Reply #25: I think some of the suburban schools begin in a couple of weeks...

[ikojo]

I grew up in Springfield IL and we always started school about a week before Labor Day. The only part of my elementary school that had air conditioning (IF I am remembering correctly) was the mobile class room, which was basically a trailer made into a class room.

In the high school the only part with AC was called the "new" part of Lanphier, even though it had been built in the 70s and I was there in the 80s. I don't know if any other part of the high school has air conditioning now, I'll have to ask my nephew who is in the same school.

The schools around St Louis don't all have air conditioning...it greatly depends on which district. I think most, if not all, of the schools in the Parkway district have air conditioning. The schools in the city of St Louis are lacking in air conditioning but then those schools are lacking in accreditation at the moment.

I don't know how kids can be expected to learn when the temperatures exceed 90 degrees.

What I do recall from high school is that there would be very large fans in the windows and a fan up front where the teacher was. Not fun. I have always LOATHED summer.