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Omkara
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Location: USA
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 Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject: Does you school insist on keeping all the curtains closed? |
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| My school always has the curtains closed and the lights on. I insist on opening the curtains, but the students complain. They don't want to feel the warm sunshine on their faces. It's a little thing that makes me nuts. . . |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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They really hate sunlight here.
A good dose of vitamin D is good for you though.
I think all our Ss suffer from cabin-fever. |
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branchsnapper
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| No, they can't afford curtains I guess, but where is all the warm sunshine? It isn't shining on us. |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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In my school, the playground faces the sun, faces south. So, during the daytime, the sun shines right into our school. When it is chilly, the sun coming through a window is quite nice.
I understand keeping the shades down during the summer, when it is hot. But now? |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| If you work in a girls' school, they close the curtains because they don't want to tan. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| You have curtains? I just have windows with holes in the frames |
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I'm no Picasso
Joined: 28 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Yes!
I always raise the blinds and turn as many of the fluorescent lights off as I can, because my classroom is depressing enough as it is, but the first thing every coteacher does when they come into the room is lower the blinds and turn all of the lights on.
And since it's been colder, I do it so that the sun can come in, because it's absolutely freezing in my classroom. A little bit of sun through the glass makes a big difference. Still, blinds down, lights on and then they complain about being cold. |
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MrRogers
Joined: 29 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Omkara:
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| My school always has the curtains closed and the lights on. I insist on opening the curtains, but the students complain. They don't want to feel the warm sunshine on their faces. It's a little thing that makes me nuts. . . |
Yes, me too!
I don't care if they complain, I just order them to open the curtains and then I open a window or two slightly to vent the room... as they have these oil burners in the middle of the classrooms giving off fumes  , besides the curtains and the windows being closed, and the sun shining (when it finally appears - though recently we haven't seen any). I try to maintain control of the environment even if it goes back to the other way after I leave.
I go to nine different schools in the mountains over the course of a week, and the same scenarios are in all of them.
The cultural norm is not to want to tan your skin and be of a certain other class, I think. It also seems to be the cutural norm to wear your coat in a boiling hot room (especially the teachers' rooms) and to be overdramatic about the cold.
Learned behavior.
All the schools' windows face south and none of them really use that to their advantage. I usually go into a rant about solar energy, free heat, and science.
At one point when I had actually had too much of it all in one teachers' room, oil burner and fumes included (everything was getting to me over and over), I went into a fit and lost it...and told them they were all crazy and stormed out slamming the door.  It had been so suffocating in there I couldn't breathe, and yet they all had their coats on. It was like an oven in there. When I went in a couple of hours later, a window was visibly open.
I'm no Picasso:
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I always raise the blinds and turn as many of the fluorescent lights off as I can, because my classroom is depressing enough as it is, but the first thing every coteacher does when they come into the room is lower the blinds and turn all of the lights on.
And since it's been colder, I do it so that the sun can come in, because it's absolutely freezing in my classroom. A little bit of sun through the glass makes a big difference. Still, blinds down, lights on and then they complain about being cold. |
Yes! |
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valkerie
Joined: 02 Mar 2007
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Happy to read stuff that explains this bizarre (IMO) behaviour. My room gets a lot of sun and I only close the blinds if the kids really start squinting. I love the sun and hate using lights for no reason.
In Japan the kids used to open all the windows..alll winter long (and it def felt long). |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Curtains wont help when the sun shines out of their... |
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moosehead
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, same here - sometimes I'm in their classroom, sometimes in our E classroom - I take a moment to open the shades, open a window a bit
flourescent lights bug me no end - I turn them off whenever I can - and just ignore the initial surprise
soon enough they learn to like it - now several of my classes prefer the natural light to the electric ones and respond when I ask - do you need the lights on?? with a resounding "NO!"
ha! |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: USA
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| Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
yeah, same here - sometimes I'm in their classroom, sometimes in our E classroom - I take a moment to open the shades, open a window a bit
flourescent lights bug me no end - I turn them off whenever I can - and just ignore the initial surprise
soon enough they learn to like it - now several of my classes prefer the natural light to the electric ones and respond when I ask - do you need the lights on?? with a resounding "NO!"
ha! |
Good work! you give me hope! |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:19 am Post subject: Re: Does you school insist on keeping all the curtains close |
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| Omkara wrote: |
| My school always has the curtains closed and the lights on. I insist on opening the curtains, but the students complain. They don't want to feel the warm sunshine on their faces. It's a little thing that makes me nuts. . . |
It is a cultural differance. Open the curtains. No questions. No answers. You have to take charge in Korea, or nothing gets done to ones satisfaction. |
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