We had a wide view of another school, tower-block apartments, and a large natural-gas storage plant.
In high school, towering above his classmates and teachers at 6 feet 3 inches tall, he passionately debated how to rid African-Americans of their second-class status.
Fettes College – an £11,000-a-term Hogwarts-lookalike public school – towered over my shitty state school, a dramatic reminder of the wealth disparity that still exists in Edinburgh, where 45,000 people live in areas ranked among the most deprived parts of Scotland, a country whose wealthiest 10percentt own nearly half the nation's wealth.
7 Minutes later, another elementary school, Plaza Towers, feels the full force.
The city is rezoning the once-industrial land for a 10-acre park, a school and towers containing 5,000 apartments, 60percentt of which would be set aside for households with income between $55,000 and $158,000 a year.
After sitting vacant for about 30 years, the old public school that towers prominently at the fork of McLean and Park Hill Avenues in southwest Yonkers is getting a second life, much to the relief of residents and city officials.
Joachim and Anne is an old-school school, with towering ceilings, school uniforms, an ancient public-address system, and a principal, Linda Freebes, who acts as a kind of air-traffic controller not just for the school but for the neighborhood.
Francis Gilbert (@wonderfrancis) says his son's school in Tower Hamlets, east London, will be without teachers next Wednesday.
Violet Markey encounters Theodore Finch on top of the school bell tower and he's on the other side of the fence.
From there he went to teach at the Phoenix school in Tower Hamlets, east London, which caters for pupils with special needs.
(And perhaps the only thing fancier than having gone to boarding school — Mr. Tower went to public school — is having an ancestor two or more generations before you who went to boarding school).
