Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - While many visited the pool Tuesday in an attempt to keep cool in
near-record breaking heat, some students were spending their first day in summer school - where the rooms are not air conditioned.
The program had 160 water bottles to give out to students, site coordinator Nicole Miller said. "We made a memo to all the counselors: 'make sure everybody is filled up with water bottles, rest regularly and take water breaks.'"
That, she said, is what you do when it's this hot and there's no air conditioning. The program at Roberts School is to do the school work in the morning, when it's a little cooler. Then the Say Yes program works in the afternoon on a variety of activities of the students' choosing. "They're going to be hot outside at their house, inside their house or here at the school, it probably makes no difference to them as long as their doing something fun," said Miller.
They try to keep the kids in the coolest places in the building, and out of the hottest areas like the top floor. They're also "just turning off the lights to keep it a little cooler, going outside some, inside some just keeping variety," said Miller.
It might be harder if you're a high school student going through biology again, but the city schools are doing what they can to put kids in the coolest places possible. Classes are only held for a few hours in the morning, unless they are part of the Say Yes program like they are at Roberts.
