The only consideration he has here, is that their drink containers aren't too large, now that would surly be very bad for them! New York, You deserve what you get, you learned nothing from Patterson Now experience Bloomberg ! !

I am impressed that they still are in school. School has been out for over a week where I live. When I went to school we went as long as NYC, the schools weren't air conditioned and I had to wear a uniform with a tie. No baggy shorts, no sleeveless shirts, no flip flops, etc etc etc.

They'd be safe if they could have an x-tra large big-gulp.

I say turn off the air conditioning at 260 Broadway until the kids are out of class. Then we'll see what hizzonor says.

I think that mofo mayor should have to attend one of these 110-degree classrooms in support of the classes taking tests! Then we'll see if there is anything "unsafe" about it!

Mayors are a joke anywhere in this country ... always on some power trip.

Oh, the poor students - how unfortunate they have to take a test in 110 - degree heat, oh the horror! Meanwhile, their colleagues in Libya get to take tests in 130 degree heat...

The mayor has little to do with the fact that students are still in school in the latter part of June.New York State students are in school until June 22 or later because of the NYS Regents exams. I took these exams as far back as the 1960's. it was hot then, but that is NOT a reason for these exams to still be given in the latter part of June 50 years later. My parents walked five or miles to school in the 20's, but that did not mean I had to do so when I was a student.

Furthermore, most teachers would tell you that NYS Regents exams stifle learning and add to the "teach to the test mentality" of our schools. I taught in an academically elite high school for nearly thirty years. My students did well on the English Regents for many years. The test was changed approx 11 years ago to a two day test and two years ago back to a one day test. Not because student' skills were back to what the had been years ago, but because finances made it difficult for the state and the schools to administer a two day test. If New York State parents, teachers, admnistrators and students want a change in test timing, as well as design, Bloomberg is NOT the man you need to address your concerns to.

Mr Bloomberg, when was the last time you endured the heat and humidity without airconditioning?????????

Must be a long time, because you would sing a different tune......... What a jerk!!!!!!!

Wake up New York City and get rid of this jerk.

*disgusted*

If we are gonna act like these tests are valid ways of measuring student progress, how can you possibly allow for an outside circumstance like 110 degree heat to effect the scores, which it most certainly will. It completely invalidates the results of the test. So not only are they an enormous waste of money, time, and resources, but they are now inaccurate as well.

If there was a power outage on 79th St., between 5th and Madison Aves., the head of Con Ed would be immediately fired...

I bet this POS Bloomberg has his air in his office on though.

I went to school here (queens then bronx) from grades K through 12. I don't recall having air conditioning EVER.

Bloomberg strikes again. You know, I think he is having mental problems. Like maybe a complete and total mental breakdown and loss of reality. First he decided that nobody in New York should be allowed to drink soda from large containers. This was his (insane) attempt to attack the problem of obesity in New York. Now he thinks is is OK for students to be in schools with no air conditioning during a record setting heatwave. This is America. We have and use air conditioning during the hot summer months. Somebody posted a comment here about children in Libya taking tests in 130 degree heat. That's Libya. Not America. Those people in Libya don't know anything about air conditioning. You can't miss what you've never had. I do not live in NYC, nor would I. But I would certainly hope that when the vote comes around again that the residents of NYC would vote for "change." Has Bloomberg gone through a psychological evaluation lately. I think he needs to. I wonder if his kids took tests in schools with no air conditioning. Anybody else wonder about that. What is he worth? Twenty-two billion with a "B"?

I can only imagine how much that city stinks in that kind of heat. It was nauseating when I visited and the temps were in the 60s...

Bloomberg wants this to happen, he wants the public school scores to fall so he can close them. Bloomberg is driving the dismantle public education train by putting money into out-of-state elections to pass student "Voucher" bills for public school students to leave public schools such as Louisiana. He sent Kira Orange- Jones and John White to Louisiana, paid for their elections and now, they voted for Bobby Jindal's "voucher" bills, which have been proven "ineffective" from the pilot voucher scores. These "vouchers" in Louisiana, only allow students to leave public schools rated "c" and below, and go into private religious schools that have a Catholic majority. It is a mess and Bloomberg wants to use the same platform for New York. Louisiana carried the experiment paid by Bloomberg. Hope Bloomberg gets voted out next time!

It sounds to me like the honorable??mayor has had his brains cooked in too much sun and heat.over the years. His lack of concern for the health and comfort of students is a bit disconcerting. Since when does taking a test or learning in a school that is dangerously hot become one of lifes tests? A students' ability to learn and their ensuing test results can also be affected by the ability -or lack of in this case- to cope with extreme heat and other factors. It is looking more and more as though His Honor???needs to be recalled or elected back out office. It is no surprise the so many people are getting disguted with the holier than thou career politicians.

Why not break down and air-condition the classrooms? With global warming, this situation will likely get worse and worse.

Sir -its not being indoors taking the test that might be unhealthy its the GETTING THERE to take the damn thing. There is an Ozone alert - many of our kids have asthma - not to mention ever try to concentrate during the extreme heat. Please!!

Talk about setting kids up to fail. Talk about being out of touch......

"Once their safety, their health is OK, yes, they have to take the test," he added. "That's what life is all about. If they can't pass these tests, they're not going to pass life's tests and then they are really going to be in trouble."

Isn't that just SPECIAL! Coming from someone who works in an air-conditioned office, rides in a chafeured (sp) vehicle that is air conditioned, has everyone do his "studies" for him so that he can say that New York is safe (along the lines of constructive book-keeping), and to top it off he is so out of touch with reality that he thinks that the tests you pass of fail in high school actually reflect on whether you will succeed in life!

What a crock of s*it coming from another out of touch politician. Sir (and I use that term loosely), you need to get out in public more and stop relying on the "Yes men and women" that surround you.

Go sit in their classroom during the heat of the day and then you can have an opinion!

Nobody who has at his or her disposal an amount anywhere near twenty-two billion dollars has any concept of what life is like for the average working person in this country. He doesn't have to worry about whether the car will break down this month and whether he will have the money to have it fixed. Or if the roof will need repairing. Or if his wife or kids get sick and whether or not the insurance company will pay for their care and, if the insurance company pays, where he is going to come up with the 10% or 20% that his insurance won't pay. This man should NEVER have been voted into office. He cannot truly represent the residents of the city of New York because he has no idea what life is like for them.

Bloomberg is a freaking idiot and typical rich jackass. Why put up with his arrogance? Dump him now. You can't afford him and send Ray Kelley along with him. Bring heatwave signs everywhere he goes that say, if we dump you, we can air condition all our schools.

I don't understand why Americans keep electing people who sneer at you, talk down to you, do nothing to enrich your life or family or future. Then have the nerve to tell you to shutup about it. Americans revere rich people and will refuse to look at the person behind the money or how they get and keep it. It is a fallacy that rich people will help you or guide you to become rich. They keep enriching themselves at our expense and are blatant about it. Grow up, USA.

"I don't know quite how to answer your question," he said. "Life is full of challenges, and we don't have everything we want. We can't afford everything we want. And I suspect if you talk to everyone in this room, not one of them went to a school where they had air conditioning."

WTF!! Typical Bloombutt comment from a power hungry shark, a taker and not a giver. Typical 1%'r, sociopathic family punks who beget even more sociopathic punks. They all look alike......

We didnt have AC where I went to High School, or college either. HS in Indiana and college in Texas. I took summer school every year. Sitting in a classroom in the middle of a Texas summer with 115 degree heat was not uncommon. If you were lucky, you could score one of the big floor fans, but often they were so loud, the teachers wouldnt let us turn them on. I do not have AC in my house today. Get used to it. pussies