Cold weather has hit the East Coast — and Baltimore’s Western High School, where students came prepared to learn with their backpacks, pens, homework…and blankets.

A tweet surfaced Wednesday morning showing a classroom filled with students wearing coats, hats, and scarves to keep warm from the below-freezing weather outside and inside their school. Western High did not have heat for more than two weeks.

You can’t tell these kids parents that the heat is on and that’s it’s warm enough in the classrooms. Then turn around and tell them to dress the kids in LAYERS. That obviously means that the heat isn’t working and that it’s not warm enough

A Twitter update Thursday afternoon from the original poster announced that the school did have heat, though students were advised to wear layers. The tweet showed photos of students bundled in blankets and said the heat was blowing at room temperature at best.

Read the full article on a high school without heat by Kei-Sygh Thomas at The 74