Chillin' at school

I heard the boiler system at Kennedy Middle school is not working. Was told some of the rooms today never got warmer than 50 degrees.... that would suck!!!

Ain't that just too bad

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

Ain't that just too bad

well aren't you a compassionate bastard.......

They'd have shut down, over here.

LukeTHr wrote:

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

Ain't that just too bad

well aren't you a compassionate bastard.......

You telling us you never sat in a classroom that was either hotter than Hades with no fan or a classroom with a single radiator barely putting out heat...Most of us here have probably done both. My point was that kids today are spoiled as can be and don't k now how good they have it .

Good Stuff!

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

LukeTHr wrote:

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

Ain't that just too bad

well aren't you a compassionate bastard.......

You telling us you never sat in a classroom that was either hotter than Hades with no fan or a classroom with a single radiator barely putting out heat...Most of us here have probably done both. My point was that kids today are spoiled as can be and don't k now how good they have it .

Ain't no shit. The 6th grade rooms at Lincoln were a bitch in the warm months. They were on the west side with lots of windows to act like a greenhouse after noon and at that time it was the old part of school with no air conditioners.

50 degrees doesn't sound like much of a hardship when I see kids running around town in shorts, t-shirts, and flipflops in the snow.

Heck, we didn't even notice the heat or cold, when we were kids. Most of us didn't have the luxury of an AC in the summer or anything more than a floor or wall heater during the winter. I agree, kids are wusses, today.

I still have nothing but a wall heater.

I did not have A/C in a school until I transferred to Wilson High for my Senior year

A/C, what is ac???? Where I came from ac didn't exists.

The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love to chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs and tyrannize over their teachers

Bighead wrote:

tyrannize over their teachers

Not if I can help it

suzyr wrote:

Heck, we didn't even notice the heat or cold, when we were kids.

We did in Knoll's room when I was at Lincoln. For some reason there were some very hot days the year I was in 6th grade. The lower grades had AC, but we didn't and I remember Knoll and Kolb bringing in fans and letting us have water and such. Some kids had trouble it was so stifling in those rooms. I remember the look of misery on Knoll's face trying to teach while soaked in sweat too.

I also remember wading through knee deep snow across Chetolah Creek to go to Roosevelt and sitting in class with wet cold shoes and pants and nobody seemed worried about it.

50 degrees don't sound so bad now....haha!

from my understanding the heat was not functioning for about 3 or 4 days.. now ya gotta admit it, it is hard to concentrate when you are cold. and in this day and age of modern life, it can be very hard to adjust when you have become accustomed to a certain level of "luxury" as it seems heat in the wintertime is referred to. I grew up with no A/C in grade school so I know what the heat was like but they did always keep us warm in the winter.

blackie is probably one of the folks like my dad that had to walk 3 miles uphill both ways in a snowstorm just to get to school, oh , and with cardboard in the bottoms of the shoes to cover up the holes.......

Not quite...I walked 2 miles and had the luxury of wearing my cousins hand me down boots.No cardboard required.And If it was snowing we went anyway,We didn't have folks like Kauffman to call off school because the roads MIGHT be muddy.

LukeTHr wrote:

from my understanding the heat was not functioning for about 3 or 4 days.. now ya gotta admit it, it is hard to concentrate when you are cold. and in this day and age of modern life, it can be very hard to adjust when you have become accustomed to a certain level of "luxury" as it seems heat in the wintertime is referred to. I grew up with no A/C in grade school so I know what the heat was like but they did always keep us warm in the winter.

blackie is probably one of the folks like my dad that had to walk 3 miles uphill both ways in a snowstorm just to get to school, oh , and with cardboard in the bottoms of the shoes to cover up the holes.......

Maybe you should listen too your dad..you may learn something.

can't listen to him, he's dead.... been that way for 22 years now.

Sorry to hear that!

Ratzilla wrote:

suzyr wrote:

Heck, we didn't even notice the heat or cold, when we were kids.

We did in Knoll's room when I was at Lincoln. For some reason there were some very hot days the year I was in 6th grade. The lower grades had AC, but we didn't and I remember Knoll and Kolb bringing in fans and letting us have water and such. Some kids had trouble it was so stifling in those rooms. I remember the look of misery on Knoll's face trying to teach while soaked in sweat too.

Third floor of the old Hays High was no picnic, either.

Well, I went to St. Joe's. Not only did we have the heat to contend with in the hotter months, we also had bats flying in the classrooms on the 4th floor. Fun times, watching St. Mathilda swing at them with her broom (I'm sure the broom was her ride to the building, btw).

I've heard the bat stories before. It'd be a funny diversion of the day. My sisters went there because we lived close by and mom thought it'd be cheaper. One of them that NB knows well got sent home for doing things normal kids do on the playground that allowed her panties to be seen. The animal swinging the broom may have had a lower IQ than the bat.

It was hilarious. A great memory.

I remember when I was at Roosevelt a kid brought a bat in a shoe box that his dad caught in their attic. It seemed pretty sick and never tried to fly but the teacher still let him open the box so everyone could look at it. Little sucker could have been rabid.