HOWEVER, I've lived the past couple of weeks on the west side of a metal box with very little insulation during 100º+ temperatures with 30 or so other warm bodies in the room at the same time! The result of all these factors was temperatures of 80º to 85º in my classroom. The kids were great. They didn't complain, but just stated, "It sure is warm in here." I brought in fans and we did our best to deal with the heat.
Workers have been in and out of our room since school began. We just got our wifi connections at the end of this week, we still don't have any type of projector, no flags, ceiling tiles and broken furniture and strewn all around the place... it's really not ready to be inhabited, but we're here and we're making it and we're learning. Since they had signed off on the AC, I assumed that the temperatures were a direct result of the factors listed above. (That makes sense, doesn't it?)
This morning, I wandered in to the office and made some comment about the temperature was down to 80º in my room and it felt positively lovely compared to what we had the day before. Ms. Bekah, our most excellent receptionist/face of Stiles/greeter extraordinaire/filler outer of work orders, said, "WHAT!?! That is NOT okay." She immediately emailed the district office. Within an hour, I had the most amazing AC ever. The kids and I were all even a little cold!
Later, I asked Ms. Bekah how she managed to get such remarkable results. She said she informed district that the children were melting, and we couldn't have that happening... I'm sure her email was extremely entertaining and very polite, but she got some serious results. I love her!
***Oh, and evidently a little freon did the job. So much for saying the AC was working and ready to go.
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