This is just one example of why PPEL funding is so important!! Vote YES next Tuesday to continue funding important projects like this one in our aging schools! The best part – it won’t raise your taxes!!

Great memories in that gym!

Looks great!

Looks very nice

Very nice

unfortunately other decisions and votes leave a bad taste and affect this also.

Kendra Lindeman Holland – WOW!!!!!!

Nice!

I’m happy to see the new locker room. As a grandmother to an athlete, and one who is handicapped, I’d really appreciate handicapped accessible facilities for fans. It’s a nightmare for me to attend Kingston events.

That awesome! Now as a Jefferson Student it’d be amazing if we looked into ADA compliance in the preforming Arts.

Are there handicap players that play football?

great.

I work in an elementary school where the ac currently isn’t working in parts of our building I can assure you all we all want to be at school teaching the kids but when it is this hot it’s not possible not all of the buildings can keep up with the heat so for all you complaining about school being let out early why don’t you come walk some of the halls in the buildings that the ac isn’t working , having early outs isn’t ideal for anyone it messes with the kids schedules and throws everyone off , I personally want to thank crcsd for putting staff and kids first!

Meanwhile in Davenport my daughter sits m in an 117yo old high school on these extreme heat days where a/c is sketchy at best. I’d never balk at a school district for looking out for the safety and best interest of the kids.

These are not easy decisions to have to make. Thank you all for keeping everyone safe, and giving families plenty of notice so as to make other arrangements!

This is why we should start after labor day.

Keeping kids home now is a big deal because of the new attendance law. However all students have to attend so many hours of school per iowa law so they either get a few hours in now or go longer in June when it also could be crazy hot. No one will ever be happy with anything or any decisions the school makes

This is ridiculous. By the time we get the kids to school, we have to turn right back around and go get them. Some of us don’t have gas money to be sitting around or driving around for no good reason. Just cancel.

I thought an option for a partial day of classes at home on days like this was going to become a regular thing after COVID

Don't most schools have air conditioning? We never got early dismissal because of heat when I was in school.

I’m curious why they can’t do remote learning via chrome books like during Covid?

Yet Marion had school all day!

Oh I thought y’all had an open door policy… or is that just the elementary school?

Only people complaining are the shit parents or the people with no kids

Yet Marion had school all day

Any comment about how a 5 year old girl went missing from Pierce and was dropped off by a random stranger? www.facebook.com/theiowastandard/videos/1739580830114314/

cbs2iowa.com/news/local/dad-tells-crcsd-his-5-year-old-left-school-unnoticed-monday-morning

Ik the school doesn’t make the laws but situations like this are really stressful for parents. It’s hard for working parents to find ways to get their children home and they can’t just let their kids stay home anymore on days like this.

Is there anything the school does that the parents don't complain about? "Oh, it was so hot in the school. Your child suffered from heat exhaustion." You would be upset about that too. I know it is hard for some parents, and I get it! But the schools want to keep your child safe.

This is likely for the sake of students who walk or ride the bus to and from school. Most busses do not have ventilation systems and there's an incredibly high risk of heat-related illnesses in that situation.

Thank you for trying to make the best decision with all the school situations that you are dealing with. Parents will always complain. There are 30 some schools in this district.

Thanks for making the tough calls! Always going to be folks upset about something.

They shouldn't start till after Labor Day, like Minnesota!!! They have worse winter weather there and very rarely call school!!!! Just saying it would alleviate some of the hot weather issues maybe…

Contrary to most, yes please send my child home. Send her home every. single. chance. you get. She coughed? Send her home. Her nose is running? I’ll take her thanks. It’s hot outside? Home it is. Thank you. Bye. 👋 ✌️

For parents of kiddos with Kirkwood classes, I reached out to our principal and students should attend their full Kirkwood class and they will be excused from any other class they miss in the morning. (If your student has a morning Kirkwood class).

These schools need to be equipped with air. I mean it’s 2024. There’s really no excuse.

Just cancel. I really do not care if we make up days. 3 hours does not provide any education to the kids. Education comes 1st! This go 3 hours and it counts is ridiculous. Put the kids and education 1st. It becomes clearer and clearer why we vote no for the bond.

Maybe you should have just started school a couple weeks later

This is complete BS 1st this is not easy for us parents to come up with a plan for a sitter even with 12 hr notice 2nd there should be no reason the kids aren't in school all Day (schools should have air) plus some kiddos may be going home to NO air 3rd the kids that walk, like my son still have to walk at least at the normal end of the day I could have picked him up as am sure most parents could have or at least found someone close to help 4th heavens forbids you keep them home in this crap you will have to meet with the principal and then an attorney bc they missed too much school 5th your now sending kids home who would have gotten breakfast and lunch but now they will get both within an hour of each other Some days the school makes absolutely no sense and thanks to the new law we as parents can't even keep our children safe by not sending them!

This is why classes shouldn't start until AFTER LABOR DAY! Classrooms are hot and buses are even hotter.

So tax money to upgrade schools with AC and then they still want to send kids home early because of heat. Makes perfect sense… I must be missing something.

What’s the point?!?!

Teach our children well also means safe wellbeing.

I believe all our schools have air.

Are the seniors still having senior sunrise at Kennedy tomorrow?

Glad my youngest is now in highschool, this is always a headache 🤷🏽‍♀️

What a joke waste of time even going

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Sure it's not September 26th? ;)

It is so awesome that Dr. Grover actually gets out in the community for Cedar Rapids Community School District activities and events. Keep up the great work!

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What a great first day!!!

Could we get crossing guards by McKinley in the midst of construction & dangerous traffic in that area, please?????

Thank you for crossing our Trailside Elementary School friends safely! 🛑

She better be careful, I got hit by a biker on B ave today

Why are five year olds allowed to exit your schools unsupervised? If this happened to my child y’all would be answering to God face to face.

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