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‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by Biscuitt@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] domusaltera@piefed.social 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No doubt some schools minister will come out and say that "school is so important and missing even one day can damage a child's future irreparably". They did it with Covid and they'll do it again and it has nothing to do with the children. They just don't want parents to have to miss work because they're looking after their kids. They depend on the worker bees never stopping for any reason.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago (1 children)

The children have been marinating in repeated Covid infections now for 5 years after restrictions were lifted and one of the consequences of Long Covid is heat intolerance. Now we are subjecting them to constant excessive and potentially lethal heat in classrooms that often don't even have opening windows let alone Air Conditioning. They really don't care if the children survive at all, just that the parents are forced to work so the billionaires can get a bit richer and own ever more of everything.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 6 minutes ago

Always pushing the "school is the best place for your child" BS

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

We know this is the norm for summer now and only going to get worse. We can't rebuilt all our buildings for this new climate, but we can retrofit active cooling. We need a nation program of ACs for hospitals and schools. 25 years is a target far to far into the future.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No point wasting money on Aircon when they could install heat pumps instead.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 6 points 1 hour ago

Aircon is an air to air heatpump. Normally they can run in either direction.