>>Maybe in the South. I never attended a school with air conditioning, and I think my kids didn't either.
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>Amazing. It's only 200-250 miles between us. In Charlottesville, they even had a centralized control of AC for all the schools in the county (there was probably some dispute once over the settings, and it seems a committee solved it this way). This usually meant that, come April, we'd have to give her at least a light sweater to put on in the classroom - it was too cold.

But that 200-250 miles is a huge climate difference, I think. Here, with a September to June school year, only perhaps the first couple of weeks and the last couple are likely to have weather too hot for learning. This year, it's actually been cool for the first week of school.

Probably more to the point, most of the schools here are old, or at least older. They were built when no one would have thought of air conditioning a school.

Tamar