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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the exact issue with switching between heat and AC within school buildings?[/quote]

For older systems, the process to switch from one system to the other isn't a simple one. I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, it usually involves flushing the entire system of the hot water used for heating and refilling/chilling cold water, or vice-versa. So you switch once when the seasons change and stick with it. It's quite common with commercial systems. Every year, the Target near our apartment building would be cleaned out of fans or space heaters whenever the weather changed and none of surrounding apartments had converted their systems yet.

That said, some schools do have the AC on already. My daughter's HS doesn't have AC yet, but she was at an event held in an MCPS elementary school last night that had good AC already. She said it seemed like a newer building, so presumably it's a more modern system that doesn't require such an extensive process to switch.[/quote]

I think it’s more frustrating bc this doesn’t make sense why our hallways have ac,.it’s literally 10 degrees cooler walking outside any classroom,. I just let the students work out in the hall today… front office has AC, cafeteria does… all the rooms where the learning happens were upper 80s today. Everyone was miserable again. Again- they have a huge budget, they need to redo the systems. [/quote]

My classroom’s AC never works. This past September there was a 10-12* difference between my room and the classroom adjacent to me. I was told that because I only complained once, it was assumed it was only that day. Since then, I filled out that form every day until the weather got cooler. My classroom has two tiny windows and sits on the playground’s blacktop area. [/quote]

Unreal. Tell your students to have their parents complain to the school and also to MCPS. That is what our teachers kept telling the students to do all week. They probably won't listen to teachers, but they always kowtow to parents, so hopefully something has got to give. [/quote]

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