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Newport Harbor Air Conditioning Analysis

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At Newport Harbor High School many students and teachers suffer from the heat, making them uncomfortable in their classrooms and being drenched in sweat and feeling disgusting, but some students and teachers get to stay in nice and cold class rooms that has air conditioning. This shows an inequality in our school and that this is not fair to the students and staff. Scott Faludi a Newport Harbor sophomore said that working in a classroom with no air conditioning makes it “really hard to concentrate and pay attention”. Scott thinks that our school should figure out a way to install air conditioning in all the classrooms soon making it so all of, instead of just having it in some so the staff and students do not have to suffer in the heat. Scott …show more content…

The reason that Sam feels this way is because in the classes he doesn’t have air conditioning in, he almost always feels a “heat wave” when he walks through the door, making him distracted from everything else. There have been other occasions when Sam has been in a class with no air conditioning, he became “drenched in sweat and was uncomfortable”. Sam wishes that all of our classrooms at Newport Harbor could have air conditioning in them.
According to a New York Times article called “Schools Are Not Cool” written by Sara Mosle said that “students wilted over desks” in the heat distracting them and making it so they could not learn as well as they could when there is air conditioning. Sara also said that life become “unpleasant for students and teachers” when it is hot meaning that the heat will make the students and teachers day terrible, making them not concentrate on learning.
Also according to another New York Times article called “Heat Wave Sizzles: The Schools” written by Lynette Holloway said that some students “press” there forehead against a water bottle just to keep their head cool. Holloway also said she pointes three fans in the direction of the students that are “sprawling” in the

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