Found something else to blog about - Air-con.
Kids these days are really spoiled. I thought I was spoiled, but I guess each generation seems to have it easier than the last - more conveniences, more technology, more things done for their benefit.
I was having dinner with the grandparents and the TV was on KUAM news. There's a big brouhaha over lack of air-con in schools.
I spent most of my primary education in classrooms that did not have air-con. Air-cons kind of became compulsory for GPSS schools around the early part of my high school years. Newer schools since then were constructed with air-con systems in mind - like Southern High school - windows are small and located near the top of walls - how can wind circulate and ventilate a room like that? Older schools were renovated to accommodate air-con systems - they closed off large windows or sealed them to prevent cool air from leaking.
Now that GPSS is having difficulty maintaining air-cons in some schools, people are finding the classrooms to be too hot for education instruction.
So, if air-con is something not guaranteed to be provided by GPSS, why don't we just revert back to the way things were before air-con? I remember my old school classrooms used to have huge louvered windows and lots of minimal-noise ceiling fans - and that was adequate for learning.
Do we absolutely need air-con? My grandparents and parents survived school without air-con. I survived most of my school years without air-con also. Why can't kids these days do the same?
I was having dinner with the grandparents and the TV was on KUAM news. There's a big brouhaha over lack of air-con in schools.
I spent most of my primary education in classrooms that did not have air-con. Air-cons kind of became compulsory for GPSS schools around the early part of my high school years. Newer schools since then were constructed with air-con systems in mind - like Southern High school - windows are small and located near the top of walls - how can wind circulate and ventilate a room like that? Older schools were renovated to accommodate air-con systems - they closed off large windows or sealed them to prevent cool air from leaking.
Now that GPSS is having difficulty maintaining air-cons in some schools, people are finding the classrooms to be too hot for education instruction.
So, if air-con is something not guaranteed to be provided by GPSS, why don't we just revert back to the way things were before air-con? I remember my old school classrooms used to have huge louvered windows and lots of minimal-noise ceiling fans - and that was adequate for learning.
Do we absolutely need air-con? My grandparents and parents survived school without air-con. I survived most of my school years without air-con also. Why can't kids these days do the same?
It's so funny that you mentioned that. I was JUST talking to my co-worker about it yesterday and saying how back when we were in school we either didn't have A/C or when the A/C was out we'd open the windows. I don't understand why the gov't switched to these systems. If it ain't broke don't fix it ;)
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Jess |
8/23/2007 01:51:00 AM