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2006-05-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Award-winning, energy-saving school closed due to insufficient A/C, too hot for students

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-05-31 03:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Geez, I seem to remember sitting in classes of (gasp!) un-air conditioned schools on some pretty hot days this time of the year (90+ degrees). The teachers just opened the windows (ACK! Dust and Pollutants!) and used a couple of fans (NOT finger-safe).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2006-05-31 10:49|| 2006-05-31 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 You had fans? We had to blow on each other to cool off. And somehow I always got Poopy Breath Pete :((.

And you could open the windows! Geeze... that would have been the lap of luxuery for us!

Kids now days... don't know how lucky they are.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-31 10:59|| 2006-05-31 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Undersize your heating and cooling systems by 20% and get an energy conservation award -- great deal, until it gets hot or cold outside. That single central unit approach reduces conplications too -- until that single unit fails. Brilliant.

Posted by Darrell 2006-05-31 11:02|| 2006-05-31 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Here in South Texas our students would probably kill for a 90 degree day. Open a window and turn on a fan.....

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-31 11:24|| 2006-05-31 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Well at least you had windows. When I was growing up all we had to look forward to was the no-cone man. Who sold sugar water chilled to 54 F. After a long day of picking kitty fluff it was glorious. Course carrying it around in a cupped hand was tricky.

Posted by 6 2006-05-31 13:16|| 2006-05-31 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, the hot-as-hell popping asphalt bubbles with yer toes version of "I walked 4 miles to school through the snow, barefoot... uphill both ways..." gig. Verrrrry good. :)

Posted by Chang Ominesing2659 2006-05-31 13:20|| 2006-05-31 13:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I know, I know.....and you were THANKFUL.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-31 13:26|| 2006-05-31 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Darn Straight!!!

(schoolchildren couldn't say 'damn' in those days....)

Posted by Mullah Richard 2006-05-31 13:56|| 2006-05-31 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 we had to huddle around the flatulent kid just to get a breeze....you guys had it easy

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-31 13:57|| 2006-05-31 13:57|| Front Page Top

#10 That's it. I'm outta here........

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Posted by Mullah Richard 2006-05-31 14:06|| 2006-05-31 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Is it too hot because of Global Warming? Back in my day we had global cooling, now that was rough. New ice age, bundled in dead polar bear skins we had to kill with our bare hands! Damn Bush and Haliburton for ruining the good ol' days.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-05-31 15:10|| 2006-05-31 15:10|| Front Page Top

#12 we lived too far to walk so we rode the School Bus, #29. Hot as beejeeburs in September, October, March, April, and May. Pretty danged cold in January. It was a coal-fired school bus and we all had to take turns shoveling coal into the firebox. THAT'S hot work.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-05-31 15:31|| 2006-05-31 15:31|| Front Page Top

#13 The hot days at my school where offset by the water that I had to swim through uphill both ways.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-31 16:06|| 2006-05-31 16:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Wow--this school has surpassed all expectations! Its energy savings now are 100%!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2006-05-31 16:20|| 2006-05-31 16:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Seriously, guys, a lot of the modern schools in this part of the country don't have windows to open. They look like bunkers.

Posted by Phil 2006-05-31 17:32|| 2006-05-31 17:32|| Front Page Top

#16 You built schools in the 70's?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-31 17:43|| 2006-05-31 17:43|| Front Page Top

#17 Seriously, I got in big trouble one time in grade school, the afternoon sun was coming in the windows and blinding me, so I got up and pulled the shade down.
You'd have thought I shot the teacher for all the ruckus, it turned out that the principal had an order that all window shades had to be the same all across the side of the school facing the street, (To make the school look good from the street)
I asked "Why not just pull the shades all down?"
Big mistake, how dare I "talk back." (Strike Two)

After my father heard about this, I didn't stay in that school any longer, got sent to a far better school about a week later.
I pity those "Sheep" who didn't speak up, I escaped Public School due to my father realizing just how incompetent they really were.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-05-31 21:47|| 2006-05-31 21:47|| Front Page Top

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