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twavelingteacher
Joined: 26 Jun 2007
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:53 am Post subject: is your classroom cold? |
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| my classroom is cold and the school keeps all the classrooms really cold. i guess they are trying to save on the heat bill. how are your classrooms? public school... |
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LateBloomer
Joined: 06 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Many public schools, including mine, have the policy of not turning the heat on until the temperature drops to one degree below freezing. Then be prepared for the heat to be on with many windows open--so it will be hot in some areas and cold in others.
Also, if you have to be there during winter break, make sure you have heaters for where you will be trying to "work". Many schools don't turn the heat on during that time either--except in places like the administration office. |
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twavelingteacher
Joined: 26 Jun 2007
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| you've got to be kidding me. you mean i will be working in the cold all winter? this seems really weird. what about the kids? cold kids? cold teachers? wow. |
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LateBloomer
Joined: 06 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| Teachers and kids wear coats inside. I bought a special coat for to wear in school last year. |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Yes..very cold! I've asked my coteacher about it and apparently there was a fire a few months ago and they are afraid of another one. I think it's bullocks and they are just cheap. For the open class we just did, I told to please turn on the heat because I didn't want to teach with my coat on (like I usually do). I'm very far up north..and I've been teaching with my coat, scarf, and gloves on. I look like a polar bear when I teach  Public school as well.. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| thanks for reminding me! i have to remember to tell my co-teacher that i need the heating on in both the english zone and my office this winter break.... maybe they won't want me to come in everyday when i'm not teaching, considering the cost |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| one degree below freezing |
Consider yourself lucky. My school's policy is not to turn the heat on until November 15, regardless of the temperature. The students' dorm is included in this policy, so about half of them have colds and I caught my cold from them last week.
We have the old-fashioned steam radiators, which heat the rooms up just fine in the morning, until the admin turns off the steam at noon. Classrooms are cold in the afternoon. |
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MarionG
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I work in a hogwon. Last winter it was unblievably cold - teachers were working in coats, gloves, mittens and hats. Of course the kids were similarly dressed. The director sat in her office with a heater pumping warm air. The big heater, for the school - we were told we could turn it on any time, which we did, but it would be turned off right away. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn, my classrooms are smoking hot. I'm sweating up a storm in there (no heat it's just hot) and wish they would turn the a/c back on. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
We have the old-fashioned steam radiators, which heat the rooms up just fine in the morning, until the admin turns off the steam at noon. Classrooms are cold in the afternoon. |
Old fashion? I taught in high school where they used wood or modified coal (yong-tun bricks) in a stove set in the middle of of the classroom with the stove pipe extending across the room and out a window. The girls would keep their lunch boxes warm by placing them on top next to the kettle.
No joke, winter of 97/98. |
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