Does your Local school district have AC in the classrooms?

[meetkitty123]

Does your local school district have Ac? What does your school do if you dont have AC and the temperature goes up to 90f or 32.22C or higher? Out of curiosity what country are you in and what is your local area environment like?
I'm in the North East of the USA. We can see temps higher than 90/32.22. Our school district where I work does not have AC. They call half day if it gets near 90.
In My kids school district the newer schools have AC and the olders don't. For the building that dont they go home early.

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Sweating 🥵 time... Though honestly I love this weather 🥰
Picture of the temperature
https://ibb.co/Ky1n80j

[Bluemax]

I taught at a private school. We had no AC. Class would continue if the weather were hellish. However, given our proximity to the ocean (my class literally overlooked it... you could see it from the playground) temperatures very seldom rose above 85. When I was a boy, I was educated very close to where I teach. The temperature seldom rose above 90, but on occasion it did. No AC in the class. No half days even if the temperature was above 90.

[meetkitty123]

I do not believe we were not sent home either when I was a kid
Except the end of the year were mostly half days 🤷
In Puerto Rico we were sometimes sent home if we had no electricity but we hardly were ever sent home if we had no water go figure it never made much sense to me.
As I was walking through a school building today I noticed the basement was manageable but by the 2nd floor (main floor) it was hard to breathe and the third felt dreadful... Passing out dreadful... That was awful. I believe they made the correct choice today.

[Bluemax]

Did you lose power a lot in class? What about water. I have lost power a few times in my class, almost always during storms. But we have big windows so it wasn't a problem.

[meetkitty123]

Yes in my small town In Puerto Rico we lost power a lot and water. It was a guessing game if they would send us home or not. After hurricane George we were forced to go to school with no running water or electricity for months on end! It was nasty! The bathrooms were deplorable. Couldnt flush and we had no toilet paper... (little did I know at that time... The school hardly supplied toilet paper) add to that mess how hot it was every day! I hated the powder milk they gave us which we were to mixed with water from cans sent to us from Budweiser. I just drank the hot water. Puerto Rico made me appreciate the schools in the US a lot more!

[ohshee]

Well I don't have any kids to go to grade school anymore but this is a very good question and every parent should be on top of this and find out if their classrooms to have air conditioning and if they do not you need to go to the principal's office or the head of the school district and get that taken care of for those kids

[ohshee]

But when your kid goes to school you're trying to to keep them there to learn something and when you were hot and miserable and makes you sleepy and tired and they're not going to learn anything your mind is someplace else

[meetkitty123]

Its hard to manage and the children get restless

[ohshee]

Oh yes for sure a keyboard to get Restless they're not happy they're irritated as matter fact because they feel miserable they can't concentrate and that's just wrong in order to teach kids they need a good breakfast and good lunch they need to be in a good atmosphere environment they need to be in that moment

[OlderAndWiser]

I live in northeast Florida. When I was a kid in school, a few of the newer schools had A/C but most school did not. I attended schools that did not have A/C through elementary and junior high school and we NEVER went home early because of the heat. NEVER. And I don't recall any students every dying or even getting ill as a result of the heat.

In high school, I attended one of the newer schools and we had A/C.

[MrOracle]

One of the elementary schools I went to had AC, but that was only for a year and a half. All the rest were built in the 30s and so only a couple of "portable" buildings (i. e., permanent trailers) had AC. We had to suffer in the spring and fall with 90-100F days.

[JustinTheGreat]

They recently tore the highschool I went to down and built a brand new one. The old one definitely didn’t have any acs in it, maybe certain classes did but majority didn’t. I have no idea what the new school looks like but I hope they added units in every class.
I didn’t have ac in my middle or elementary schools either

[Still-alive]

I'm not sure as i have no kids but probably. we have a pretty good school district where I live

reminds me of this time i first went to high school. literally the first week it was sooo hot that they canceled class for the rest of that week. they had no a/c

[TommyMountainFigure]

I don't know about these days, but back when I was at school? I remember having to take mock exams in -10 degrees fahrenheit as the boiler had packed up.. Nobody ever got sent home years ago.

To this day i still remember not being able to feel my feet.

[WindAtMyBack]

I don't know. They didn't when I was in school. We opened the windows. But most houses didn't have A/C back then either.

I've thought about this before. I've been meaning to ask one of the high school kids around here but I never remember.

[matchrestore]

Not all of the schools, but most do. They're adding it as they renovate. Growing up we didn't have ac in classrooms except music rooms (instruments need climate control) and computer labs.

[IJhonnyI]

Some classes did some didn't the ones that didn't we would've had to go to a computer lab or some shit good times

[CalvinCali199]

It does 😃. The cats would get to hot without it or one of the cars parent would have a open lawsuit due to animal cruelty

[Kaneki05]

England does not have AC one of the backward things about our country. I've been asking the queen to fund it for years lol.

[Jamie05rhs]

I have no clue. I haven't been in school in forever.

[meetkitty123]

And when you were how was it handled?

[Jamie05rhs]

@meetkitty123 I don't even remember.

[meetkitty123]

I just remembered the teachers having fans in the classrooms and sometimes we were given frozen pops that came in those pastic sealed pouches

[Jamie05rhs]

@meetkitty123 Aww; that's cool!

[Lyndsielee666]

I mean it gets to 110 where I live so they kind of have to Lmfao

[Guardian45]

Most elementary schools here don't have AC. In Japan, schools don't have AC or heating, regardless of how far north or south they are! It's considered good for children's constitution, good discipline.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Wow. Some schools in the U. S. don't have A/C... that's crazy to me.

[meetkitty123]

Its true and it is nuts.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

It must be nearly impossible to focus on learning when the brain is frying. 😭

[meetkitty123]

On second or third floors its hard to breathe in basement levels its hot but manageable

[hahahmm]

If you lived in a cold/mild climate why would you? Some places only used to get hot for 1 day to 1 week out of the year, when school was on summer break so there'd be no point spending millions on air conditioning. Climate is changing tho so now some of those places are warm more often.

[Pudsmucker]

Our school districts have air conditioner because they start school mid-august and finish in the end of May. Our temperatures exceed 90°from mid-august to end of mid October.

[jamesgoldman]

Not in the UK at least when I was there

By that temperature they are forced to close

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

The A/C was always shitty and some rooms were cooler than the others

[NathanDavis]

this is Texas, so yes...

even my cats have a little AC outside in their backyard little cat house, lmao

[genericname85]

no. air condition outside of cars and malls is terribly rare where i live.

[Whatever2929292]

you must live in a cold climate or a country that doesn't have a lot

[genericname85]

@Whatever2929292 i live in Germany. We are a wealthy country and summers get up to 36 C or 97 F. But we're more environmentally conscious as a society.

[Whatever2929292]

That is interesting. Where I live unless you live in a cold climate all year long most places have AC. I think even many places in Alaska have AC

[genericname85]

@Whatever2929292 yeah, the USA has the highest co2 carbon footprint per Capita for a reason :D

[Whatever2929292]

Well LOL nobody wants to die of a heat stroke when the world is on fire so...

[Wise4myage]

My High School sure didn't, but I am with you. I love it when its hot.