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I heard that school was cancelled because the A/C was on the fritz. Huh?
When did A/C start in schools? Shux, I went to a high falutin' Catholic high school whose tuition my parents couldn't afford -- but they sacrificed and managed somehow -- and it didn't have A/C. Same with my college even in summer session.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that my edification began in 1949 (kindergarten) to June 1966 ) college graduation) when even most middle class residences didn't have A/C.
I heard that school was cancelled because the A/C was on the fritz. Huh?
When did A/C start in schools? Shux, I went to a high falutin' Catholic high school whose tuition my parents couldn't afford -- but they sacrificed and managed somehow -- and it didn't have A/C. Same with my college even in summer session.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that my edification began in 1949 (kindergarten) to June 1966 ) college graduation) when even most middle class residences didn't have A/C.
Guess I'm behind the times.
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Originally Posted by Pitt Chick
I would think they went in gradually over time.
It's not like they all got AC the same year!
And many schools in MD, where the OP lives, still don't have A/C. This in an era when school is starting earlier in August and ending later in June across the State.
The only time I went to an air-conditioned school was '71-'72 school year when I went to the newly-opened Lindale Junior High School (now North County High School) in Ferndale for 9th grade.
The air-conditioning was nice, but the really great thing about going to a new school was that all of the gym and lab equipment hadn't had a chance to get broken or stolen.
I heard that school was cancelled because the A/C was on the fritz. Huh?
When did A/C start in schools? Shux, I went to a high falutin' Catholic high school whose tuition my parents couldn't afford -- but they sacrificed and managed somehow -- and it didn't have A/C. Same with my college even in summer session.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that my edification began in 1949 (kindergarten) to June 1966 ) college graduation) when even most middle class residences didn't have A/C.
Guess I'm behind the times.
Yep, these durn schools are getting high falutin these days. My kids' school growing up even had central heat.
Seriously, I doubt you could find a school built in the last 25 years that didn't have central A/C.
A small school my son taught at several years ago has been working at putting in A/C. Their school was built in the 60's & 70's. This is actually a really big deal for them as they're pretty strapped for money.
I think it's worse actually with newer buildings when their HVAC is broken because they were built without any intentions of cross ventilation and some windows only open in emergencies. We have a newish building in our school district that had a whole interior hall with no windows in the rooms. It seems very claustrophobic. Our schools got a/c over time and the last one to get it was done about five years ago.
The bad part about going to a new school was that for the first month we couldn't use the shops because they workers were still in the process of wrapping all of the pipes with asbestos. That area wasn't sealed off or anything like that, we just weren't allowed to walk down that hall.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that my edification began in 1949 (kindergarten) to June 1966 ) college graduation) when even most middle class residences didn't have A/C.
Y'think?
It's like anything else.
Newer construction typically has AC. Vintage construction doesn't, necessarily (depending on the particular vintage, obviously), but may or may not have been retrofitted at some point, depending on the financials of the district.
I went to elementary and high school in the 80s and 90s, and attended mostly in early 1900s construction brick buildings that had radiator heat and no AC ductwork. They never got retrofitted. So even though some new construction at the time was outfitted with AC, we didn't have it. In the early 2000s, my HS was torn down and a new one built, and the new one was designed with AC. My elementary school had an addition put on in the same era, the newer part of the building has AC.
Stores, churches and cars didn't used to have it either. I don't hear anyone complaining that they do now.
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