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

FOX News ^ | August 27, 2013 | Shelby Capacio

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"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."

[ontap]

Ask these union teachers if they would be will to forgo their next raise to have AC installed “for the children”!!!

[WKB]

Sometimes I would get in trouble just so I would get to the principal’s office. The only room in the entire school with AC

[Black Agnes]

I was always too afraid to do that. My parents rule was ‘get in trouble at school, get a whippin’ at home’. And my mama could whip. Good.

[Wuli]

my grade schools in southern california did not have air conditioning

windows were opened, shades wer drawn, fans brought in and if very hot and no rain we sat outside on the grass in the shade

now why should there be NO HARDSHIPS EVER??? and why must children be told that if there are then our goals are blocked? or unobtainable??? - how about the life lessons of perserverance, diligence, overcoming obstacles, dedication and “hard” work???

[Married with Children]

I like your screen name.

[ViLaLuz]

They can’t all be having air conditioning or else the Great Lakes will boil over.