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Legend [19610]
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With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:04 AM
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it got me thinking.
Right or wrong, I don't think it would be even fathomable to administrators back then to call off school for rain in the 70's and 80's.
However, we did have a policy that if the temp got above 96 for more than an hour, school could be dismissed due to the heat, as many of the schools had no air conditioning back then. We got out early from school for two straight weeks when I was in the 8th grade. Now all the schools have air conditioning so that policy doesn't apply.
Our classes would have multiple big box fans which would blow papers off desks and make it very difficult to hear the teacher, much less concentrate.
And if it was a class right after lunch..forget it. They may as well have called that class 'sleep-hall'; with a full belly, the heat, the hypnotizing drone of the fans and the air circulating.
Are there any similar stories?
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:08 AM
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We never had big box fans but our middle school & part of the high school had no air conditioning 😂
Kids today would melt, this current generation have very poor social skills, work ethic & ability to do anything with self motivation in most cases.
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CU Medallion [51280]
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FANS! You had fans! We were lucky to have windows that would open
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:08 AM
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with a little breeze coming through. And no.... we never dismissed early due to heat and I was just across the lake from Charlotte.
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Legend [19610]
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I was across the river..in Gaston County.
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:12 AM
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And yes, we did get out for heat.
What was really dumb is that they would never dismiss school for snow that was coming. Instead they would wait till the flakes started to fall, which would often be less than an hour after we got to school, so they would cancel school after everybody had arrived, forcing the busses and cars to pick up students in the slush to take them back to their homes.
That was stupid.
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Orange Blooded [4810]
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:11 AM
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Don't forget we weren't even allowed to wear shorts back then. Made the heat even more stifling.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:14 AM
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OMG yes and on the first day of school during the dog days of August with those new stiff jeans on. Hot as blue blazes. Today's youth couldn't handle it.
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Legend [19610]
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If you went toa school which had no A/C we could wear shorts.
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:16 AM
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My high school had A/C so we had to wear long pants and the girls had a 2 inch rule on skirts.
Shorts were used as a reward, as they would have 'shorts days' where you could wear them if you donated to a charity drive, or had perfect attendance or if you were Deans list..that sort of thing.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:12 AM
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We didn't get out for heat--no matter how hot. I was in high school in the 70's--we only had a fan if the teacher brought one.
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I graduated HS in 77, and my elementary school had no AC, and neither did
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:24 AM
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the older buildings in my HS. The only time we got out of school due to weather was when we had snow and/or ice. Many days we sweated all day while we sat in class, with the only relief being open widows and oscillating fans.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:25 AM
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I grew up in the rural lowcountry in the 60s and 70s and only remember school being out a couple of times when the power was out after a hurricane or tropical storm. No AC, but we didn’t have AC at home until maybe the early to mid 70s. My Dad put a window unit in the den and one in their bedroom. Then added one for the kitchen and finally in my and my brother’s bedrooms about the time I started high school. When I was a kid and probably into my early 20s I couldn’t sleep unless I was sweating. Just the way it was.
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Legend [19610]
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Our house did not have central air either. We had a window unit in the den.
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:30 AM
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And we had a whole house attic fan which would slam all the doors shut and scatter papers and dust...that thing had serious power.
In 1983 we had an addition added to the house (going for 1300 s/f to 2700 s/f) and installed central A/C at the same time.
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We had no AC in our home until I was about 10 years old, when we put
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:36 AM
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a window unit in the living room. On hot summer nights, sometimes we'd close off the doors in the hall and all sleep in the living room where it was cooler. Still, especially as I became a teenager, I spent more nights in my own bedroom with open windows and sticking to the sheets all night. No way I could tolerate that now, but then, it was no big deal, just the way it was. My parents finally got central air when I moved out at 18.
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Re: We had no AC in our home until I was about 10 years old, when we put
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Jan 9, 2024, 11:07 AM
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I think we lived in the same house.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:28 AM
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We had no air conditioning in elementary or middle school.
and there was no air conditioning in the enginerring buildings at Clemson when I was there.
They never canceled school due to heat.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:30 AM
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I'll tell you, I don't remember ever getting out of school for any reason other than a crippling ice/snow event!! Never would have been called for wind/rain!!
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
Jan 9, 2024, 11:19 AM
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Went to school 1957-69. No AC ever. Never any AC at home either. No fans in classes. We didn't know any different so we just got hot and did our work.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:36 AM
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When I went to school we walked uphill both ways in knee
deep snow. Summer, we had no such thing called a fan.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:58 AM
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Think the closings were more for the forecast of up to 50 mph gusts which can play havoc especially on county roads where trees hug roadways in many areas. That and resulting downed power lines make travel travel messy, not to mention the idiot drivers.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 10:59 AM
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I remember growing up in Charleston. There was one window air conditioner in the whole school - in the principal's office. Unfortunately, the Vice-principal handled all disciplinary actions.
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Just more vaginafication of society.***
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Jan 9, 2024, 11:03 AM
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Re: Just more vaginafication of society.***
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Jan 9, 2024, 11:10 AM
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Word of the day!!!
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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To the best of my memory, we never got out of school because of heat, rain, or wind. In the late 60's, our elementary school had no air conditioning except in the Library and Principal's office. We did have a new middle school with air conditioning. And my high school had air conditioning in about 1/3 of the school.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
Jan 9, 2024, 11:33 AM
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I grew up in Sumter (SC) and attended school grades 1-12 through the 50s-60s. We had no knowledge of even what an "AC" was when I attended elementary school....and never had AC in High School (Edmunds High). Our high school building had really high ceilings and large windows that would open. No fans that I recall. When I entered Clemson (1967), I had never even seen the campus before I became a "RAT". My freshman (Rat year) was the last class that 'required' male Rats to have their head shaved. I got my "Rat cut" on the Logia......I remember it like it was yesterday.
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It all comes down to liability!
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Jan 9, 2024, 11:34 AM
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My wife works in the school system and all these decisions are a “dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t“ situation. “Virtual learning” makes it much easier to make those calls now. The last thing school boards and ed. centers want are a bunch of angry parents calling bc their kids are stuck on a bus for several hours bc roads are impassable. Headlining prime time local news is not what they want.
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Re: With the kids out of school today in the Charlotte area for winds and rain
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Jan 9, 2024, 11:45 AM
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I’m millennial so all the schools had A/C when I was there, we just got out for snow. I was in the upstate and one of my best memories is from first grade when they called school for early dismissal and we got out at noon. There was about 4 inches of snow on the ground at dismissal and we were able to play with all our friends in the snow waiting on the busses and parents to come pick us up. This would never happen today with how they’re cancelling for wind now……
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As I am in Clemson Area reading this a weather alert just
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Jan 9, 2024, 11:52 AM
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Popped up on my phone that says,
“EMERGENCY ALERT
National Weather Service: A FLASH FLOOD WARNING is in effect for this area until 3:00 PM EST. This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order“
So they made the right call because alot of the roads are becoming impassable.
Having said that, I agree with several that we had no AC when I was in school and we had to wear pants. I recall we had so many snow days my senior year at Daniel High (1987) we had to make up that I was sitting in my classes until June 13 -graduation June 15, No AC, long pants, and it was so hot you could see the heat radiating like it you were looking down a long Texas Highway in the summer.
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