BALTIMORE -- In the winter, it gets very cold in some of the classrooms at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School (Mervo), where I’m a sophomore. In November, Ms. (Swetha) Mohan, a geometry teacher, wrote this on the board to prevent students from badgering her about the cold temperature in her classroom.
Frigid temperatures in classrooms are a big problem across Baltimore, which has some of the oldest and most rundown school buildings in the state, according to the Baltimore Sun. I decided to interview students and teachers at my school to learn how cold temperatures affect their ability to learn and teach.
Some said they are frustrated when Baltimore schools remain open in terrible weather and other counties close. Students talked about the frustration they have with the lack of heat at Mervo and the difficulty of getting to school on public transportation when its cold. Teachers talked about how hard it is to teach in a cold climate, partly because student attendance is so low.
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4 comments:
Joe, there are school class rooms in Wicomico county that do not have heat and have not had heat for (2) years. The budget is there to provide Pre-K but not to fix broken HVAC systems in schools less that 10 years old. So lets add more programs that we can fund to start but can not find the funds to maintain. Makes perfect cents.
Baltimore needs to quit wasting money on administration and other expenditures. Where is a forensic audit for accountability?
Yeah, well get used to it. AOC doesn't want fossil fuels being used. So kids, chop down the trees in your yard and bring them to school for heat. Don't blame me, your parents or associates or family probable voted for this idiot. She is jsut as stupid as a chunk of wood.
Maybe the $500K paid to Baltimore's Mayor for her 'children's books' at the Medical Center and never distributed could have been better spent on repairing the heat and AC in the schools.
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