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Almost 50 Baltimore schools with no AC close early as temps hit 90 on first day of fall

The schools that lacked air conditioning dismissed students early for the third time this month.

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Almost 50 Baltimore schools with no AC close early as temps hit 90 on first day of fall
The schools that lacked air conditioning dismissed students early for the third time this month.


Sept. 23, 2019, 4:01 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 23, 2019, 4:24 PM EDT
By Daniella Silva
About 50 schools in Baltimore that lack air conditioning dismissed students early on Monday, the first day of fall, for the third time this month as temperatures hit a stifling 90 degrees.
Due to the high temperatures, about 50 schools without air conditioning were to dismiss three hours early, Baltimore City Public Schools said in a statement on Monday morning.

The school district previously announced the affected schools would dismiss three hours early on Sept. 12 and two hours early on Sept. 4, the second day of classes.
The schools are listed on the district’ website as designated for early dismissal on “extremely hot days.” Temperatures have repeatedly reached the low 90s in Baltimore this month.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote in a post on Facebook Monday afternoon that this was "the third time in the new school year that students are being deprived of valuable time in the classroom because of this problem."
"I am appalled that this continues to detract from the education of thousands of young Marylanders who deserve a safe, healthy, and comfortable learning environment," he wrote. "This is the third-highest funded large school system in America — where’s the accountability?"
Earlier Monday, in response to the third day of early dismissals, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s office referred to a previous statement the governor made after the first day of early dismissals this year.
“It is outrageous and completely unacceptable that the third-highest funded school system in America still refuses to put air conditioning in all their schools, and had to send kids home from 57 hot school buildings,” Hogan wrote in a statement on Sept. 4. “The Baltimore City School System must be held accountable.”



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According to the Baltimore Sun, the city has some of Maryland’s oldest school buildings and a maintenance backlog of roughly $3 billion worth of projects. In an update to its air-conditioning plan published in May, the district said its buildings overall were the oldest of any school district in the state and "numerous buildings need significant system upgrades or complete replacement."
In 2016, Hogan threatened to withhold millions of dollars in school construction funding, calling on officials to come up with a plan to install air conditioning in the schools.
The school district said in its May plan that it developed a plan in 2017 to ensure all buildings in its district would have air-conditioning by the 2022-2023 school year, but it added that completion by that time was no longer possible given available funding.
In a previous statement, the Baltimore Teachers Union said the early dismissals did not come as a surprise.
“Our scholars continue to suffer academically because their instructional time is interrupted due to these extreme conditions,” Diamonté Brown, president of the union, said. “While the district works to find and implement a resolution for this ongoing problem, we, as a community, must continue to develop creative and innovative solutions ... to help our educators provide our scholars with a classroom environment that is conducive for learning.”
The union collected hundreds of fans for teachers to use in overheated classrooms.
The union and Baltimore City Public Schools did not respond to immediate request for comment Monday.



Seriously, whoever is running the budget for the Baltimore public school system needs to be fired and charged for negligence. Doesn't make any type of sense to not have basic necessities like air conditioning. I know America's school system is lacking, but this takes it on a whole new level. Baltimore's government has failed its citizens yet again and nothing is being done about it.

 

[Coolio55]

Finally! The MSM shares my views on ventilating black children!

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Finally! The MSM shares my views on ventilating black children!

Bitch, I woke the neighbours up.

Isn't the former Mayor of Balti-poor being investigated for graft, corruption, embezzlement, and other assorted (but not unexpected of a Democrat) bureaucratic crimes and coverups, or am I thinking of a different shithole, ghetto-ridden city with a decades-long history of electing corrupt Democrats that fleece the tax base with vigor and enthusiasm?

 

[neverendingmidi]

Bitch, I woke the neighbours up.

Isn't the former Mayor of Balti-poor being investigated for graft, corruption, embezzlement, and other assorted (but not unexpected of a Democrat) bureaucratic crimes and coverups, or am I thinking of a different shithole, ghetto-ridden city with a decades-long history of electing corrupt Democrats that fleece the tax base with vigor and enthusiasm?

Well it's one of them. I think it was Baltimore where the Mayor either went on the run or just hid for a while (conflicting stories) and made bank by having the city buy a boatload of her crappy picture book.

 

[takemetoyourgrave]

Bitch, I woke the neighbours up.

Isn't the former Mayor of Balti-poor being investigated for graft, corruption, embezzlement, and other assorted (but not unexpected of a Democrat) bureaucratic crimes and coverups, or am I thinking of a different shithole, ghetto-ridden city with a decades-long history of electing corrupt Democrats that fleece the tax base with vigor and enthusiasm?

Well it's one of them. I think it was Baltimore where the Mayor either went on the run or just hid for a while (conflicting stories) and made bank by having the city buy a boatload of her crappy picture book.

Mayor Pugh has been ousted after selling an alleged hundred thousand books to city hospitals and schools, etc. One of the funny things about this alleged crap ton of books being sold is no one seemed to have a copy, even the hospital system that spent tens of thousand of dollars on these books. Some of the notable issues with these books are how shitty they are. They were obviously only sold because Pugh's name was attached. A post article notes

In the book, a little girl named Holly learns to exercise. She walks through parks, rides a bike, dances and jumps rope with her parents and friends. Those important verbs are in bold letters in the book, to make sure we remember all the different ways to exercise, except the author sometimes forgets to make the right words bold. Oops! Holly has conversations with her parents, too, except the author sometimes also forgets to put quotation marks in the right places. Oops again! “Healthy Holly” is a little sloppy!

A reddit user who snagged a copy notes, "Yeah all of the vegetables/vegatables look like clip art just copied and pasted into spots. Also that family must have some terrible full body arthritis or some sort of muscular disease. They are always at full flex and look like they can't fully bend their joints." The photos I've seen are bad. Like really horrible bad. Like whoever illustrated this should be shot.
Last I recall the FBI were searching her home and removing stuff. Maryland in general has quite a history of corruption in their officials with Pugh just being the most recent. Sorry for the sperg but bad literature gets me going.

It also gets horrifically warm in Baltimore. It like a lot of cities are heat sinks were the heat is trapped and doesnt seem to dissipate. Ever. These schools are also decades old so i cant imagine large windows were considered a necessity in their architecture.

 

[Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD]

Imagine living in Baltimore and having kids lmao

I only know 2 people from Baltimore, and they got out of that shithole as soon as they could, and now they live on the south coast of England. Baltimore put them off America for life, and they chose England instead. That's how bad Baltimore is.

 

[Dynastier]

This is Yuropoor propeganda

I mean... fans can cool you, by moving the hot air away from you, and helping evaporate your sweat. But they do not lower the temperature in the room. If anything, they raise it due to friction and electrical resistance.

But it's also weird he said it like it was some new invention. I am pretty sure, as dumb as they are currently acting, the democrats are aware of the existence of fans.

I'm probably reading too much into it, maybe just rate me autistic...

 

[AnotherPleb]

Those of you saying that fans are all one needs to stay cool hasn't had to work in an old brick building. In buildings like that the heat does not fade easily since brick is a fairly good insulator, and I have a strong feeling that a lot of schools there are like that.

It's even worse if it's humid out. I feel for those kids.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Bitch, I woke the neighbours up.

Isn't the former Mayor of Balti-poor being investigated for graft, corruption, embezzlement, and other assorted (but not unexpected of a Democrat) bureaucratic crimes and coverups, or am I thinking of a different shithole, ghetto-ridden city with a decades-long history of electing corrupt Democrats that fleece the tax base with vigor and enthusiasm?

Also the current Mayor

 

[Dynastier]

Also the current Mayor

That's a rather common story with black democrats in poor areas.
I'm gonna go against the kiwi grain and suggest the correlation works the opposite way the racists would say. It's not that black people are more likely to steal. It's that black people who steal are less likely to be punished for it by the democrats. And, I guess, that black constituency will let black representatives get away with a lot more.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

No matter their political position democrats will always find a way to fuck over black people.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

I mean... fans can cool you, by moving the hot air away from you, and helping evaporate your sweat. But they do not lower the temperature in the room. If anything, they raise it due to friction and electrical resistance.

If you think a typical fan has enough "friction and electrical resistance" to raise the temperature of a room then it's really no surprise why you think a fan can't cool a room. Typical american high school graduate understanding of physics.

 

[Dynastier]

If you think a typical fan has enough "friction and electrical resistance" to raise the temperature of a room then it's really no surprise why you think a fan can't cool a room. Typical american high school graduate understanding of physics.

Uhh... what?

Ok then, you explain to me how you lower the temperature of a room with a fan. No having the fan blow cold air out of a different room either, that's just an air conditioner at that point.

I would love to know what part of physics I apparently missed out on because apparently it was pretty big.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Ok then, you explain to me how you lower the temperature of a room with a fan. No having the fan blow cold air out of a different room either, that's just an air conditioner at that point.

1. Using a fan in front of a pot of water forces a phase change (evaporation) that cools the air due to the energy required to turn a milliliter of water into a water vapor.
2. The fan itself can promote circulation, thereby pushing the warm air to places in the room that have not absorbed heat or are cooler, which then lowers the temperature of the air via conduction.

The strategy of having colder air blown in from a different room is absolutely viable but I guess if you don't want to allow that then ok.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Uhh... what?

Ok then, you explain to me how you lower the temperature of a room with a fan. No having the fan blow cold air out of a different room either, that's just an air conditioner at that point.

I would love to know what part of physics I apparently missed out on because apparently it was pretty big.

What do you think they did before the 70's? Air conditioning was still being added to buildings then. You had a fan to move the air around to allow sweat to dry. Hell my aunt and uncle just recently got window air conditioners since their house is a restored one.

Boot camp in 2000 still didn't have air conditioning in the barracks. It is survivable, as long as you can open windows (to not trap the heat and try to catch and breeze, and have fans.

 

[Dynastier]

1. Using a fan in front of a pot of water forces a phase change (evaporation) that cools the air due to the energy required to turn a milliliter of water into a water vapor.
2. The fan itself can promote circulation, thereby pushing the warm air to places in the room that have not absorbed heat or are cooler, which then lowers the temperature of the air via conduction.

The strategy of having colder air blown in from a different room is absolutely viable but I guess if you don't want to allow that then ok.

Ah, swamp coolers. That's not just a fan, but I'll give it to you anyway, the fan is the only moving part. However these only work in areas with low humidity (I don't think Baltimore has low enough humidity for swamp coolers to work). But fair point, you actually are cooling the room this way. You got me there.

The second thing isn't cooling, that's just evening out the temperature in the room. You're heating air just as much as you're cooling it.

Blowing cooler air in from a different room means you have to generate the cool air in that different room. If you have a means of making a room cold, why not just use it to cool the room you're trying to cool, rather than a different one?

What do you think they did before the 70's? Air conditioning was still being added to buildings then. You had a fan to move the air around to allow sweat to dry. Hell my aunt and uncle just recently got window air conditioners since their house is a restored one.

Boot camp in 2000 still didn't have air conditioning in the barracks. It is survivable, as long as you can open windows (to not trap the heat and try to catch and breeze, and have fans.

Yeah, I get that fans help when it's hot, like you say, through helping your sweat evaporate, and also by evening out hot and cool areas. I was arguing that fans do not cool a room down, like an air conditioner does. (Not that air conditioners destroy the heat, they're moving it too, but through phase changes in the refrigerant).

One of the biggest ways fans help is because you've got a blanket of hot humid air around you indoors, as you are emitting heat and water. A fan blows this away from you, getting the air surrounding you down to room temperature.

I was being pedantic, and got BTFO anyway. Damn.

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

none of my schools had ac and none closed, we had to learn it didn't matter how hot it was.

edit: 90F is not even that hot... murifats are weak.

Can't believe the ratings you received.

Fact: if you find 90 degrees farenheit hot, you are probably very well "insulated".

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

Fact: if you find 90 degrees farenheit hot, you are probably very well "insulated".

???
How do you think fans cool a room down? All they do is move the air.

I think you were needlessly pedantic, you know what he meant. Fans aren't useful obviously to evaporate sweap when room temperature equals body temperature.

 

[Dynastier]

Fact: if you find 90 degrees farenheit hot, you are probably very well "insulated".



I think you were needlessly pedantic, you know what he meant. Fans aren't useful obviously to evaporate sweap when room temperature equals body temperature.

Indeed. Needlessly pedantic AND technically wrong. The worst kind of wrong...

 

[La Luz Extinguido]

They should go back to school, African skin and genetics were made to tolerate the arid conditions anyway.

 

[Pargon]

High schools in Japan have no fans, no A/C and are situated in a country where the rainy season lasts 2-3 months and consists of temperatures in the mid- to upper-80s with nearly 100 percent humidity and in many parts of the country nearly zero wind. Oh, and students are not permitted to wear whatever skin-bearing getups they want. This is the case in many, many places around the world, many of which boast much higher test scores than in America, so I don't wanna hear any shit about muh performance.

The teachers didn't want to deal with the little monsters while being hot. That's the long and the short of it.