Show me the a/c!
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
July 6, 2012 6:43pm CST
As many posters from the USA know much of the USA is in a drought and suffering from awful heat. My girls have summer school right now in the mornings til noon. Well you know when I drop them off it's been 86 degree's at 8 am!!!! Well today my 6yr old said she wasn't feeling well and she had a visit to the health room for a ice cold bottle of water aside from the one I sent her with. She said she wasn't feeling well and her stomach hurt. Well it's no surprise! The school really doesn't have any a/c on other than in the library. They have the lights turned out in the halls and class rooms and large fans blowing everywhere. I would think that schools could stop being so cheap and run the a/c or just plain cancel classes for the safety of the staff and children. I'm about tempted to complain to the summer school district office if they couldn't run a/c to cancel class in such extreme conditions.
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@GardenGerty (169585)
• United States
7 Jul 12
Although I lived in a southern state and we never had a/c when I was a child and were lucky if we got fans in the classroom, things have changed. Most families are used to some a/c, and since our bodies are accustomed to it we feel ill without it. I do know that our school district has an agreement with our Board of Public Utilities to cut use of a/c at a certain time daily to save money. Several factories have the same agreement. If a school is going to have children attending classes though they need to have cooling for the hours of classes. Children get distracted by their own discomfort and do not really learn under those conditions.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
7 Jul 12
I would complain. Schools use our tax dollars to operate and their supposed use it for the children. In this heat, air conditioning can be critical inside a large building. The bigger the building the more heat it retains.
If they can't afford it, I would suggest they cut out some programs or cut back on staff so the children don't have to suffer
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@Lauraleigh99 (4718)
• United States
7 Jul 12
wow in this heat that is crazy! I would complain because that is people's lives at stake. I mean with all the kids and bodies in the school it has to be warm in there. Why only the library lol. Is that where the teachers hang out all day!
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
9 Jul 12
It is terrible that they are not running the AC. The safety of the children and the staff is at stake. I think I would complain about it to the school board. I would be really worried about the safety of the children.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
10 Jul 12
I don't know if this is a the case in the area that you live in, but here, there are actually only three school buildings that are used for summer school. I don't think that running air conditioning in those three schools would be too much because I know that the temperature inside our house would be well over 100 degrees if we weren't running the air conditioner. Add that to the fact that schools aren't as open as a home and you know that the temperature would skyrocket.
@asyria51 (2861)
• United States
20 Jul 12
I would love if my building even had a/c. Last August, when the school year started it was just as hot, or close to, what it is now. Our building would top out at close to 100 in the classrooms. Luckily, we have a new school building being built in the next two years, so only two more years of extremes.
@MoonGypsy (4605)
• United States
7 Jul 12
i am lucky that i don't live in an area that has so much heat. also, my kids home school. i am so glad for that. heat like that with no a/c can result in serious injury to young people and the elderly. just cause your kid has to go to summer school, doesn't mean that she has to put up with those kinds of conditions. i say you should take this to a higher authority.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
7 Jul 12
That's INSANE!! Your daughter got sick from the heat, they should turn the A/C on. I wonder how many other kids sicken that way and go home without telling anyone? I would call and demand that it be turned on, tell them about the incident and if necessary pull her out of summer school. There has to be some sort of compromise. They can close the vents to the rooms not being used, can't they? Or if the rooms have individual thermostats turn them all to 95° or something. It's cruel to make kids suffer that way. 
