School heat days - min days (Corona, La Mesa: homes, movies, elementary school)

[Astrid Racing Greene]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Why can't they just call the ball the night before? How do they expect the kids to get home when they call a heat day? Is this because they'll lose federal funds without having rear ends in seats for a few hours? Just total chaos when they pull this.

I gotta say I'm blown awa by these "heat days" being a thing still! I grew up in Solano country, about forty five minutes west of Sacramento. A ninety degree day in August is what we call "the first day of school."

I kinda get in in areas like National City and other places that may not always have air conditioning, but in areas like Coronado and La Jolla whee the kids may spend all of ninety seconds of the day in heat as Mom drops they off or picks them up in her 5 Series? I know those schools are well air conditioned! LOL

[Astrid Racing Greene]

Originally Posted by msgsing

My cousin reports that yesterday it was 106 in Saratoga, 99 in San Francisco and some parts of Sonoma county hit 110. Is it global warming descending on us?

Damn straight it is

I'm from Solano County originally. I'm my particular city, we would bundle up in wind breakers and sweatshirts if we drove any further west than Vallejo. People start going topless in SF when it gets above seventy. Triple digit temperatures are something I've never seen in San Francisco in my lifetime.

[LaJollaEast]

La Jolla public schools do not have air conditioning. My kids went through all La Jolla public schools and we never had a minimum day due to heat (last kid graduated high school in 2012).

I grew up in Riverside and we had many days well over 100 degrees in September and no air conditioning in our classrooms. We never got to go home early!

[NYSD1995]

when I was a kid we walked uphill to school, both ways!

[citizensadvocate]

Just curious who or what kept most SoCal school districts at least in San Diego, Orange County, and LA county from embracing early start trends until at least a decade later than most districts in NorCal? Apparently only recently did they embrace this early start trend to put more of the school year ahead of the standardlized tests and AP exams as well as move the semester to end before Christmas. Most NorCal districts had been during this many years ago. Is it due to a strong tourism lobby down in SoCal. Whatever the case i always find them lucky during the 2000s that most districts down south still started after Labor Day while districts in the Bay Area and Central Valley were already starting in mid August.

Of course prior to 1999 no one started before Labor Day anywhere in the state.

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by RosieSD

It was 97 in Portland Oregon yesterday.

But, meanwhile, back East:

Chilly Temperatures Engulf Eastern, Southern U.S.

Yup... whopping 62 degrees today in New York City

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

when I was a kid we walked uphill to school, both ways!

In the snow

[bloom]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

In the snow

~2 feet of it in the northeast in the blizzard of 1978 --> true

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

In the snow

Ten feet of snow. We had to tunnel through.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by oddstray

Ten feet of snow. We had to tunnel through.

I dug out about 10 elderly neighbors in that one. We were without power most of the summer (in the Country).