[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.

[G Larry]

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.....)

[BykrBayb]

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.

[Black Agnes]

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.

[nucresearch]

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.

[Boogieman]

Well, schools are generally closed in the summer, so central air is a big waste of taxpayer money. Deal with it.

[rusty schucklefurd]

Was in DC in the late 90’s when the temperature and humidity were so high they had to close the schools. It was pretty miserable. What amazed me however was that the schools didn't have air conditioning. With one of the highest money per student ratios in the country, somehow the money was insufficient to pay for air conditioning in the school. I am sure that some pockets got some pretty green linings, however.

[ansel12]

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.

[ontap]

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

[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???

[ViLaLuz]

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