“Teachers unions and educators are saying ...”
Haha, that’s hysterical. Maybe they should go back to the old schedule, when school started after Labor Day and ended before Memorial Day.
My spiritual director and I were talking about this yesterday. We both grew up in hot parts of the country before everything was air conditioned, and we all got by, including the school teachers, because they had the same no-a/c lives as the students.
Not only did I go to school K-6 without AC, but I had a teacher who ridiculed us for fanning ourselves. She said the attendant physical activity raised our heart rate and made us hotter. So we sat and sweat.
And as you can tell, I turned out ok. I grew up to post on FR.
Attending school in the South I remember notebook paper sticking to my arms and No. 2 pencils not being able to write on paper that was damp from humidity. Our school had a flat roof and the tar would leak through the seams over the classrooms.