  6 Old Photos of Kids Who Are Way Tougher Than Modern Adults
#3. Sick Kids Had to Go to School Outside, in Winter   Behold
the magnificent installations of the St. James' Park Open-Air
School in London, one of the many educational establishments
from a hundred years ago that intentionally exposed kids to the
elements, all year long, due to a tragic misunderstanding of how
medicine works. Before the discovery of antibiotics, doctors
pretty much took their best guess and made shit up about how to
cure disease. To treat tuberculosis, for example, the thinking
was that plenty of fresh air, all the time, would fix those
lungs right up. For kids, especially those in the inner city,
this meant "no heating for you."  Naturally, this custom also
found its way to the New World, because we couldn't let those
Brits prove that they cared more about the children than us (and
if we did so while saving on utility bills, even better) --
here's a school in Minnesota with a troubling lack of walls,
made even more troubling by