Students are struggling to learn amid heat waves and lack of AC.
shows that test scores are even lower when there are consecutive days of extreme heat.
Though all students and teachers are affected by extreme heat, not everyone is affected equally. Students at schools in lower-income areas, where there is more likely to be overcrowding in classrooms, will feel the effects of the heat more broadly, as it will be combined with excess body heat. Students who live on campus may also be more impacted by extreme heat, as they not only have to study in buildings without central AC, but live in them full time as well.
“Disabled people are very much harmed by the climate crisis, and many are already being displaced and are dying,” Métraux told. “People with heat-sensitive conditions need AC, and with temperatures going all over the place, we need to be able to regulate the temperatures around us, so we don’t get sick.”
In an email to Teen Vogue, a UC Berkeley spokesperson said that many of the buildings don’t have AC because of the “moderate climate” of the area and “because of our concern with energy efficiency and the environment.
With such unpredictable weather, the presence of AC is becoming a critical factor in whether or not a student can properly learn on a hot day. Astated that, on days above 90 degrees, the city will close its approximately 100 school buildings without proper AC and ask students to learn remotely that day instead. According to Allen, getting ACs into every school building is a crucial step in ensuring that students have equal learning opportunities no matter what the weather is like.
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