Another brilliant idea from the LAUSD bureaucrats downtown. Three years ago they spent hundreds of millions of dollars installing classroom ac units with thermostats programmable only downtown (remember all those bond measures you’re still paying for?). This summer we’ve returned to our classrooms to find that they’ve reprogrammed the thermostats so that the ac units won’t turn on until the classroom temperature reaches 77 degrees.
77 degrees.
Imagine:
34 pre-teenage bodies in a small room watching the thermostat, waiting for it to hit 77.
Ms. B, it’s at 76.
Me: OK guys, breath really hard. Think towering, grandiose thoughts about yourselves. Then let all that hot air out.
30 kids pant and heave (4 are always too cool to move).
If we open the doors–which, by the way, in a brilliant design move, are both on the same wall precluding any possibility of cross-ventilation–the temperature drops just enough to be slightly less uncomfortable, but then the thermostat never triggers the ac.
And in a classic LAUSD move, you know when the triggers have been scheduled to reset?
3PM. 20 minutes after the kids leave.
So when I’m working in the room after all the bodies have gone home, I have to put my sweatshirt on.
Who says downtown doesn’t care about kids?
What I want to know is what are the ac trigger temps at the Beaudry Building where all these brilliant minds work. I’ll bet they’re well below 77.
on Sep 17th, 2009 at 10:05 am
unbelieeeeeevable. do they even realize they are doing this? or is it yet another oversight???? blehhhh
on Sep 17th, 2009 at 10:06 am
wait a sec - that wasn’t supposed to be a ‘happy face’ I made a ‘blehhh face.’