School Days Weren’t Cool
Certainly attending school in the super-hot West Valley without air conditioning is a brutal experience.
But the 106-degree heat waves here are less oppressive than the 95 degrees with 98 humidity that school kids endure during June and September in New York, Philly, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City and elsewhere. Sweat oozes from the pores onto soaked writing paper, sweat drips from the brow and neck, sweat causes one’s clothes to cling.
And while things may have changed since I finished college in 1968, I don’t remember any of my classrooms being air-conditioned, from first grade through graduate school.
RICK ROFMAN
Van Nuys
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