours ago, Genady said:

Why the Windows in School Classrooms are Normally on the Left-Hand Side | RWTH Aachen University | EN

My thought about it being because of right-handedness and not creating a shadow is supported by this, but it’s by no means universal. I’ve seen both orientations, and plenty where the windows were in the back.

And it’s probably only an issue for the first column; I’d think overhead lights render it mostly moot.

I can't see that the writing in school argument ever gained any traction is British schools.

From Victorian to modern times, classroom layout in relation to windows took juaat about every configuration imaginable.
Many schools were built upon three or four sides of a square principle with a corridor of classrooms along each compass facing.

Also schools were built all over the world encompassing many different aspects, sun entry angles, and architectural features such verandahs or shading canopies.

Many factories were built with so called north light rooves to provide even non direct sunlight to the machinery inside.

This very poor Wikipedia article refers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_light_(architecture)