donna723
Well-Known Member
When I was a kid most people didn't have air conditioning in their houses, much less in the schools. No AC in the cars either. I guess we were just used to it. I sure couldn't do without it now!
I grew up in St.Louis, one of the hottest places on the face of the earth. And I don't remember ever being uncomfortably hot in school. All the classrooms had big windows that they opened up and transoms over the doors so a little breeze came in. We even played outside on playgrounds paved with black asphalt and it didn't bother us. The difference was that we started school in September after it had started to cool off a bit, not right in the middle of the hottest part of the summer! And we got out of school in the spring before it started to get really hot. It seems like schools start earlier and earlier every year, even just since my kids were in school. Some here started in the beginning of August. Give it another year or so and they will be going back to school right after the Fourth of July. Makes no sense to me. And it costs the school systems a fortune to air condition all those schools for the better part of August, usually the hottest time of the year.
I grew up in St.Louis, one of the hottest places on the face of the earth. And I don't remember ever being uncomfortably hot in school. All the classrooms had big windows that they opened up and transoms over the doors so a little breeze came in. We even played outside on playgrounds paved with black asphalt and it didn't bother us. The difference was that we started school in September after it had started to cool off a bit, not right in the middle of the hottest part of the summer! And we got out of school in the spring before it started to get really hot. It seems like schools start earlier and earlier every year, even just since my kids were in school. Some here started in the beginning of August. Give it another year or so and they will be going back to school right after the Fourth of July. Makes no sense to me. And it costs the school systems a fortune to air condition all those schools for the better part of August, usually the hottest time of the year.