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  • Juggling With EggsJugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 6:59 AM

    ‘But, as the government confirms to me, it sets no maximum temperature limit for schools.

    Otherwise it might have to do something. Instead, it advises schools to open and close doors and windows and minimise heat from equipment: advice that leaves teachers with sealed windows and impossible heat loads in despair.’

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  • Juggling With EggsJugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 7:01 AM

    ‘A new study of schools in Hampshire finds that 66% of classrooms present a “cognitive impairment risk”. If action isn’t taken, this will rise to 92% by 2050. Already, “heat strain” – physiologically dangerous temperature levels – afflicts 6% of classrooms.

    Many school buildings, especially the “lightweight, overglazed, single-sided” models favoured from the 1950s onwards, are grossly ill-suited to hot summers.’

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  • Juggling With EggsJugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 7:05 AM

    ‘Thanks to years of #austerity, many classrooms are in a terrible state. School buildings that should have been replaced decades ago are still in use.

    It is unlikely to have escaped the #Conservative architects of the programme that declining public provision further privileges their class. No wonder they fetishised competition, which they so blatantly rigged in their favour.’

    If we can’t afford decent state schools can we at least change the school year to a calendar one?

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  • Juggling With EggsJugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 6:14 PM

    This afternoon I attended with my kids a special SEND transition afternoon to the high school they will be attending in September.

    It was very hot and sticky.

    The school has expanded most decades since the Edwardian times when it was originally built. All sorts of bad design on display - low ceilings, large areas of glazing and windows barely open.

    I cannot imagine what it must have been like on Friday…but my kids came away saying it was cooler than their junior school. My head just boggles

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  • The Tattooed Nonna 🧙‍♀️Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party
    Jul 1, 2026, 7:01 AM

    @JugglingWithEggs regardless of a lack of legal maximum temperature, there is still a legal health and safety responsibility for employers, and in this case schools, so if it's not safe they still need to close or do something

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  • Juggling With EggsJugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
    Jul 1, 2026, 8:20 AM

    @Tattooed_Mummy

    I agree under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, head teachers have a responsibility to keep their employees safe…but with no limit set in terms of excess heat and just having to tick box a risk assessment are we any closer to keeping state teachers and children not just safe on paper but also on a level playing field in terms of exposure to heat stress?

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  • The Tattooed Nonna 🧙‍♀️Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party
    Jul 1, 2026, 8:35 AM

    @JugglingWithEggs HSE and others have done pretty good guidance, and actually not having a set temperature can be beneficial because sometimes the recorded temp might not be the one people are experiencing, eg where there is no breeze, high humixjty and no shade

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  • Stephen Borrillsborrill@justfollow.me.uk
    Jul 1, 2026, 7:32 PM

    @JugglingWithEggs I don't usually do politics but the chronyism of BSF under Labour prior to 2010 was an absolute shitshow too. I was adjacent to it at the time and the corruption was palpable.

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  • tribactamtribactam@vivaldi.net
    Jul 1, 2026, 10:47 AM

    @JugglingWithEggs

    There is a reason that the school year for high schools in Italy finishes around the 10th June and starts again around 10th September (exact dates depend on the year). They have few holidays during the year apart from two full weeks around Christmas, and only a couple of days in February/March and at Easter.

    And yes, there are few schools with aircon because when they were built, it really was not needed and has never really been a thing until recently. The Italian school year has been like this for a long time. This is what adaptation looks like.

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  • Nelsonskyfaller@jawns.club
    Jul 1, 2026, 10:56 PM

    @JugglingWithEggs To do the math in Fahrenheit...

    Empirical research suggests healthy adults start dropping dead at 87F wet bulb temperatures (87F at 100% humidity), lower than previously thought:

    psu.edu/news/research/story/hu

    Paper cited by OP says 1.9C is the number for cooling season, 2.8C for heating season:

    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    If children have a 1.9C lower thermal comfort level in hot weather, then that suggests you could expect healthy children to start dying at 83.5F wet bulb.

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