To the editor: Your editorial on the patchy availability of air conditioning in L.A.-area schools notes that “youngsters return to high school in the course of the worst warmth of the yr.” That is the one acknowledgment of an unaddressed resolution that would go a good distance towards mitigating this pending disaster.
Why on Earth does faculty begin in the course of the most popular month of the yr? By no means thoughts the truth that many individuals are on trip in August.
Why not begin faculty later and finish in June, the month in any other case identified in L.A. because the reliably cool month of “June gloom”? No A/C wanted.
Sara R. Nichols, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I grew up in Monrovia within the mid-Nineteen Sixties. Temperatures bought as much as the 90s and typically even the 100s.
We had no A/C in our college however survived and thrived with followers and common water breaks. Nuns wore their black habits. I don’t understand how they survived these extremes.
Cease making an attempt to show us right into a bunch of softies by placing A/C in all lecture rooms, flats, properties and workplaces. Folks should study to manage. Adversity makes us stronger.
Henry Nowakowski, Orange
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To the editor: Your editorial on the dearth of air-con in some 650 Ok-12 lecture rooms within the L.A. Unified Faculty District was very unsettling. Youngsters, no extra so than adults, can not study in that surroundings — and who is aware of what number of kids for that motive don’t even present up for college?
What if the LAUSD created a “Maintain ’Em Cool” program via which caring members of the general public might donate appropriate new air-con items or the cash to buy them? If every affected faculty publicized precisely what it wanted, this data may be posted on the district’s web site, with items then shipped on to the colleges in query.
Alternatively, the district may create a “Maintain ’Em Cool” fund to which members of the general public may contribute, with assurances from the district that the monies shall be spent shortly for the acquisition and set up of the items on the needy faculties.
Massive-capacity window air conditioners price about $750 to $1,000 apiece. At this value, and with the right publicity, we may be pleasantly shocked at how many individuals are keen to pitch in so our Ok-12 youngsters can keep cool sufficient to study.
Chris Could, Pacific Palisades
