I NEVER attended a school 1st - 12th grade with an AC. We had windows and window fans to stir hot air.
“Teachers unions and educators are saying ...”
Haha, that’s hysterical. Maybe they should go back to the old schedule, when school started after Labor Day and ended before Memorial Day.
My spiritual director and I were talking about this yesterday. We both grew up in hot parts of the country before everything was air conditioned, and we all got by, including the school teachers, because they had the same no-a/c lives as the students.
Oh, no—84 degrees!
People fly thousands of miles to where it is in the low 80s just to play golf in the beating sun.
Maybe the educated fools should move the start date back to after Labor day and shorten the number of total days. The teachers don’t accomplish anything much and could cut the garbage they add to reading, writing, history, math, science & civics. Add recess outside everyday, lower salaries 5% and give a 6% bonus when a 80% of ateacher’s class passes tests at grade level.
51 degrees this AM
This is why it’s an absolute lock that they’re gonna declare an emergency and do as they wish without bothering with the law or legislation: We are at a place where they can simply claim a thing, any thing, is so and it is.
Public schools and illiterate teachers are doing more to impede learning than anything.
FIRE ALL OF THEM, We had NO air conditioning when I went to school 50 plus years ago.
Going to school in Houston before A/C was a nightmare in the heat.
That isn’t the situation being described here but why is routine school maintenance and building issues being treated as a national concern, the local schools need to keep their buildings up, upgrade their heating and cooling systems, repair their roofs, repave the parking lots, they have budgets for that.
One of the universal learning experiences of a voters life is that school bonds are always on the ballot to repair the horrible buildings that leak etc., etc., etc., but the young gullible voter eventually learns that the buildings seem to never get repaired and that the ballot issues for more maintenance/repair money are a standard ballot measure for eternity.
So now, global warming is making our kids dumber???
And all this time I thought it was our steering away from reading, writing and arithmetic to spend more time on cultural awareness and gender identifying.
How silly of me!
As a 66 yr old poster. I went to K-12 from 1962 - 1975, here in New Jersey. Not one room had AC. We all turned out fine.
Well, if we still had reliable power plants, we could have air-conditioning in the schools.
Nope.
Public schools are.
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I moved to the Baltimore area about fifteen years ago. Every spring this comes up because most Baltimore schools don’t have AC. They have increased taxes several time yet they never seem to get around to installing AC
84 Degrees? Oh No!!
Its not like generations of kids managed to get educated long before Air Conditioning existed...
I can assure you, I sat through far worse than 84 degrees in classrooms growing up in NC.
I don’t think I even attended a single school that had AC, except perhaps a window unit in the office until moved up north. Best we ever had were some big fans, at most.
I won’t say it was fun to be in a hot classroom, but blaming the heat for students not being able to learn? at 84 degrees?
To quote the dementia patient in the White House..
“Come on, man.”
Towards the end of one school year. It really got oppressive hot. I unlocked my classroom door and a wave of heat hit me in the face. Between the location of classroom (against gym wall and storage building, no breeze could come in) and a glitch in the heating system, my room was over 100 degrees. Luckily I didn’t have any animals in my room. Unfortunately my colleague in the next room lost all the fish in her tank, a hamster, iguana, and a half dozen emu eggs the kids were hatching for a farmer in our neighborhood.
Yes, air conditioning is a new thing. For centuries there was none.