West Jackson Primary occupies a 50-year-old one-story brick building that has a yard full of new playground equipment and a classroom air-conditioning system that has been renovated.
Children spend a third of their day in the classroom, where air pollution levels may differ substantially from those outdoors due to specific indoor sources.
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Ever since the first elementary school teacher rolled the first television set into the first classroom to air the first course offering from "educational television," there's been the hope and the promise that technology would revolutionize the way teaching and learning would be done.
Angela Black, Long Beach... To the editor: Where else in California can you find a student sweating in a classroom without air conditioning and who has no textbook to use and no classes assigned for the rest of the day, but is holding an iPad without proper curriculum software?
Her son's classroom is air-conditioned, and the school nurse is informed about his treatments.
He now lives in a dorm room and teaches summer school in a classroom without air-conditioning in the South Bronx, training to earn $35,000 a year.
One drew a split image of happy students in a classroom with air-conditioning, and themselves sweating and passed out on the floor with X's over their eyes.
So he would rather have been touring the United States Marine Corps base in North Carolina where his brother serves than sitting in a classroom without air-conditioning yesterday trying to solve word problems.
