Unair-Conditioned Class Is Unbearable

* I am a 16-year-old junior at Chatsworth High School and I am getting increasingly frustrated about our air-conditioning system. The main problem: We do not have one! Every summer, the students in class have to suffer through the unbearable heat while trying to concentrate on their already strenuous school work. I mean, if it was about 80 degrees in the classrooms, I would not complain. However, the temperatures in the classes are so hot that you start to feel the sweat, slowly but steadily, run down your forehead, then down your cheeks, and then finally onto your soaking shirt.

Of course this is a public school we are talking about. Nevertheless, the public students should not have to endure the heat of the California sun.

Instead, I propose a solution. Each of the schools could have a charity run, intended just for the problem of heat, to accumulate a substantial amount of money to buy some inexpensive fans to place in the classrooms, or they could ask for donations for fans from the parents of the students. Many are probably greatly concerned about the heat in the schools. Although fans don’t compare to air conditioning, they would greatly reduce the amount of perspiration emitted from our pores.

JASON HONG

Chatsworth