A visiting sixth grader stepped out of the restroom at Sophie’s school at an event this evening and remarked to his friend:
This bathroom is so old school. To get a paper towel you have to push a little thing.
Not to mention you have to rub it on your hands to get the water off and then find a “trash can” to dispose of the used device. It’s so… analog!
A sixth grader describing something an actual school as “old school” must mean something he or she recalls from first grade. Now, it so happens that I attended an old school. Push button paper towels are definitely “new school”. But then — to me — so are indoor plumbing, juice boxes, quill pens, the letter “K”, horse-drawn buses … the full gamut of modernity.