Stifling temperatures can impede students’ academic success. Elementary school students attend seven hours of school, half an hour more than before the pandemic. The 50,000-student district was one of the only school systems to extend the school day. Atlanta has taken more drastic steps than most other cities to make up for lost learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

Students enter the front doors of Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. Those students get sent home early when it’s too hot to learn – 85 degrees or higher in their classrooms, she said. One have asthma,” Turner told CNN affiliate WMAR.įourteen Baltimore schools don’t have any air conditioning, school district Chief Operating Officer Lynette Washington told CNN. “My children can’t even breathe in the school. In Baltimore, Marcia Turner is sick of her kids feeling sick at school. Without more investment in US public schools, he said, “we get further and further behind on the world stage.”įrom Maryland to Colorado, students struggle to breathe in oppressively hot classrooms Parents sacrifice income to provide child care when classes suddenly get canceled.īurnt-out teachers already stressed by the pandemic and school violence are pushed closer to leaving the profession.Įven those not directly connected to deteriorating schools will be impacted, Pickens said. Students get sick, distracted or miss entire days of education when conditions turn abysmal. Ohio teachers go on strike, demanding improvements to miserable classroom environment Perenic/Columbus Dispatch/USA Today Network Perenic/Columbus DispatchĬeb Teachers Strike Bjp Barbara J. Classes were scheduled to start Wednesday. AugColumbus, Ohio, USA Heather Giles, a seventh grade math teacher at Starling Elementary School leads a chant as Columbus Education Association members picketed at the district's Southland Center during an emergency meeting of the Board of Education on Monday evening.The Columbus Education Association announced Sunday night that more than 94% of members voted to reject the Columbus City school board's final contract offer.

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