Tick, tock, drip, drop. It’s first hour, my hair’s still wet from my morning shower. My eyelids still feel heavy, and as I stare strong at the questions on my unit test, drips of sweat are soaking my paper. My mind is scrambled, and I can’t focus as the class air begins to make it feels as if I’m wearing a mile of sweaters. Class is almost over but the distracting heat almost strangles me clueless and only wrong answers wiggles its way through my pencil.

I find having a hot/cold room very bad. I definitely see a change in attitude and effort in others and myself when there is a problem with temperature. It is important to keep rooms at room temperature because as school is meant to be a learning environment, it is hard to learn when it is too hot or too cold. Though of the two, a hot or cold room, one is more of a problem — hot.

Having a hot room tends to be more of a problem because not only does it distract learning, but it also causes other things like body orders and headaches to pop up. Sometimes forgetting to put on deodorant isn’t a problem, as long as you aren’t sweating, it’s not an issue but for those students who forgot to put some on or forgot to bring extra, this can be very embarrassing or distracting to others. Headaches seem to sprout from me when I’m stressed making me warm. Adding on the hot temperature can almost give me terrible migraines.  

Over/under-heated rooms have become a big problem for students at Monroe High. I, as a MHS student, have found myself leaving a class to walk around in order to warm myself back up when it’s too cold, or having classes moved to irregular classrooms when it’s too hot for both the teachers and students. This has led me to the conclusion that the biggest distraction from my education is supplied from the schools lack of control of its own temperature.