Anonymous
04/15/2023 17:45
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
All the kids in NYC just sweat it out no AC most schools. Even summer school. Such babies
Anonymous
04/15/2023 16:16
Subject: Re:Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Year round offices in a school have a different HVAC system.
Anonymous
04/15/2023 09:52
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is 7 months pregnant and died a thousand times in this heat in the classroom this past week. I teach 5th graders and the smell was horrific. I vomited non-stop in my closet trash can. I just drank a lot of water, brought a small fan, and fanned myself a lot. But, whew, this was a hard week!!! The only thing that really made me upset was the fact that admin had their AC ice cold in their offices along with the counselor as they had window units. Luckily, our sweet AP let me eat lunch and take a breather or two in her office to cool down and put my feet up as they were so swollen this week.
Random parts of our building had AC on, including the front office/admin as well. Meanwhile, everyone else was completely miserable. Let the kids suffer! At least the principals are comfortable! State testing this week...thank goodness it looks like the forecast will be better, but they tested this past week, the scores would have been GRIM. Students couldn't focus on anything other than how hot they are and how much sweat was dripping onto their desks. Shame on MCPS. (Yes, it's apparently super complicated. They should have started the process sooner. They have the money to cough up an extra month of AC in anticipation of warmer weather in April.)
Anonymous
04/15/2023 09:11
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Teacher who is 7 months pregnant and died a thousand times in this heat in the classroom this past week. I teach 5th graders and the smell was horrific. I vomited non-stop in my closet trash can. I just drank a lot of water, brought a small fan, and fanned myself a lot. But, whew, this was a hard week!!! The only thing that really made me upset was the fact that admin had their AC ice cold in their offices along with the counselor as they had window units. Luckily, our sweet AP let me eat lunch and take a breather or two in her office to cool down and put my feet up as they were so swollen this week.
Anonymous
04/15/2023 09:07
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those are some old buildings still operating on Edison Power.
The capitol budget isn't enough to replace hvac in all buildings. They tried to improve air handlers for covid, at least.
If they spent less money on these silly faux-SEL programs, anti-XYZ audits that accomplish nothing, and funding the kid's museum maybe there'd be money for other things.
THIS
MCPS has plenty of money. They just choose to waste money on useless initiatives and other nonsense instead of things that actually benefit students (and teachers).
Anonymous
04/15/2023 08:31
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those are some old buildings still operating on Edison Power.
The capitol budget isn't enough to replace hvac in all buildings. They tried to improve air handlers for covid, at least.
If they spent less money on these silly faux-SEL programs, anti-XYZ audits that accomplish nothing, and funding the kid's museum maybe there'd be money for other things.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 19:33
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Those are some old buildings still operating on Edison Power.
The capitol budget isn't enough to replace hvac in all buildings. They tried to improve air handlers for covid, at least.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 19:05
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Those are some old buildings still operating on Edison Power.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 17:06
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Sweltering in our health clinic. It is hot.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 17:04
Subject: Re:Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the exact issue with switching between heat and AC within school buildings?
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.
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.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 14:34
Subject: Re:Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:What is the exact issue with switching between heat and AC within school buildings?
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.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 11:57
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please complain to MCPS if your child’s building hasn’t. It was close to 86 degrees today in my classroom and the rest of the building. We accomplished nothing because they kids were way too hot… as were the teachers. State testing is around the corner and students cannot function in that kind of heat. 28 students packed into a room that is 86 degrees…. We have a 3 billion dollar budget. Absolutely ridiculous.
OMG no wonder they have to increase taxes. When I was a kid no schools had AC. We just opened the windows.
I know it's ridiculous how spoiled and pampered these kids are...
Anonymous
04/14/2023 11:51
Subject: Re:Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
What is the exact issue with switching between heat and AC within school buildings?
Anonymous
04/14/2023 11:50
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please complain to MCPS if your child’s building hasn’t. It was close to 86 degrees today in my classroom and the rest of the building. We accomplished nothing because they kids were way too hot… as were the teachers. State testing is around the corner and students cannot function in that kind of heat. 28 students packed into a room that is 86 degrees…. We have a 3 billion dollar budget. Absolutely ridiculous.
OMG no wonder they have to increase taxes. When I was a kid no schools had AC. We just opened the windows.
It also wasn't regularly 90 degrees in April buddy but keep telling us how it was. I also want to emphasize that unless you were in a major metropolitan city, the comparison for suburban schools' temperature is not comparable. More cars, more people, etc. in suburban areas including around schools increase the temps in the surrounding areas. It is 10000% amplified in the city but suburban areas experience this as well.
Anonymous
04/14/2023 11:41
Subject: Many Buildings Haven’t Switched to AC
Anonymous wrote:Please complain to MCPS if your child’s building hasn’t. It was close to 86 degrees today in my classroom and the rest of the building. We accomplished nothing because they kids were way too hot… as were the teachers. State testing is around the corner and students cannot function in that kind of heat. 28 students packed into a room that is 86 degrees…. We have a 3 billion dollar budget. Absolutely ridiculous.
I am so sorry. That sounds absolutely miserable.