one student complained she found it difficult to breathe in temperatures that hit 36 C.

Which is about 97F. Unless they're polar bears that shouldn't be an ordeal, although I'm not sure what the point of the test was.

Let me guess. They're taking place on August 9th.

If their grandparents didn't die of high heat, they'll be fine. Genetics, ya know.

/runs

Or in other words, what ALL schools were like around there until at least the eighties. We opened the windows, used fans, and otherwise made do.

Yeah, pardon me for not crying over it.

/my lawn
//offa it

Ah, I see they weren't allowed to open the windows.

In that case, I take it back, that's just mean... but again, they probably won't die. Just more of a WTF?Why? situation.

Reminds me of the high school I went to. It was built during the 70s so they didn't bother with windows in the name of energry efficiency. This meant that you'd have students wearing shorts in the winter because it was so hot and students wearing coats in the fall because it was so cold. The energy they "saved" was so worth it.

eddyatwork: Reminds me of the high school I went to. It was built during the 70s so they didn't bother with windows in the name of energry efficiency. This meant that you'd have students wearing shorts in the winter because it was so hot and students wearing coats in the fall because it was so cold. The energy they "saved" was so worth it.

No windows?

That's just cruel from a "wanting to see the sun" standpoint, even if your school was built in a place where it's 75F year round!

Most traditional plan Japanese schools are ugly cement and glass buildings built in a "U" shape around a dirt courtyard, with the fourth side of the courtyard having a fence with a gate where you enter the grounds. They're a few stories high.

The buildings have a single hall running down the center (around the "U"), with classrooms on the side facing the courtyard, and long sinks or other utility things on the outside side. So each classroom has doors to the hall on one side, and a full WALL of windows on the courtyard side, which open.

So in the summer, the windows are opened, and at any time you can look down in the courtyard and see other kids doing PE or whatever.

But if the windows were all shut, and the sun is coming in, you'd get greenhouse terribleness, so yeah, that'd be horrid. Crazy experiment.

Unrelated to schools, I visited Indianapolis and right downtown in the center square there's a war memorial you can go up and look around at the city.

It's pretty neat, but the top chamber with the windows, the windows DON'T OPEN. So there's warnings before you get up there that it's hot, and if you have a heart problem or what you shouldn't go in. We went in, and dang, it was total sauna time in there (it was midsummer).

The one good thing was, if you thought it was a hot day before going in, it felt cool and great once you got out of the sun chamber of death!

It's a hell of a lot cooler than 15 million degrees.

Its called "thinning the herd."

missmez: Its called "thinning the herd."

Possibly then leading to "cheaper school lunch" :D

It's pretty effing hot in Japan in October.
I dread to think what it's link in August in an institutional building with the windows closed.

My last flat didn't have air conditioning, and there were a few times I went to sleep on the wooden floor (slightly cooler than the bed) with a portable fan pointing at my face. I would much rather be too cold.

OK, here's the deal. Heat isn't so hard to survive, if you're just looking to survive, and not learn and pay attention. However, I find that I can't pay attention very well or concentrate in excessive heat.

Nagasaki(?)...bomb 'em.

/Heat?

FredaDeStilleto: Let me guess. They're taking place on August 9th.

Came to say this

when i was a child we were so poor that our fan only had one blade, and my mom cut the pockets out of my trousers so i would have something to play with.

It must be a biatch being a kid in Nagasaki having to hear grandpa's stories:

"You think it's hot in school? When I was in school, the classrooms went to 3-4000 degrees Celsius."

FredaDeStilleto: Let me guess. They're taking place on August 9th.

I'm just imagining some cranky old guy who survived the blast as their teacher

"You kids call this hot?! Let me tell you this is nothing compared to 3,900 degrees Celsius. Damned kids and their Air Conditioning and rock and roll."

No amount of fans can help you now.



/link's hot like fission

horonto

Dude, that place is filthy. Those Japanese should learn to pick up after themselves.

There is a sad lack of hot Japanese schoolgirls in this thread

HA!

I can just hear their grandparents: Why in MY day we had to WALK to SCHOOL, with the flesh on our backs bubbling OFF!

DeathRaySanta [TotalFark] Quote 2008-12-13 06:17:13 PM
If their grandparents didn't die of high heat, they'll be fine. Genetics, ya know.

/runs

It's all fun and games until a dozen of them grow to be 50ft tall, and and swim the Pacific looking for American shipping vessels to capsize.

Nagasaki board of education ordered pupils to take part in "hot crassroom test"

FTFY

It's hot as hell in that classroom.

Yeah totally reminds meof my high school days in North Carolina, no A/C, etc. But then again we didn't have the heat wave that swept throught Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 11:02am.

Hot.

Linked.

Hotlinked.

you know what else they do in nagasaki?

You know who else had government institutions that were hot?

Nagasaki board of education ordered pupils to take part in "hot classroom test" in August to see if they could survive summer heat with only five electric fans to cool them off

I see the bolded words and school is the last thing that comes to mind.

St_Francis_P: one student complained she found it difficult to breathe in temperatures that hit 36 C.

Which is about 97F. Unless they're polar bears that shouldn't be an ordeal, although I'm not sure what the point of the test was.

They're trying to inch closer to this:

Having been born in Nagasaki, and having gone to school there during the insane heat... yes, getting a kick out of those replies, etc.

I graduated Southwest Miami High the year before they had the A/C installed.

/not good times

St_Francis_P 2008-12-13 05:44:02 PM one student complained she found it difficult to breathe in temperatures that hit 36 C. Which is about 97F. Unless they're polar bears that shouldn't be an ordeal
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97F isn't a big deal? Where the hell are you from? Death Valley?

itazurakko
Most traditional Japanese schools are ugly cement and glass buildings built in a "U" shape around a dirt courtyard, with the fourth side of the courtyard having a fence with a gate where you enter the grounds. They're a few stories high.

The buildings have a single hall running down the center (around the "U"), with classrooms on the side facing the courtyard, and long sinks or other utility things on the outside side. So each classroom has doors to the hall on one side, and a full WALL of windows on the courtyard side, which open.

So in the summer, the windows are opened, and at any time you can look down in the courtyard and see other kids doing PE or whatever.

But if the windows were all shut, and the sun is coming in, you'd get greenhouse terribleness, so yeah, that'd be horrid. Crazy experiment.

Unrelated to schools, I visited Indianapolis and right downtown in the center square there's a war memorial you can go up and look around at the city.

It's pretty neat, but the top chamber with the windows, the windows DON'T OPEN. So there's warnings before you get up there that it's hot, and if you have a heart problem or what you shouldn't go in. We went in, and dang, it was total sauna time in there (it was midsummer).

The one good thing was, if you thought it was a hot day before going in, it felt cool and great once you got out of the sun chamber of death! built with the last atomic bombing in mind.

/i feel better, how 'bout you?

FredaDeStilleto: Let me guess. They're taking place on August 9th.

Came to say this

I RTFA. Believe it or not, the test took place on August 8th.

/so close

I already posted a Battle Royale picture, moothemagiccow; therefore, my Battle Royale cred surpasses yours.

So there.

So what the farkin' hell did that prove?

jake3988: St_Francis_P 2008-12-13 05:44:02 PM one student complained she found it difficult to breathe in temperatures that hit 36 C. Which is about 97F. Unless they're polar bears that shouldn't be an ordeal
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97F isn't a big deal? Where the hell are you from? Death Valley?

Nope, Virginia. It gets over 100F here in the summer sometimes.

Feh. When did the French move to Japan?

We survived the Texas weather in school with no AC. Our temporary buildings, called "the cottages" by the principal, and referred to as "the shacks" by the students, were WWII wooden barracks. They did have windows, but very few had fans.

Hell, most of our family cars had no AC, and many places of employment only had AC in the offices -- the labor areas were uninsulated and had a few fans at most.

St_Francis_P: one student complained she found it difficult to breathe in temperatures that hit 36 C.

Which is about 97F. Unless they're polar bears that shouldn't be an ordeal, although I'm not sure what the point of the test was.

If its above 78F it starts affecting my concentration because I'm uncomfortable and restless. 97F is just ridiculous, especially when you factor in the humidity they have.

36C is not that big of a deal... but why even do that in the first place? It's not like you'd normally be closing the windows and sealing off the room unless there was nuclear fallo-

Oh.

itazurakko: Or in other words, what ALL schools were like around there until at least the eighties.

try the late 90s before the nanny state started to take over.

ChadManMn: St_Francis_P: one student complained she found it difficult to breathe in temperatures that hit 36 C.

Which is about 97F. Unless they're polar bears that shouldn't be an ordeal, although I'm not sure what the point of the test was.

If its above 78F it starts affecting my concentration because I'm uncomfortable and restless. 97F is just ridiculous, especially when you factor in the humidity they have.

Yeah, it is. Nasty to do much of anything, even sleep. Maybe they're practicing for if and when N Korea drops a nuke on Japan.

"Hot Classroom Test" would be a great band name.

If you RTFA the windows couldn't be opened because the building was undergoing work, some sort of earthquake proofing.

As long as they're not Korean, they won't die of asphyxiation.

cardex: itazurakko: Or in other words, what ALL schools were like around there until at least the eighties.

try the late 90s before the nanny state started to take over.

I want you to spend all day in my classroom here in Bumfark, Oklahoma when it's 110 with 85 percent humidity with no a/c before you get all high and mighty there. I only have two windows that open and the ventilation is nil unless there's a wind of 25-30 miles an hour blowing from the west. Add to that a bunch of hot, stinking teenagers and we'll take bets as to whether you keel over from the heat or the stench first.