Climate change is real, at least within our building the past three days.
Attending school right now feels as though you are attending two different climate zones within 8 hours. The 100s and 200s sit in the high 70s, while the 300s and 400s reach up to 85 degrees. Walking down Main Street, you can feel this change hitting the 400s staircase as a wave of hot and stuffy air floods your lungs and sticks to your skin. However, it doesn’t stop there. Walking up the back staircases that lead from the 300s to the 400s, another heatwave begins as the sun beats down through the window panes. As you reach the top stairs, you can see every classroom sitting idle, teachers spread across the school, finding a room that sits at a comfortable temperature. Even though the temperature remains high, the district is working with vendors all across the country to dissipate the heat wave that encompasses the school.
According to William Chizek the director of operations for Millard Public Schools, he says that the new gear box has been installed and they are expecting to fire it up as soon as possible.
In the meantime, administrators have been circulating throughout the building checking in on the learning conditions in the 60 percent of the building that is without air conditioning…