It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Oh wait, no it’s not. But it sure feels like Christmas inside FHS. “Frosty wouldn’t melt in here, although he might be able to wear shorts!” said Miss Ross, who freezes daily. Seeing as though her room is probably the one most affected by the drastic cold, along with Mrs. Giammaria and Mr. Wilson’s rooms, Miss Ross has had to move classes on some days into the auditorium because the temperature can get simply too unbearable. According to Mrs. Giammaria, her classroom averages about fifty-five to fifty-eight degrees every morning. Not only is waking up in a freezing classroom unpleasant, working with the technology that is pushed so fervently in our school is practically unbearable; typing with cold fingers usually doesn’t allow for a lot of progress in your work. When the school was renovated back in 2000, two major components of the school were not replaced: windows and the heating system. Standing next to any window in the building for a few seconds is an easy enough test to clearly determine that air moves freely through them. According to Mr. Delp, the heating system is on a computerized schedule, which can be disrupted. For instance, at daylight-saving time, the heating system is off by an hour. Dr. Staub said that “we need to be efficient [when it comes to our heating system.]” More than thousands of dollars have gone into heating our school, but due to faulty insulation, the money could be spent on better things, say, renovating the windows and heating. “I hope, since it’s my last year, I don’t retire with frostbite,” said Miss Ross. Cold temperatures are not just a matter of comfort. Learning, which does seem to be the purpose of dragging ourselves out of bed every morning, is being disrupted. Everyone is more focused on keeping warm than who the Wife of Bath is in Chaucer. Action needs to be taken, not just for the toasty warm feeling that would come from heat, but in order to set the environment back to that of a school, instead of an igloo. As much as we all like seeing our breath during the winter, I’d much rather do that outside than when I’m sitting and shivering in class. But most importantly, none of us want Miss Ross to retire with frost bite!