I didn’t have A/C at school until 6th grade (middle school). That would have been the fall of ‘83. I lived on the edge of corn fields 40 miles west of Chicago so summers could get warm and humid. One of my friends graduated at West Aurora High School in ‘89 and never had A/C. Aurora was a town of just over 80,000 at the time. She even took a few summer classes. She said it was miserable.

Did you sweat through school?

I did not until I was moved into a newly built Junior High School. This would have been in 1970. Oh, it was cold in the winter in those old buildings.

No A/C through graduating high school.
No schools around here had it back in the 60's.

On really hot days, they let us loosen our ties and unfasten the top button of our dress shirt.

Nope.

K-12 nope, did not have it in the buses either. I went to school in the Midwest where it got hot in the summer.

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No schools around here had it back in the 60's

I’m from a little northwest of Bob, maybe 45 minutes, and around the some era. Graduated in’71 and no A/C in any schools I attended or at home for that matter. No A/C in most cars either.
Very cold in the winter but very hot in the summer.
A/C was a wonderful invention.

Not everywhere but the gym, library, and Cafeteria had AC

In the Army-run elementary schools in France in the late 1950s, the heat was from a wood stove.

Yes. The teachers would open the big wooden windows and let the outside air condition us.

Ha, ha, “you’re killing me smalls”. No, not even sorta in grade school it seemed the windows would open in theory, but they just opened a wing up high. It was named after President Garfield if that is a clue to the age. High School had plenty of useful windows but it was rare a real breeze made it into the rooms due to the design. Big fans, noisy as hell, were state of the art HVAC.

Found AC at college in Southern Illinois University classrooms. The dorms had some queer cold water system in the heating radiators, cool but didn’t address the humidity.

But like those on the Oregon Trail we just didn’t know any better.

Nope. In HS, last class of the day, the mean Spanish teacher would regularly tell us how bad we smelled.

Nope, first AC I ever experienced was as college freshman. No AC at parent's SoCal home either.

no a/c until college. i graduated high school in 1992.

i had to walk uphills 20 miles both ways in snow with no shoes on while juggling two jobs just to get to school, I was 9!

Hahahaha!
Pussies...
(product of the 50s...)

No, I don't think AC wasn't invented when I was in school.

Yes! I grew up in Daytona Beach, so my elementary, junior high, and senior high schools all had A/C, and I’m damn glad of it! I don’t really remember Kindergarten, but it was an old school on the beachside, so probably had jalousie windows and a nice ocean breeze. Besides, as a kindergartner I didn’t sweat (much).

I had it all throughout my schooling I did my schooling in Southern California and graduated high school in 2005. Let’s just say home was hotter than school, my dad rarely ran our home’s AC. I spend a bit on electricity each month running my AC year-round, makes life much more comfy.

ETA I don’t even think the windows on my schools opened.

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Originally posted by Ogie:
Yes. The teachers would open the big wooden windows and let the outside air condition us.

Yup.

Going to school in AZ, AC was a requirement if you wanted to survive an 8-9 hr day.
The crappy “temporary classrooms” in high school were just barely able to handle the workload of a bunch of sweaty clowns in the afternoon. It’s freaking HOT in Phx!

No AC.