Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 05, 2024

There you go Lad, get some plum smugglers…..okay, grape smugglers.

When I was in junior high, we had no air conditioning. The lights were turned off and the doors and windows opened. It was especially hot in the bungalows. But we survived.

Seems like people Caulfield’s age in speedos would be pretty ho-hum for old folks, Now if the TEACHERS were in speedos, maybe there’d be some push back.

Mark Spitz won 7 Gold Medals in swimming in 8 days at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. He set a world record in each event.

No A/C in any school I went to. We lived thru it, but, I learned I hated any temp’ over 75° & it’s only worse now that I’m a Senior Citizen.

Is this a Mark Spitz reference?

Dream on, Kid. That’s about as likely as getting a/c before you graduate.

A/C costs money, and people would much rather kids swelter than pay more school tax.

Probably not the best Olympics to reference with current situation in Gaza.

Um…how about this: Close school for the SUMMER!!

Oh man, those divers… bad memories…

The need for central A/C in the U.S. is somewhat regional. Plus I’m not sure that many care about “inconvenienced” students.

I wen

I went through school in Maine, never had that problem.

Mark Spitz?

In my school up in Michigan, it was the cold winters that were the problems. Also height of the so-called “energy crisis” when we were all supposed to keep the thermostat down to 68 for fear the world would come to an end. So the thermostats were turned down and locked. Our teachers would just send a student outside to gather a snowball which we’d then put on the thermostat to fool the thermostat and get the heat going.

I graduated high school in 1969 in Houston, Texas and we didn’t have air conditioning. We had fans and windows that would actually open, along with transoms that opened into the hallway to allow cross ventilation. The last day of school was the first Friday in June unless May ended on a Friday or the weekend. On really hot days we were allowed to wear long pants and short sleeve shirts. Shorts and tee shirts were only allowed in gym class and girls skirts were required to be less than the width of a dollar bill from the floor when they were kneeling, and yes, they were checked by the Dean of Girls if she thought they were too short.

My high school didn’t have air-conditioning. I remember sitting in biology class one June, which was still part of the school year back then, where the windows faced to the west. Lining the counters were a bunch of aquariums with different kind of fish in them. It was so hot from the sun in the afternoon. I remember almost falling asleep while daydreaming I could jump into the aquarium.

One year in high school without AC it hit 111ºF. During PE we were just handed swim suits and told to go float in the pool.