Do the public schools in your area have Air Conditioning?

[pstokely]

They schools around here have only had it for less than 5 years.

[Fleshdancer]

1. oh dear goddess yes!

but I'm in Texas. :shrug:

[jobycom]

8. Yeah, that's more important than books around here.

Or food or lighting!

[Fleshdancer]

9. lol, sadly I think you just might be right....

I recall spending the entire 4th grade in a portable building with 4 buckets situated around the room to catch the rain while we flipped through books that were probably older than I was at the time. I wasn't hot though. It was 100 degrees outside and my teacher would send home letters filled with misspellings and poor grammar but I was NOT hot dammit!

:rofl: :cry:

on edit: I didn't learn division until I moved schools...in 6th grade. :scared:

[reyd reid reed]

2. Nope.

Kids start back on Thursday, too. At least it's supposed to be cooler this week. Tuesday (I think it's Tuesday), the high's only s'posed to be in the 60s.

Pot roast!!!

[Kajsa]

3. Some of the schools do, but

many of the campuses have classrooms
without A/C. This is after they
remodeled them!

Go Figure!

[Nicole]

4. Yes

School starts here tomorrow in Oklahoma. The temps will be in the 100°'s all week according to the forecast.

[haf216]

5. I live in sourthen Louisiana

they have to have it or the kid would be dead. LOL

[SacredCow]

37. Same here....

But I do recall that the AC in my high school was very unreliable.

[LeftyMom]

6. It's a rare building here that doesn't. One very old high school has some

rooms that either don't have AC or don't have enough to do any good, but that's the only place I know of in the area that doesn't.

[njdemocrat106]

7. For the most part, no

I went through my entire K-12 career without having a class with A/C here in N.J, and it does get pretty hot here around May to the beginning of September. (For the record, I went to public school from K-2, parochial from 3-8, and back to public for 9-12). There are 2 high schools, though, in my town, the old one without A/C and the newer one with A/C. Of course, I went to the older one.

[NMMNG]

10. Yes

And they'll cancel school for the day if it's hot and the AC is out of order.

[Nicole]

13. They do that here too

No AC, no school on the really hot days.

Since we seldom need snow days it balances out.

[NMMNG]

18. They're rather outrageous around here

They'll delay school two hours for fog. Classes will be canceled sometimes for as little as an inch or two of snow, and if there's ice at 4am then you can bet they'll be canceled--maybe for two days.


I grew up in New England. If they had the same policies we wouldn't have had classes for most of November-March.

[pstokely]

19. what area is this?

In Missouri, we have both short days for heat and snow days.

[NMMNG]

20. MD

People don't know how to drive in snow down here, overall, either.

[hedgehog]

31. To be fair- no one can stop on ice; not even 4 wheel drive.

The real problem is not that people can't drive in the snow. The real problem is that in a lot of places, people won't pay the taxes needed to ensure that the roads are maintained. A garbage truck is not a proper snowplow/sander. Oswego County has a lovely fleet of Oshkosh plows. I drove to work for six years from Oswego COunty to Syracuse in a Chevette and never got stuck. The only day I missed work because of the weather, the snow was falling at such a high rate I literally could not see through the windshield.

[Nicole]

21. They are here too

but to be fair, since we seldom get any of those things, no one knows how to drive in it. :rofl:

Except for ice, we do get that here & it's usually bad when we get it.

[trackfan]

11. I think they do now, but they sure as (*&^*&$&^%*$^& didn't when I went.

[pstokely]

12. did you start after Labor Day?

Most schools (at least around here) start before Labor Day and need AC.

[trackfan]

39. Yeah - it was usually mid-September

But, in Los Angeles, that's often the hottest time of the year.

[wickerwoman]

14. In the hallways but not in the classroooms. WTF?

Where do they think we spend most of our time?

[Broken_Hero]

15. yep, they sure do...:) nt

[pstokely]

17. Anything above 80 degrees is hot to someone where it never gets above 80

[Broken_Hero]

22. of course

I'm from Alaska, you are preaching to the choir here...:) I can't stand anything over 75 to be honest....and lately, SW Missouri has been over 90 for a while now...its horrible...about ten days of 100 degree plus weather...enough to make me sick...:silly:

[pstokely]

16. Before the schools had AC, we got out early on hot days.

Some years we had no snow days but one year we had over 5.

[Jamastiene]

23. Some do and some do not.

My junior high didn't. The place reeked with all those adolescent hormones and heat mixing. I don't miss junior high school.

[pstokely]

24. how many years ago was this?

Schools in NC have been starting in early August for the past few years.

[Jamastiene]

25. I went to junior high between

1982-1985, but it was only 3 or 4 years ago that they quit using Rockingham Junior High and tore the place down. If I am not mistaken, the school right next to it, L.J. Bell Elementary School is as old as that, so may not have A/C either. I'm not 100% sure on that one. There are several others in town that are even older. Out of the 4 junior highs, none had A/C when I was in school.

Back when I went to junior high, we started in late August but experienced 90 degree days as late as early November at times. It was horrendous in there when the temperature got over 85 or so.

[femmocrat]

26. Nope. We just sweat.

I'm in s.w. PA and it really gets humid. I have been stocking up on sleeveless tops and have fans for my classrooms. We used to be allowed to keep a little fridge in the classroom, but they banned them to cut the electricity bills. As if those little fridges used that much electricity....hell, I would pay my share of the bill to have ice and cold water in my classroom. Another example of the brilliance of our administrators.

[pstokely]

28. Do you start in August?

[pstokely]

29. Do you start in August?

Do they release early on hot days?

[femmocrat]

44. Yes, we start in Aug.

Teachers go back on Weds, the 23rd. The students start on Monday, the 28th. No... we don't get out for the heat! And you can always count on hot weather the first and last several weeks of the school year!

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. A lot of them do now.

However, the only school with AC that I ever attended prior to college was my high school. It was built in 1970, and it was "modern" with all the new conveniences. :P Boy, was I glad when I got there! :) I suffered through two years of dorm living in college with no AC, and that was hell. I was grateful when I moved off campus to an apartment and had a choice of AC or no AC. :P It's been AC ever since! :woohoo:

[MiniMandaRuth]

30. No, dammit. And they don't have heating, either.

So, really cold in the winter. It got so cold in our Language Arts class once that I could almost see my damn breathe. And, in the summer, it's sweltering.

I hate my school system. But most of you already knew that. Hopefully my highschool will be better.

[femmocrat]

45. Sounds like our district!

They cut the heat back to save money... only the buildings are either too hot or too cold. No wonder our children isn't learning! LOL

[datasuspect]

32. we lived in st. pete fla in 78 and 79

i was in 5th grade then, the school had no a.c.

[noonwitch]

33. It depends on the age of the building

The really old elementary school buildings in Detroit don't have a/c. Most of the high schools do.

When I was a kid, out elementary school did not have it. Our middle and high schools did. The HS was a fairly new building when I went there-it was less than 10 years old.

We didn't really need it so much then. It didn't get hot in Michigan until after school was out. Now, kids start school earlier and finish later, so it's warmer when they are in school.

[Guy Fawkes]

34. No, but they want them.

The voting public keeps voting not to give the schools any money- they want/need AC, new classrooms, new labs, new equipment and in some cases new roofs. One of the elementary schools has classes held in a trailer home they added to the school- because they don't have any money to build real new classrooms.

[hedgehog]

35. Does air conditioning that re-circulates diesel fumes and mold count?

The new Junior High was poorly designed and built. One point of pride was the sealed building with perfect interior climate control. However, the intake for the entire building was located next to where the buses idle. The walls were built in such a way that mold thrived between the walls. That may have been a result of building the school in a swamp as well. As each one of my kids went through two years of junior high, I could count on aggravated allergy and asthma symptoms. They finally fixed things before my youngest entered, and she wasn't sick a day.

[supernova]

36. Yep, Have had it since the early 70s here in NC

Otherwise, it gets too hot to concentrate for teachers and students.

[Momgonepostal]

38. Most do, I think a few older schools still do not

Many schools here got AC within the past 10 years. Sometimes May/June and September can be very hot. I feel for the poor kids who have to try to learn and think in those stuffy classrooms.

[Throd]

40. I went to the only high school in the district that didn't

I believe it was built in 1932.

It was hellish when it was in the high 90's to low 100's

[Arugula Latte]

41. Nope.

But, then, lots of people here in Portland (including us) don't have AC.

[Roon]

42. When I was growing up our schools didn't have AC

in Littleton Colorado. Of course, back then we didn't start school until after labor day.

[citizen snips]

43. Yes

But they blast the AC at my school so it is always freezing.

[SmokingJacket]

46. Nope, in upstate NY

There are only a few days that get uncomfortable at the end of June. I hope my local schools don't install a huge system for just a few hot days.