Automatic thermostat in geometry and computer science teacher Steven Crow’s class. Photo courtesy of editor Sage Meeks.

  Students at San Luis Obispo High School are far too familiar with the feeling of AC blowing when it’s fifty degrees out and heat blowing anytime it’s over eighty.

  I for one have never liked starting school in August and ending in July. I understand the want for summer and warm days to relax but it just makes school so much harder. The sun sets right after school so there’s nothing to do and while you’re at school it’s raining, cold, and depressing, not the atmosphere I want to learn in. 

  “It’s never warm, even with a jacket on it’s too cold. Somehow it feels like the classrooms and halls are colder than it is outside,” said junior Levi Ammerman.

  I’d much prefer having warm days of school than hanging out with friends during summer rather than two months of watching TV and playing video games while schedules collide and everyone is on vacation.

  A warm environment is always just more comfortable than a cold one which makes it just that much harder to focus in class. Not only am I cold, but everyone else is too so students complain to each other about it, distracting each other, our hands are freezing and go numb from typing and writing essays or notes all day making each keypress or letter a little harder as you go on. 

  “I prefer to work in warmer environments, it just makes focusing easier,” said junior Kieth Kania.  

It’s just not fun and if learning isn’t fun we aren’t paying attention just dreading our next class and watching the clock counting down the seconds until 3:40.

  As we come out of winter and head into spring I at least hope it warms up so we all don’t have to freeze in math class.