Posted on 09/03/2013 7:49:26 AM PDT by 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."
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I sense some sarcasm...
They have the highest per pupil spending in the state.
(IIRC, around $18k/per)
And only half graduate...hellofajob, Dooer!
Good thing the pioneers had A/C or there wouldn’t be a Minnesota today!
Actually now that I think about it I remember that episode where all the A/Cs broke down in Walnut Grove and Pa Ingalls had to drive the wagon all the way to Mankato to get freon to recharge his system because Olsen was profiteering!
I lived in the south in the mid seventies. Our elementary school had A/C, but the middle school didn’t. If the temp got too high they sent us all home.
I went to elite private schools in the Philippines (Catholic). The sort of school that in this country would be favored by the ‘1%’. No air conditioning back then, and that place was normally in the 90’s with 100% humidity all year.
“They have the highest per pupil spending in the state.
(IIRC, around $18k/per)
And only half graduate...hellofajob, Dooer!
I bet they have wonderful self esteem too
The sun is racist.
When I went to public schools we had things called WINDOWS and BOX FANS only. We had temps in the 100’s back then too!
“Back in the ‘60s, our teachers would open windows”
I suggest you get out your old photos back then and compare them with the kids today.
What you will see is that today’s kid is humongous compared with the 60’s kid.
The huge kids will generate more heat and radiate less (heat is generated by volume or 3 dimensions, it is radiated by surface area or 2 dimensions).
What needs to happen is massive dieting on the kids.
Up here it was more likely that school would be cancelled due to the cold but most often due to snow.
Minnesota gets more cold weather than any place I’ve ever visited.
Boo Hoo.....
What did the world do before air conditioning?
None of my elementry schools had A/C and it gets pretty toasty in S.E. Washington.
(teachers tried to discourage us from folding paper into fans, telling us the action of waving our hands would just make us hotter.....)
It does go to the schools. And by clever maneuvering they take that same amount they give in Lotto money out of the school budget. So no net gain.
My eighth grade homeroom was never less than a steamy 82 degrees the entire year. The room next door never broke 58 during the winter months. What else do you expect from gubbermint union employees?
We had to walk five miles up hill to school, in blinding snow. We had to walk ten miles back home, in,our bare feet. Quit yer bitchin and do yer homework.
I’m just not feeling any sympathy. None of my schools in MS were airconditioned. We started school the Friday before Labor Day and it would easily be in the 90’s if not 100’s occasionally for another 2 or 3 weeks. Ditto in the late spring before we had summer break.
Just not feeling the sympathy here.
This kind of enabling attitude and these policies that give people an entitled attitude to their core damage our communities way more than any President could no matter how hard he or she was actually trying.
Well, schools are generally closed in the summer, so central air is a big waste of taxpayer money. Deal with it.
Houston is famous for it’s humid summer heat.
Advanced Houston Schools being built in the early/mid 1960s were still being built without air conditioning.
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