We’ve all felt the heat during a test, or when a teacher asks us a question in front of the class. The thick suffocation that the heat causes only makes it harder to think. How are the students supposed to get a great education when all they are thinking about is the temperature? Many are frustrated that we can get a donation to fix the stadium lights, but not one to put air conditioning in the high school. There are many different reasons why the school should install air conditioning; not only does the heat affect the students, but the teachers as well.
By not having air conditioning, distractions are created. Those not in the school are fortunate enough to not have to experience them. How can anyone expect students to focus in class when we’re all dripping sweat onto our desks, smudging the ink on our papers and falling into the crack of our keyboards? Some students might be comfortable in a hot room, but to most it’s hard to stay focused. If you aren’t staying focused during a lesson then there is a chance you might not know what to expect when it comes to taking a test or quiz.
In attempts to cool the room down, most of the teachers keep their windows open during class. This causes even more distractions. When the windows are opened, the likelihood of a bug flying in is even greater.
The addition of air conditioning will spare people’s eyes as well. How, you ask? By lowering the temperature, students no longer will have the excuse to expose more skin than the handbook allows.
Another bonus about having air conditioning is that the students would smell more pleasant. As of right now, the school is hot and gives no student the chance to cool down. The students who have gym class get hot and sweaty. They never get a chance to cool down because of the lack of air conditioning. Even though the students change for gym, it doesn’t help. Perfume and cologne tend to cause a terrible odor most of the time because it gets over sprayed. If it’s hot, these scents are designed to please the nose, instead become mixed with sweat and spreads across the room then nauseates all in the room.
The school should really consider trying to get air conditioning. Though the heat is typically only prevalent for a few weeks of school, by purchasing more fans or portable air conditioning units, we could make sure that the students are able to have a more enjoyable learning experience.
There are some ways to fundraise that the student body and faculty can do in order to raise enough to either install air conditioning, or if that is too absurd, to even buy more fans for classrooms. I believe that doing this would be a great start for the school.