Eh, as an insurance professional, I disagree. We had a lot of very damaging storms.
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Eh, as an insurance professional, I disagree. We had a lot of very damaging storms.
Bad approach by the School District. In general tough to get voters to spend $150M on a bond issuance in a city the size of DBQ. All the projects were probably worth it, but too easy for voters to focus on specific projects they don't like when 5 projects are addressed.
I was shocked, one of the schools in DBQ that didn't have AC was built in late 1960's. I guess I shouldn't be shocked, my dad built our childhood home in mid-60's and it didn't have A/C.
Unless a person has been a teacher in a hot classroom with 30+ kids, one window, no AC, sweat dripping off kids’ noses and chins onto their papers…they shouldn’t be deciding whether schools should decide to let out early on hot days, or not. You have no idea!
Another old person here, weighing in.
No A/C anywhere I lived until 1986 when I finally paid to have it installed in my house purchased in 1982. Not even window A/C.
Growing up as a child I do remember us having a couple fans. But those were specifically for parent bedroom or common areas. So individually, we didn't even have a fan blowing on us in bed. Lots of waking up in a pile of damp sweaty bedding.
A couple things we did to escape the heat: Turn on the hose and spray each other. Go down into the basement with dirt floors where it was always cooler. Also we would get a blanket and lie down under a shade tree.
I always liked hot weather because it gave everyone an excuse to be lazy and relatively unproductive... those lazy days of summer.
Nearby Amish harvested ice first week of January. Much of it is still left in their ice house. Temp inside is 38 degrees.
We used to find snow under piles of woodchips in the summer.
I worked in an 100ish year old building with some window units depending upon their maintenance-- and after about 2 hours of 85+ degree inside temps kids are kind of little terrorists. Rightfully so.
As a 60 YO borderline luddite, I am surprised this is still an issue after going through Covid. Cancelling school because of excess heat/cold should be a much easier decision by school administrators than historically as kids should be able to get lesson plans and do schoolwork from home.
I realize there are issues for kids family. Parents work and home environment might not have A/C either.
The issue comes if the school is certified as an online school. If not, the school can not count the time that taught online.
This is what it looks like after they put it in ice house
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This is where state regulations probably need review.
I haven't seen the statistics for the 2024/25 school year, but last school year I recall about 10% of students in the DBQ public school district chose 100% online learning vs. in-person. Would think if a school district offers 100% online to a fairly high subset of kids in the community, they could figure a way to provide 5-10 days of online learning for the 90%.
The new truancy rules could make that messy. It would be hard to prove attendance.
