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[quote=Anonymous]This is an issue in many MCPS buildings. I teach in an elementary school and help support different grade levels and am in multiple classrooms each day. I have to wear layers because I need to wear a coat in some rooms while other rooms are stiflingly hot. The HVAC system is centralized so they pick a date to turn on/off the heat and/or AC in the buildings.

Many older buildings have crappy heating/cooling systems. It takes forever for the people to come once the building service manager places a work order and even then it may not be a fixable problem or they have to come back a million times with different parts before it improves. I’m currently eating lunch and wearing an under tank, long sleeve tee, sweater and coat. I’m going to a class in 5 minutes where I’ll be wearing the long sleeve tee with the sleeves pushed up and then in the class after that I’ll be wearing all of the layers plus a coat. We let kids wear whatever they need to (within reason) to be comfortable.

Staff in our building have complained for years to building services at the school and central office level about the heating/cooling but there hasn’t been any change. MCPS really only takes parent complaints seriously (which I know isn’t the case all the time). But they will just put a bandaid on the situation because they don’t want to spend the money to permanently fix it. The interesting thing is that every training I’ve attended in a MCPS central office building has had a functional HVAC system and they can control the temperature if it’s too cold or too warm (except  Rocking Horse Road—it’s either freezing or incredibly hot in there). One more example of the central office folks not being personally impacted by things like this so they don’t consider it to be a priority or even a need. [/quote]

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