It’s not like they were trying to offset the costs of expensive winter heating, in part because our school rarely needs the furnace at all, regardless of what month or week it is
I grew up in the deep south far away from the ocean. I wasn’t near a river or lake either, making our environment particularly hot year round. However, the heat was always particularly miserable during the spring, summer, and autumn seasons. Even in winter we had weeks where highs would jump into the 80s in the mid afternoon hours. I can’t believe it when I think back, but that was normal for me for over 15 years of my life. We didn’t even have neighborhood pools where we could get some kind of relief, which is weird from what I’ve learned over the years. It seems like most medium-sized cities at least have public swimming of some kind, but our’s did not. When we were at school and the weather was hot outside, the campus administrators were happy watching us boil in those classrooms with the most meager air conditioning you could ever imagine. I wish the school officials would try to exist for longer than 30 minutes in those kinds of conditions, let alone retain their sanity in the process. I heard from some people that lived up north that their schools actually ran the air conditioning more than mine did during the worst summer heat waves. It’s not like they were trying to offset the costs of expensive winter heating, in part because our school rarely needs the furnace at all, regardless of what month or week it is. It just doesn’t get particularly cold in these neck of the woods. It’s the nasty summer heat waves that are the most frustrating to deal with, day in and day out.