A teacher asked: 'How can we expect them to learn when they're melting?'
reported the lack of air conditioning at many DPS schools
during a nearly week-long stretch of temps at or above 90 degrees in mid-September. At the time, nearly a third of all DPS schools didn't have central air conditioning, and even those that did could get way too warm in part because of the process in place at the time. Assorted teachers told that employees weren't allowed to simply adjust the AC if the classrooms got uncomfortable because cooling and heating were controlled by personnel at district headquarters.
This approach led to some sticky situations. At one school, a staffer guided a DPS administrative type from classroom to classroom to prove that the temperature in each was at or above 95 degrees. In that case, technicians found a mechanical complication that took the better part of two days to address.
At another school without central air, an educator pointed out that classrooms on upper floors could get so sweltering that educators commonly kept all the windows closed and the blinds lowered in an effort to prevent the spaces from being super-heated. When that didn't work, they turned on box fans, but those devices merely circulated the steamy air and created a distracting noise that teachers had to project over in an attempt to reach students that the heat was rapidly putting to sleep.
In September 2018, DPS boasted 248 facilities, and 78 of them didn't have central air conditioning. But as a district representative noted, students in those schools weren't left to broil; a bond program had allowed for the installation of classroom-level cooling units in select spaces that got especially hot.
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