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In a message dated 2/23/02 11:16:22 PM, learn@JPS.NET writes: << My classroom got air conditioning for the first time this year. We get some hundred-degree days, but I don't remember them ever cancelling school no matter how hot it got inside the rooms. >> The same was true in Chicago. The last summer I taught summer school (1997), the temperature went above 90 degrees in my classroom (which didn't even have windows) several times at Bowen High School. Had the same thing happened at the Ford Taurus plant three miles south, the UAW contract would have required that the assembly line be shut down. But we had to continue, despite the risks to health. During the hot summer of 1988, I gave my students (at Roosevelt HIgh School) a laser printed award (they were more rare in those days, as were laser printers) indicating they had passed their final on "The Catcher in the Rye" on a day when the room temperature had exceeded 95 degrees by 11:00 a.m. That summer, I had three students go down with heat exhaustion. All survived. George Schmidt -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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