MrNurse(x2) the Benevolent

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I must be in a good mood. Sent 3 home today, kids who I haven't seen all year and not feeling great, but no definitive symptoms to say yes. Golden ticket day here.

This. We had NO AC back in the day. Please kids, suck it up.

And we weren't allowed to wear shorts unless it was over 90 degrees!!!

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We do not have central ac in our school but each classroom does have a window unit which appears at the end of May and disappear mid September.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

i was thinking today about how we had a school rule when i was a wee lass about no shorts in school until June or something - but had no a/c either. Hot times, hot times.

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Specializes in family practice and school nursing.

Me too!

I usually give "first time flyers" more latitude and/or benefit of the doubt.
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Specializes in School nurse.
This. We had NO AC back in the day. Please kids, suck it up.

We had fans in a 1920 brick school house. Oh and we were about a mile from a slaughterhouse and a refinery. Good times.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
This. We had NO AC back in the day. Please kids, suck it up.

We had one air conditioner for the whole house. It was in the basement because that's where the really expensive (in those days) computer was. So, when it started to hit 95 or so, we'd all break out the sleeping bags and "camp in". Other than that, we learned how to deal with it.

As far as when it came to school, my elementary school didn't have air conditioning. My intermediate school was built in two phases- the newer side (5th grade) had air conditioning. The older side (6th grade) was built in the early 1900s and did not have air conditioning. We had some pretty miserable pregnant teachers when it got to be later in the year. The year we had a teacher's strike, we ended up going to school until almost the end of June. It was hot hot hot! The district has since built a new elementary and intermediate school, and both have air conditioning.

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We still have older, pre-AC schools, slowly converting. A little more fiscally conservative here. I went to an ES that used to be the "consolidated" HS, code for "colored" and we didn't have AC (back in the '70's), they now have AC. Our school has AC, it just wasn't working in that one portable for a few days, they were waiting on a part.

:lol2: I live in a very rural farming community. The elementary school here in town is the same one my 87 year old mother-in-law went to and it has air conditioning. They upgraded to have A/C obviously.

The high school here in town is also the one she attended and it has air conditioning.

Obviously, not when she was a student here though.

We have all very old schools. I think the newest is from 1971. ;)

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malingering anaphylaxis?

T shirt.

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