{"id":3002,"date":"2018-11-19T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T21:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:17:17","slug":"we-didnt-start-the-fire-but-it-felt-like-we-were-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"We didn’t start the fire, but it felt like we were in one"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Staff
\n<\/strong>The Blue & White
\nGrand Rapids Catholic Central
\n1st Place
\nDivision MS, News Writing
\nEditorial<\/p>\n

September 21-26 brought state record high temperatures, and while students at several local public schools enjoyed half days to \u201cbeat the heat,\u201d we Catholic Central students sweated through full days of misery, physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

With temperatures high and morale low, we sat through classes with our heads slumped and clothes stuck to our sweaty skin.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo hot to learn anything,\u201d we complained.<\/p>\n

But we did learn, though. We learned a lot.<\/p>\n

We learned that it is possible to fit your entire head under the drinking fountain to wash the day\u2019s grime and perspiration off our foreheads. We know because we saw a freshman do it.<\/p>\n

We learned that Amazon sells fans that plug into iPad-charging ports. We signed up for Amazon Prime free trials to rush the fans to us, hoping for some much needed, yet small relief.<\/p>\n

We learned that heat makes for crabby students. We know that because said crabby students turned quickly on normally adored administrators when no half days were announced.<\/p>\n

We learned that a Yeti mug can keep ice cream frozen until sixth hour. We know that because one of our staff members rushed to D&W Thursday night to buy a carton of mint chip to get her through Friday\u2019s heat.<\/p>\n

We learned that popsicles given to us on the first floor melt before making it back up to the fourth floor. The high-fructose puddles in the stairwell gave evidence of that.<\/p>\n

We learned that cold classrooms are way better than hot ones. You can add layer upon layer when you are cold, but once the sweating starts, it never stops. (Until you take a drinking fountain shower, of course.)<\/p>\n

We learned that classroom fans are grounds for warfare. The fallen ones, fighting for a seat near one, are our witnesses.<\/p>\n

We learned that Mr. Koss\u2019 heavenly room can feel like hell when reaching 94 degrees, which it did on Friday, as measured by Dr. Molloseau\u2019s temperature probe halfway through the day. (He won for the hottest room in the school, by the way.)<\/p>\n

Yes, we learned a lot on those full days of school, but probably not anything from any teacher\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n

What it boils down to (pun intended) is that, rather than students succeeding at \u201cbeating the heat,\u201d it beat us. But like they say, what doesn\u2019t melt you only makes you smarter–or something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Staff The Blue & White Grand Rapids Catholic Central 1st Place Division MS, News Writing Editorial September 21-26 brought state record high temperatures, and while students at several local public schools enjoyed half days to \u201cbeat the heat,\u201d we Catholic Central students sweated through full days of misery, physically and mentally. With temperatures high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,44],"tags":[151,24],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nw","category-editorial-nw","tag-2017-18","tag-divisionms","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jaimie Bozack","author_link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?author=7"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6K0n6-Mq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}