What’s up with the bulky TVs in most classrooms?

These TVs seem to have been here forever. Let’s see how long they’ve actually been here. 

Mr. McGee is a teacher here at Carter High School. He attended Carter and graduated in 2004. He has now been teaching at Carter for 10 years and began teaching in 2010. When asked, “Do you know what year the TVs originally got here?”McGee says, “I would say between the 80’s and 90’s.” His father used to work here at Carter when Mr. McGee was a child and he has memories of watching cartoons on them when he would sit in the classroom. He says, “cable was pretty expensive back then so I would just come watch cartoons on them when I would wait for my dad.” Mr. McGee explained how his teacher turned on the classroom TV to watch 9/11 on it. He thinks that the TVs have been left up because they are a “relic at this point.” 

It’s so crazy how these TVs could access so much. Why would the school let the TVs have so much to watch on them? Sense they are in a school, you would expect them not to have much on them besides educational programs. 

Pagie Hancock is a teacher at Carter Middle School. She also attended Carter High School and graduated in 1998. When asked when the TVs got there, she said, “I honestly have no clue. They were there all of my high school years.” She remembers watching science programs on them and fighting not to fall asleep because the programs were so boring. 

So, not much information was really found about these “historic” TVs. I guess nobody really knows the exact year they were put up. They just kind of appeared, and maybe the school is just too lazy to take them down.