What We Know About the Situation of Classrooms in the Community of Madrid: Temperatures Above 30oC and Heat Shocks
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The comment was very loud. June 2017, full heat wave. It was the summer in which the protests for the high temperatures in schools and public institutes intensified, after several children suffered lipotimias and heat strokes. Health Counselor Jesús Sánchez Martos (PP), said in Cadena SER that “it doesn’t solve everything the air conditioning”: “They can carry fans. Making a fan can be a very important occupational therapy. Like when we were sma…
If your child arrives home dizzy and with a headache after the institute, it is not always for an exam. In the classrooms of the Madrid public education the thermometer exceeds 32 degrees and there is no air conditioning. Families of Madrid, Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha collect minors with heat strokes while the Culture Councillor of the Community of Madrid calls it 'source of inspiration'. The indignation of parents and teachers is not summ…
“The children are very uncomfortable and have difficulty concentrating,” says Alberto, a teacher at a high school in southeastern Madrid. In recent weeks, the classrooms in his center have reached 32 degrees. “I have had a couple of girls who have become dizzy,” he adds. The institute where he teaches students from the second of the ESO to the second of Baccalaureate “is not too old”, but does not have air conditioning or air conditioning measur…
The month of May has left records of heat and June seems to follow a similar path. The high temperatures have also been noticed in the public schools of the Community of Madrid, where there has been a debate about the heat situation in the classrooms. The statements regarding the Culture of Autonomy advisor, Mariano de Paco, have gone viral in networks. De Paco ironized in the Madrid Assembly about the heat denounced by different parties and org…
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