Minnesota teachers, students cry discrimination over 'intolerable' heat in classrooms

FOX News ^ | August 27, 2013 | Shelby Capacio

[kevcol]

"I can't believe that 50 years after the March on Washington, we're still fighting for equity in our schools," Anthony Newby, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, tells MyFoxTwinCities.com. "We know that in more affluent districts, parents aren't tolerating this. In Minneapolis, where a majority of students are children of color, our kids don't get climate controlled classrooms. It's outrageous."

[kevcol]

Unions, Teachers, Community Organizers, Race Hustlers, Income-envy...so they closed the schools for a few days and then?

MN schools close because of heat, leave parents high and dry

Parents start complaining about lack off child care/taking off work and the fact that "I really don't recall school being called off from the heat, you just dealt with it you know," Nadra said.

[Alex Murphy]

Do any of the teachers drive Jaguars?

[cripplecreek]

We didn’t have A/C when I was in school in the early 80s and our school only had 3 black students.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Quite obviously, the property taxes in Minneapolis are not high enough.

[ElkGroveDan]

With winter coming, can this really be such a bad thing?

[oldbrowser]

Keeping voting for the democrats and you will keep getting what you’ve been getting.

[IbJensen]

Any state that would elect a certifiable imbecile like Al Franken for their senator deserves whatever disaster comes their way.

(This coming from another dummy who has a Democrat dummy and a RINO in the Senate.)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Back in the ‘60s, our teachers would open windows...

[Red Badger]

I went to school in Mississippi in the early 60’s.
We didn’t have AC or black students..............;^)

[DManA]

$23,000 per student and “our kids don’t get climate controlled classrooms.” This will be intolerable come January.

[txrefugee]

I taught school in Central Texas in the early nineties when the thermometer behind my desk registered 95-100 degrees at 3:00 PM on many days in late August and the end of May. Guess we were tougher back then.

[kevcol]

Anthony Newby, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change:

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and

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[C210N]

The heat referred to is over their own making... Social experiments and NEA leftism turning public schools into hell.

[C210N]

The heat referred to is over their own making... Social experiments and NEA leftism turning public schools into hell.

[Mr Rogers]

Open windows...yep, in the 60s, my teachers did that in both Taiwan & Alabama, generally considers warmer locations than Minnesota. Guess global warming is racist, and affects minorities the most.

[Tigerized]

Let’s see. The parents and teachers could pass the hat and acquire some portable A/C units, fans, or swamp coolers on wheels, or get some window units installed.

Or, they can sit on their butts and complain, and make the weather a race issue instead.

Gee. Which will it be?

[shelterguy]

It’s 55 degrees here in Minneapolis today. They will survive.

[21twelve]

“In Minneapolis, where a majority of students are children of color, our kids don’t get climate controlled classrooms.”

Maybe the Teacher’s Union should start a “dress weather-smart” campaign, and perhaps “the children of color” will take off their polyester/down parkas with the fake fur-lined hoods when they enter the classroom.

[FES0844]

Someone should find out where all the LOTTO money is going.
Wasn’t it supposed to go to our schools?????

[bgill]

Good grief. The forcast today is 81 degrees. That is NOT hot. Bunch of whiney pansies. It’s going to be the 40-something day of three digit temps here. Back in the day, we had classroom windows that opened and no a/c. Surely, someone in the school is smart enough to open a window. If their climate controlled classroom doesn’t have windows that can be opened then take it up with the idiotic school board.