Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Air Conditioning in Schools

Do the schools in your district have air conditioning? Our schools don't. How do people expect students to concentrate and enjoy school when you can't think about anything except for the heat? Students seem to get very cranky when it is hot outside. Also, other schools around us have air conditioning, even our grade school does! If our schools got air conditioning, students might follow the dress code and wear appropriate clothes. Another thing air conditioning would change is that we wouldn't have to get out of school early because of the heat. Our school has heat, so why not air conditioning? One last thing that proves that we should have air conditioning is that all of Payson's residents pay taxes to our school and they should go to air conditioning. Since we pay taxes they might as well benefit the teachers and students.

-Courtney
-Danielle
-Laaken

2 comments:

Pamela Pritchard said...

Great Article, I agree with you 100% because I am at a school district in Illinois that just put in window air-conditioners. It is quite noisy but we enjoy the cool air.

Your post brought back a lot of memories of years of not have air conditioning.

:0)

PaulPam2

Anonymous said...

I had air conditioning in school, but it was in south Florida, so without it, we would only have had school for a couple of months out of the year.

I remember my earlier days in Palatine, though, and when it was hot, it was REALLY hot, and still. There was no breeze. Now, I can't speak for how the school district spends the tax dollars, but I'm sure it's not squandering them.

Have any of you considered presenting something to the school board requesting air conditioning? It would need to be well researched and supported. There would need to be a cost-benefit analysis, as well.

Good luck.