Posted on 01/01/2007 6:40:07 PM PST by wintertime
Students and teachers at one DeKalb County school say the freezing temperatures we saw overnight made it awful chilly inside their classrooms. They cant understand why the school system wouldnt turn on the heat.
The school system says no matter how cold it gets, its their practice to turn the heat on in all schools on October 30.
A DeKalb County Schools spokesperson told Channel 2 thats not entirely true. We found out the school district doesnt turn on the heat system-wide until October 30. And once the heat is on for all schools it stays on.
The school system did tell us that principals can petition to have their heat turned on before October 30. But if it warms up, the heat wont be turned off so many principals choose to wait.
If a school can't respond to something as simple as turning on a thermostat, how will it respond to something as complex as illiteracy?
Perhaps it isn't the thermostat that is complex, but the complex union rules that cover the specially assigned "Commrad of Thermostat Control". :-)
Just one more reason to homeschool. At least your child will not freeze from the cold, or bake half to death from too much heat. :)
What ineffectual idiots!
... turn the heat on in all schools on October 30.
Have I entered the twilight zone?
Anecdote: one of the richest men in America (an acquaintence) does not allow his house to be heated. A self-made man, he wants his kids to know what it's like to be deprived of something.
Doesn't really have much to do with the article, of course...
Illinois?
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I'm not seeing the connection 'tween literacy and maintanance or the purpose of posting an article 2 months after it happened.
"AHEM" However, I did notice that the old thermostat had a lip on it around the bottom of the thermostat, so being the creative teacher that I was...I kept a cup of snow in the room and kept feeding it into the thermostat cup. We had a very, very cozy room!
The schools aren't doing enough for global warming education. If enough students believe in Global warming then that will have to make it true :)
Seriously it probably takes a few days to heat up the school. It probably gets too warm if it isn't cold outside. My extremely efficient house takes over 8 hours to heat up in the winter. Set back thermostats and heating and cooling on demand (hourly) are not always the most efficient.
This is interesting and there is no Free Republic rule about posting 2 month old articles.
School districts pay a fortune for teacher salaries, it doesn't surprise me that they can't afford to heat the school buildings.
I bet the school district's administration building is exempt from this rule.
Too bad they don't have a day assigned where they start educating the students system-wide. Dekalb County schools are deplorable. But then so is Dekalb County government.
When I went to school, I walked. Through waist-high snowdrifts. Uphill. Both going to school and going home.
Heat? Oh, please. If we kids shoveled enough coal, maybe they'd burn a few lumps of it in the stove we'd huddle around on days when it got below zero. We never even thought about heat until the teacher's mug of coffee froze.
And did we complain? Of course not. We were grateful for the opportunity...
I agree with the posting. I lived in Ga for several years, never saw it freeze in Oct are get really cold for that matter
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Get a grip. This was in Georgia the third week into October. The heat's been turned on and everyone is fine.
A lot of commercial buildings have similar policies. You can't just switch from AC to heat, and the engineering behind many HVAC systems is based on pre-cooling or pre-warming the air - It's the HVAC equivalent of steering an aircraft carrier: It doesn't turn on a dime. If you might have a cold day, followed by a warm day, you would have to spend money cooling the air you paid to heat the day before.
Incidentally, much of the heat in commercial buildings comes from computers, lights, and bodies - so I doubt it was unbearable. Put a sweater on the kids, and send them to school.
P.S. I'm willing to bet your unheated Georgia classroom is warmer than my heated Wisconsin house. ;)
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Daily Summary for October 25, 2006
Actual - Temperature:
Mean Temperature 44 °F / 6 °C
Max Temperature 55 °F / 12 °C
Min Temperature 32 °F / 0 °C
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