The Government allows parents to keep their children home from school due to the heat wave
With the school year nearly finished, the Government of Andalusia is allowing parents to keep children home from school as well as allowing educational centres to modify their timetables. The reason being the heat wave, which has turned some centres into a genuine oven.
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We have seen them going to school in swimsuits, with fans, even having class outside the classrooms in the shade while being sprayed with water to cool down. Children are an especially vulnerable group and temperatures in the classrooms have exceeded 35 degrees on occasion, making academic activity impossible. The Education Department promises that in September there will be an action protocol for emergency situations such as this one, in addition to providing air conditioning in the centres. As of now, the department has informed schools that they can modify their timetables and allow students to leave classrooms as requested by their families.
Parent councils are asking for long-term solutions, remarking that not everyone can go mid-morning to collect their children.
And unions are asking the teachers to inform them if temperatures in the school surpass 27 degrees while documenting work-place complaints, because teachers also suffer from the heat and such conditions don¿t comply with occupational hazards regulations.
