Every school is different

[MrsMurphyIWish]

Yes another heat post but it needs to be said.

My teens have come home from school at 1pm feeling sick and faint. These are kids who play sports, do drama, work endlessly and never complain. They went in PE kit. They have much airier rooms than I do at my school. They were given bottles of water each lesson by the pastoral team and it still wasn’t enough.

My children aren’t “Snowflakes”. Anyone who knows them know having two teacher parents mean we tell them to “put up or shut up”.

So, for those criticising schools, it can’t be helped. Primary to secondary is different. A school in the north to the Midlands or even to the south, is different. I saw a post today about a PTA buying 3 fans for each classroom. Not all schools have a PTA or one that can use the budget for “luxuries”.

Just my tuppence.

We are looking at AC units in our school. Each child is worth about £7k a year, it will cost less than that to put a unit in a classroom, so if you get one extra child per class (most classes are 27 or 28 kids) it will pay for them - the actual marginal cost of a kid is small. Local schools fighting for kids, I'm convinced the maths will work. If I was weighing up two schools the one with AC would get another tick.

Even within a school, experiences can be very different. Some rooms are much hotter than others. And some classes have children with particular needs who are more likely to be triggered by the hot weather. Not that i existed, but I'm told that in 1976, most children sat quietly in rows, and things were very different before the "we got on with it" crowd start.