Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S. Caribbean territory bakes under record heat this year
A school maintenance worker wears sun protection at the Escuela Elemental Santiago Iglesias Pantín school in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Students and teachers are holding class in public schools across Puerto Rico that lack air conditioning amid record heat this year. Public school teacher Ángel Muñiz grabbed a thermometer and thrust it into the camera as someone recorded him inside his classroom this week.
“Records are being broken almost every day,” said Odalys Martínez, National Weather Service forecaster. “It’s irresponsible, because this is an emergency. It’s a matter of public health,” said Yasim Sarkis, a social worker at an elementary school that often lacks electricity and whose son attends a public high school with no air conditioning.
But air conditioning remains rare at public schools, which depend on fans and trade winds that blow through windows with metal shutters. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico’s Association of Teachers said that of 2,500 teachers surveyed so far, more than 83% said they don’t have air conditioning in their classroom. More than 50% of public schools also have reported a heat-related emergency.
The proposals have angered many, including Ángel Matos García, majority spokesman for Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives.
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