On Labor Day Weekend, the local school district decided to extend the weekend, take Friday off, and blame it on the heat. The temperature that Friday was 87ºF.
They just sent out an E-mail blaming it on a changing world.
Heat Committee Update
after reviewing the committee’s calendar modification recommendations, I was not comfortable with losing so many instructional days in favor of a later start date. Our time with students is limited and precious. As an educator and superintendent, my top priority is ensuring that our students have high quality instruction in every classroom that affords them the opportunity to be successful in a changing world.
Children won’t know what a real education is.
87F, poor, poor babies. It was 86F in Richmond on 8/30 but schools didn’t start until 9/3 and the temperature was 88F. I won’t even venture to look at temperatures south of here. If I was a cynic I might think that this was an excuse for a 4 day weekend.
Ft. Collins:
Elevation ~5,000 feet.
Average school year high temperatures (Sept – June): 39 to 78 degrees F.
Average summer time high temperatures (mid July): 88 degrees F.
This school district has a “Heat Committee”?
Too many educational bureaucrats with too much time and “Other Peoples Money” to waste.
Average temperature for that date is 81. It was six degrees above average.
I remember in High School, we attended classes one day when it was 100 and another day it was 99 (without air conditioning). No one died. In fact we went out and played baseball after school.
At ASU we had soccer practice at 3 PM in 105 degree weather every day,
I remember many of the schools that I attended were built with high ceilings, and transom windows that allowed heat to escape the classrooms. Of course many of these were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when people were too stupid to properly read thermometers.
“They just sent out an E-mail blaming it on a changing world.
Sounds like another lazy leftard excuse for not doing their job.
I attended the Police Training School in Hong Kong in 1974, in July. The temperature during the day was +30C, dropping to about 26-27C at night. The relative humidity varied between 95% during the day and 90% at night. There was no air conditioning available anywhere.
Our Squad had to be ‘acclimatised’. We did two hours a day on the Drill Square every day dressed only in shorts, long socks, hat and boots. Sunburn was an occupational hazard.
I served for the next 28 years and loved it. Going back next year for the Squad’s 40th Reunion.