Did you have air conditioning at school from K-12?

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March 12, 2026, 03:39 AM

honestlou

Did you have air conditioning at school from K-12?

In south Louisiana, so yes. Had indoor plumbing too.

March 12, 2026, 04:46 AM

Captain Morgan

No AC, nor we allowed to wear shorts. The only thing w had was opened windows that hardly did anything.

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March 12, 2026, 04:54 AM

Black92LX

No A/C until Sophomore year of High School in 1999.
Sophomore year we started in a brand new building.

I graduated in 2001 and when I went to college my dorm for freshman and sophomore years did not have A/C either.
Only a few of the classroom buildings had A/C.

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March 12, 2026, 04:56 AM

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Yes and no. In K-8, the school I went to, K, 3, 4, and 5 had them since K was a separate building, and 3-5 were in trailers since the school grew too big too fast to add on. Got to high school and the only rooms with a/c was the computer room.

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March 12, 2026, 07:46 AM

dking271

Most of my K through 12 was in Connecticut and had no AC with the exception of 6th grade which was in Pennsylvania which did have AC. The only two rooms with AC in HS were the teacher’s lounge and the senior lounge. This was all through the 70s and 80s.

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March 12, 2026, 08:09 AM

SPWAMike0317

I grew up in eastern PA, the Lehigh Valley. There was no air conditioning in any school I attended. Lack of AC was not a problem. All of the schools had functional windows. I do not recall being uncomfortably hot at any point.

Then again, my childhood home didn't have AC. Somehow I survived.

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March 12, 2026, 08:17 AM

MikeinNC

I grew up in Tampa, we didn’t have AC in elementary school. 75-80
Then I went to a private school for middle school 6-9th and they did.
When I got into the senior high school nearby ,they had had AC since when my big brother graduated in 85.
I moved to the mountains in western NC in the middle of my sophomore year December of 85 and they didn’t have AC. Not sure when they got it but the kids do now.

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March 12, 2026, 08:19 AM

mdblanton

Yes - Mississippi gets a bit hot/humid

. My grandparents, however, never had AC and visiting them during the summers took some getting used to.

March 12, 2026, 08:23 AM

chellim1

I went to a parochial grade school without AC.
No AC in high school either, except for in the library which was a new add-on building.
One of the old Jesuits put a large, slow moving ceiling fan in his classroom which made a big difference.

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March 12, 2026, 08:24 AM

shkuhn

Only in the middle school. The elementary and high school did not and I graduated in the early 2000’s

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March 12, 2026, 09:07 AM

architect

Not in elementary school. The building where I went to grades 1-3 (built in the early 50's, and now a school administrative building) is still does not have central A/C, but almost every window has a window unit in it.

The school I went to in Tehran for grades 4-6 didn't have it either. Some days were hot enough that classes were moved outside, but I don't recall ever being sent home.

My high school, massively updated in 1967 did have A/C added at that time, somewhat before most homes were so equipped in my suburb.

March 12, 2026, 09:12 AM

P250UA5

1991-2004 in SE TX.
Yes, but our buses didn't

All of my cars have had AC as well, except the Midget.

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March 12, 2026, 09:28 AM

Fly-Sig

No, not even in college. As someone else said, A/C was even rare in cars. It was an expensive option.

March 12, 2026, 09:34 AM

Tejas421

Not until sophomore year of high school in Louisiana when we moved to a new building. My freshman college dorm in Atlanta was not air conditioned.