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Schools Lower Temperatures to Save Money (Great Job, envirowackos and dems!)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/16/05 | Ben Feller -ap

Posted on 12/16/2005 11:40:33 AM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: mmercier

Actually, our school (in MA) overspent the budget by a million dollars. And turnout in school board elections were usually low so this time the school board said, hey let's ask for more money.

On the ballot were three measures and to vote no, you had to vote no on all three.

First was to increase budget by 1.6 million by raising taxes
Next was 1.2 million
Last was 900K

Turnout was huge. All three measures were crushed. And the school board administrator whose brilliant idea this was got kicked out and was replaced by an unknown.

I have hope.


41 posted on 12/16/2005 12:39:47 PM PST by saveliberty (Stop the McCainity. Vote Conservative.)
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To: savedbygrace
I keep my home's thermostat at 66.

Same here... though I might bump it up a degree every now and then, depending on outside weather conditions.

42 posted on 12/16/2005 12:59:45 PM PST by ken in texas (Can't afford a tagline... please send money.)
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To: NormsRevenge

68 degrees? What's the problem. I keep my house at 65 degrees in the daytime, and 55 at night. Saves lots of money.

I can't sit around in a t-shirt but, gosh, how much trouble is it to put on a real shirt.

I watch the kids walk by my house every morning to go to school. The middle school girls are wearing only very lightweight jackets...even when it's around 0 degrees. I guess a real parka would make them look fat or something.

My advice to kids at this school: It's called a sweater. Look into it.


43 posted on 12/16/2005 12:59:57 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: NormsRevenge
I once taught in a three story school built in 1922. The heat source was in the basement. In the winter, the teacher on the third floor had to open a high window to vent all the excess heat from their classrooms. Otherwise the classrooms became a steamy 90 + degrees by mid-morning.

This is slightly off the subject: My 84 year old mother enjoys cooking out her household staff by insisting that the thermostat be set at 85 degrees summer and winter. Whenever my sister or I are at the house we reset it to a reasonable 72 degrees.

44 posted on 12/16/2005 1:06:25 PM PST by Irish Queen
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To: MineralMan

lol.. I hear ya.

I'm hot blooded myself, I wear shorts and t-shirts or t-tops year round, occasionally with a flannel or jacket if it is really windy or nasty out. I live in the San Jose Bay Area tho too.

I grew up in cold country , Minnesota, attended a country school that occasionally had a oil burning furnace that didn't always function well in the winter.

My wife and family are all Hawaii filips so we have a battle over the thermostat at night,usually set in the low to mid 60s.. I am burning a lot of wood this winter, it helps, and ma-in-law and the cats like it just fine.

I do feel bad for the kids tho, once again , they are asked to pay for the neglect and wanton reckless policies of enviro wackjobs, but what else is new?


45 posted on 12/16/2005 1:07:26 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: savedbygrace
68? I keep my home's thermostat at 66.

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Sissy. I keep mine at 62 to 64. :)

46 posted on 12/16/2005 1:10:40 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GaltMeister; TexasCajun
I remember walking 5 miles in the snow barefooted just to get to school.

Me too, and it was uphill both ways!

Yes, and not only sll that, but since I was under 16, I had to wear Knickerbockers and short sleeves, no gloves, and a propeller beanie, too!

47 posted on 12/16/2005 1:20:23 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Unicorn
air cond.=79
heat=79
Just right.

Only if you habitually just wear underwear...or less.

"I'm melting!"

65 Alive!

Being cool encourages activity to maintian comfort; being warm encourages ennui and napping at the desk. You aren't paid to be comfortable while not producing. Don't like it? Put something on, and get cracking! Hup, hup, hup!

48 posted on 12/16/2005 1:32:52 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Growing up in the 1950's, classroom "room temperature" was considered to be 65 degrees F. No one ever thought to complain. I don't actually recall when the utility companies spread the idea that room temp was 72. Sometime in the 60's I guess.


49 posted on 12/16/2005 5:15:13 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

For seven years, starting in 1950, I attended an old school which had a potbelly coal burning stove in each classroom. It would not be fired up until we arrived at school in the morning. I was in South Carolina but there were still mornings when the temperature was in the teens when we walked into a room that had not been heated all night. We would huddle around the stove until the room warmed up. In the warmer months there was no air conditioning, not even a fan. I went through high school in a building with steam heat which was wonderful in the winter but there was still no way to cool it. There were days in September at the start of the school year when it was in the high nineties and on rare occasions hit 100 with high humidity. All that was just part of life fifty years ago.


50 posted on 12/17/2005 6:31:09 AM PST by RipSawyer (Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)
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To: TexasCajun
I remember walking 5 miles in the snow barefooted just to get to school.

Uphill both ways!!!

51 posted on 12/17/2005 6:36:46 AM PST by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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