With the school year coming to an end, students at BHS have been able to enjoy the hot weather outside of school. However, this also means the temperatures are rising in the school building. Within the last few weeks, students at BHS have facing hot classrooms with no air conditioning. Several exterior third floor classrooms experienced temperatures in the upper 80s last Friday, June 12th. This makes it more challenging for faculty to teach, and for students to learn.
“Research shows that the ideal temperature for learning is 64 degrees,” explains Principal Bob Keuther.
Sophomore Nathan Tran feels the effects of learning in a hot classroom.
“The heat has really affected my ability to learn because it has been making me sweat and when I sweat, it is harder for me to learn because it makes me stressed and when I’m stressed, I can not learn,” explains Sophomore Nathan Tran.
Many people at BHS have been struggling with the heat. However, it is not only students who have been having a hard time with it.
“It’s definitely difficult. It’s difficult for them to ask to do anything, like even just move around. I mean, it’s difficult for me. On Friday afternoon, I was standing up here and I was sweating, just standing here. So, you know, it’s tough but you got to just try to do the best you can and you mix it up a little bit. But I would say it definitely makes it a little bit hard…So it’s definitely an obstacle, regarding motivation, but, you know, you just do the best you can,” says Freshman history teacher Mr. Krall.
Although everyone hates these hot days in school, the reason for these hot days might be something we love at the time.
“So, days like this are really difficult. That’s why we hate snow days. So like you know, I see snow days as these days that push us back into this. And so, that’s really difficult, cause it impacts learning.” Explains Principal Keuther.
However, even though nobody likes being in this hot school everyday, there is really nothing we can do about it. Mr. Keuther tells us why that is.
“I do think the hard part too is as you get close to the end of the year, you know, what do you do to remedy that? Well, we’re not gonna go to school at night, right? So, and if we canceled school because of the heat, the state requires us to make it up so now we’re adding that on to the 25th or 26th of June, which is not necessarily gonna be a better deal, right? So what we do is we all roll up our sleeves and navigate it as best we can,” Mr. Keuther adds.
