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‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms
(www.theguardian.com)
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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.
Always pushing the "school is the best place for your child" BS