High Gas Prices Could Mean Cold Classrooms and Canceled Trips
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School districts are considering dramatic steps as four-day weeks, colder classrooms and fewer field trips to deal with high energy costs this winter. While high energy costs will affect many households, some school districts may pay double or more gas and heat bills.
Plymouth school district in Massachusetts reported that it will likely go more than $600,000 over budget this year. The superintendent recommended that staff and students ask for warm sweaters for Christmas. He was only half-kidding, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported.
Last year, Abington School District in North Carolina spent $7,000 on gasoline. This year it expects to pay $18,000.
Conservation Efforts
Homeowners across America have been advised to dial down the thermostat and check their doors and windows for insulation. Big drafty drafty schools must do the same.
One school district in Arlington, Virginia plans to lower classroom temperatures as far as comfort permits, and many other schools in surrounding districts have said they will begin covering their windows with plastic sheeting to lessen the draft.
In order to save on gas, Virginia's Chesterfield County Schools canceled most field trips and athletic team competitions and will send only the pep band, not the full band, to away games.
Some students said they are disappointed with the changes.
Derek Wasnock of Midlothian, Virginia is unhappy the annual sixth grade science field trip to Busch Gardens for the spring was canceled. "It is something they look forward to, and now they can't because of gas prices," says one Chesterfield County parent. But others understand that schools are under intense pressure. "The things that are the most important are the basics," Ashby Clore of Midlothian told the Richmond Times Dispatch. "A field trip is nice, but heat is necessary.
The Greencastle-Antrim School District in Greencastle, PA considered cancelling classes for the month of January when heat is most expensive and weather is its coldest, but then schools would not meet the state required 180 class days.
Schools in Jackson County, KY will shorten the school week to four days, The Record Herald reported.
Madeira, an Ohio district, is working to consolidate bus routes, making students wait longer, but reducing the number of high school buses from 175 to 100 and saving over 1500 miles of travel daily.
"I think that was needed, because the high school buses are not even half-full most of the time," Madeira PTA President Candy Hopewell told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "I think priorities should be saving taxpayers money because I don't think they've done that up until now."
Paying Bills
Even with these conservation measures, questions of how to pay bills loom over the heads of many administrators.
The cost of heating schools could fall to the taxpayers, forcing residents to pay more to heat both their homes and their local schools.
Avon, Massachusetts District Superintendent Margaret Fierswyck said she may have to call a special town meeting to ask for more funds.
Officials in St. Louis, MO said their office heating bill will probably be an extra $200,000, but they will wait to see how exactly how much before deciding which programs to cut.
Plymouth residents are waiting to see if their new "green" school -- an energy-efficient building with solar panels and motion-sensor lights that shut off to save electricity -- is the antidote to unpredictable fuel prices.
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