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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Independent and Lauren MacDougall

Voices: ‘Move the summer holidays’: Readers on how schools should adapt to extreme heat

As debate continues over school closures and disruption during the heatwave, Independent readers are divided over where responsibility should lie when extreme temperatures make classrooms uncomfortable or potentially unsafe.

While some warned that shutting schools creates major childcare challenges for working families, others argued that children’s wellbeing should take priority as the UK adapts to increasingly frequent periods of extreme heat.

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