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The high school I went to was built in 1957. It is still in use. It does not have AC nor does it need AC. We live on the coast and the average temp is 70 degrees all year. Hotter months are August thru October where it cools down. Still, I don't think the need was ever there.
The high school I went to was built in 1957. It is still in use. It does not have AC nor does it need AC. We live on the coast and the average temp is 70 degrees all year. Hotter months are August thru October where it cools down. Still, I don't think the need was ever there.
This is the problem. No A/C is needed, except during the heat wave months of early fall, so the schools don't spend the money. What they don't realize is that what used to be just 3 weeks of heat wave has now extended to about 6 weeks. In coming years as the climate warms, they'll need A/C.
Mine didn't. My daughter's doesn't. My son's school has air conditioning in the recently built wing. Daughter had a few half days in September during heatwave. Some people thought it was unnecessary, but I'm ok with it. It's hotter now and the air quality isn't anywhere near as good as it was when I was in high school.
This is the problem. No A/C is needed, except during the heat wave months of early fall, so the schools don't spend the money. What they don't realize is that what used to be just 3 weeks of heat wave has now extended to about 6 weeks. In coming years as the climate warms, they'll need A/C.
I don't know. I have lived here for 50 years and the climate has cycled back and forth over those years. Some years we have had less hear waves and some we have had more. A heat wave here is anything over 80 degrees I would think. A couple years ago we had some 100 degree days. This past year has not been too bad.
2010 in Charleston, SC: Yes. Every room had it. Even the trailers. It'd get hot in the gym when you packed 1500 kids in along with teachers/administrators for a pep rally, but we had it.
Basically the entire county school system (and probably every school in the state except for a few in the "Corridor of Shame" along I-95/US 301) has it. Ours was controlled remotely from the district offices. Previously it used to be controlled from another city.
I voted "only in some of the rooms". The rooms with no windows had air conditioning (and had at least 2 entrances), which was required by law. Not surprisingly, all of the offices had air conditioning, even if they also had windows. But the vast majority of classrooms had windows but no air conditioning. During lunch on hot days, a lot of students, including myself, would go to the library after eating, since the library had air conditioning (but no windows). The hallway outside the library did not have air conditioning, and everybody would look like they were ready to pass out when they would leave the library.
Final exams were in mid-late June, and rarely held in rooms with air conditioning. Finals in the gym were considered desirable, since even though it had no air conditioning, they would set up fans, which would be better than nothing. The building had 3 cafeterias, which although none of them had air conditioning, they were on the 1st floor, and they were near administration offices and guidance offices that had air conditioning, so that combination made them not quite as bad for finals as a regular classroom on an upper floor.
Even though I frequently had detention in middle school, I never once had detention in high school. The detention room was a room on the 1st floor with no windows, which means, ironically, it had air conditioning. So, ironically, I wonder if maybe lunch detention wouldn't have been such a bad place on a hot day.
Did the school have central air conditioning or stand-alone units? It seems strange that there would be central air services a bunch of dispersed rooms and not all the rooms.
I never remember the lack of air conditioning being much of an issue when I was in school. I think we just weren't used to it as people are now. I had no air conditioning at home, either (except in my parents' bedroom) and no air conditioning in the car. Maybe that's why it wasn't a big deal.
And a detention room with no windows? That must have sucked. I always tried to sit in the window row when I was in detention because being able to look out the window made the time spend there more bearable.
I went to high school overseas in a relatively warm country. The high school did not have heating or air-conditioning.
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