School starts way too early!

[CajunCrimson]

Now as an administrator I do not get a summer break. IMO year round school and easier tests that are dumbed down for the students - would increase test scores.

FIFY

All silliness aside.....we will never see a reversal of test scores.....because technology does not cure the ills of the school system. No discipline, forcing all students to learn at the same pace, the 3rd generation of under-qualified teachers, and a system that has more non-teaching personnel on the payroll than teachers.....will continue to give us sub-par results.....but we'll keep pumping more funds and more sub-par personnel into the problem.....never getting the fix that is promised.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Lets face it. The population of the southeast united states would be 1/4 of what it is today if it wasn't for Freon.

Replace that with "refrigerant," now that Freon is outlawed...

 

[92tide]

Lets face it. The population of the southeast united states would be 1/4 of what it is today if it wasn't for Freon.

and the tva/rural electrification

 

[Tidewater]

Lets face it. The population of the southeast united states would be 1/4 of what it is today if it wasn't for Freon.

If I won the lottery, I'd buy a place in Buenos Aires and spend every year between April and October there. That way, I'd get two winters each year and no summers.

 

[dayhiker]

I would think it would save government dollars to start later, so that you are not running the AC full blast for a TV least a month.

You know what leaving a building unconditioned through the summer does to it. You did say full blast, though.

 

[92tide]

i still remember when the went through and put ceiling fans in all of the rooms in our schools. it was about 80-81 iirc. they retrofitted everything with window ac units about 83-84.

kids these days dont realize how lucky they have it

 

[alabama mike1]

I have taught in buildings without AC in August, September and even into October and it is MISERABLE!

 

[Al A Bama]

Lets face it. The population of the southeast united states would be 1/4 of what it is today if it wasn't for refrigerant.

How about the Southwest. I'm about ready to move now! I start sweating just thinking about going outside. I'm not sure which one I like the least: the extreme FRIGID COLD of Northern states or the extreme Hades-like HOT weather of the Southwest.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

i still remember when the went through and put ceiling fans in all of the rooms in our schools. it was about 80-81 iirc. they retrofitted everything with window ac units about 83-84.

kids these days dont realize how lucky they have it

My first year of architecture, we had window units. They never worked, they were loud, and during lectures they were off. Then they built the new building. The one problem with the newer building is it is mostly glass and for budget reasons they left off the sunscreens/sun shades. Apparently they all missed the day they taught heat loss and heat gain.

 

[92tide]

My first year of architecture, we had window units. They never worked, they were loud, and during lectures they were off. Then they built the new building. The one problem with the newer building is it is mostly glass and for budget reasons they left off the sunscreens/sun shades. Apparently they all missed the day they taught heat loss and heat gain.

that sucks, was it designed poorly enough so that the windows were south facing?

about 1/3 of the classrooms in the georgia tech arch building have no windows, and the ones that had windows were those old school house type where the windows pivoted in. they were so worried about an open design (i guess for improved collaboration), the classrooms were an afterthought.

one of my biggest beefs with atlanta is that buildings are kept too cold in the summer and too hot in the winter, and that one was not an exception.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

that sucks, was it designed poorly enough so that the windows were south facing?

about 1/3 of the classrooms in the georgia tech arch building have no windows, and the ones that had windows were those old school house type where the windows pivoted in. they were so worried about an open design (i guess for improved collaboration), the classrooms were an afterthought.

one of my biggest beefs with atlanta is that buildings are kept too cold in the summer and too hot in the winter, and that one was not an exception.

yes the building is south facing. the building was designed by a bigtime firm too (Heery International).

and yes the building I work in is freezing. most of my coworkers keep a sweater at work. I wear long sleeve shirts in the summer and short sleeve shirts in the winter. some time the cold can be explained because the space was originally designed for a larger space and later they came back in and added walls. sometimes it was just a total screw up by the mechanical engineers and the project architect.

 

[Bamaro]

School should start right after Labor Day and run as long as needed in the spring to meet attendance requirements.