Can a school shut if its too hot?

[jimi]

Today was unbearable seriously :(
I couldn't even stand It .
My dad was telling me that there was a heat wave when he was my age and he was aloud to go home because it was too hot.
So if it gets too hot, by law are we aloud to stay at home from school/college etc? :rolleyes:

+REP

[Immenseman]

yeah, i think so. it's like summet that it'll never reach tho.

[Wahey]

Well it's unlikely now with air conditioning and that now etc but yeah, it's possible and like how if it's too cold you can go home

[LuketheDuke]

I believe if a classroom temperature exceeds a certain level then you can be sent home. (over 90 I think, not sure what that is celcius)

However air cons pretty common now so unfortunately its less likely to happen.

[Immenseman]

i thought there was a certain temperature. or maybe that was all rumours at school when it got relatively hot. google it.

[LoveToStack]

How come you're still at school anyway? When do your holidyas start? :S

[GommeInc]

Yes and no. Some schools will just teach the little blighters outside on the playground in a shaded area. Windows and fans are the usual equipment to stop people from getting too hot now, and are usually what all students need to have. If your school/classroom doesn't have a fan, you could always ask if they want to borrow one of yours - though no-one donates to schools :P

[Immenseman]

mid july for years 1-10 and year 12 for some colleges (mine)

yr 11 and yr 13 finish early, already finished.

[culturist]

yeah but our school always have an excuse not to send us home

(such as you don't have to wear your tie LOL, don't see how this effects you being hot but kk) :P

[LoveToStack]

mid july for years 1-10 and year 12 for some colleges (mine)

yr 11 and yr 13 finish early, already finished.

Orite, that's like 2 weeks after us give or take a few days. When do you go back?

[Jordy]

There is no legal limit although there is a minimum of 18 Degrees. There's campaigns for there to be a maximum and in the past teachers have threatened walk outs but nothing so far. However I think County Council's can create maximum temperature rules.

It's ridiculous how warm and cold some of the classrooms in my school get, all winter it was freezing in my form room and I never concentrated, now it's just shot up to far too warm and a fan blowing around hot air :rolleyes:

[FlyingJesus]

I'm not sure what the maximum legal temperature in classrooms and offices is but I'm fairly sure my office well exceeds it at the moment - the windows literally open 2" because they're a crap design and our air conditioning has been broken for weeks. I've taken tonight off just because last night I was actually feeling ill because of it and it's meant to be fixed tomorrow :P

[Oleh]

Nope, it can if its too cold, but not to hot

There is no legal warmth, well not in a workplace, it could be 110 degrees c and still you gotta work but not if it exceeds 0.c

[J0SH]

My school was too cold once and they sent us home, so it's possible

[e5]

most of the rooms in my school are not even air conditioned :l lol
it's so unbearable hot in some of our classrooms :@

[Pyroka]

I thought it was legislation to make sure a room stays room temperature otherwise people can complain or something... meh I cant remember, working conditions and all that crap.

[Immenseman]

just feel for the teachers. often in shirts etc, mwahah.

well i guess at school you still have to wear black trousers anyway. thank god for 6th form.

[VelvetClover]

So releived I've left school...classrooms are horrible in the summer, a room full of thirty sweaty teenagers ewwwwwwwwww lol

[Immenseman]

how can you remember all the way back then nat?!

[Starburst..x]

There are no laws to say that you can go home if the temperature gets too high.
Personally I think we should all enjoy it whilst it lasts, yes I know that it gets unbearable at school or the workplace but people moan that they want sunny hot weather and then when it happens people complain that it's too hot!! So again, enjoy (as best you can) whilst it lasts!! :D
Ice-cream anyone?

[Caution]

if it gets to a certain low temperature in school (dunno if it's just school) you have the right to leave. i don't think there'll be a law for a high temp in the uk though.

[Technologic]

Stop being a wimp and live with it.

[VelvetClover]

how can you remember all the way back then nat?!

Lol clever Jake.

[Immenseman]

Lol clever Jake.
80s child. enough said.

[Gullable]

in the pe changing rooms the heater's are on in the summer, no windows or air conditioning so we have to spray our arms and legs to get our clothes on thats how hot it is and aswell as that its cooler outside than in there its bloody perfetic:@

[Fehm]

Im sure its like 35 degree's Celsius and then they have to send ya home? Dunno :S
Google it =D!

[Wahey]

Ugh, it's funny my school has heating but yet only some classrooms have air con :\ and half the windows don't open!:@

[Nli.]

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/popularquestions/questions.cfm?keywords=temperatures&gatewayCategoryID=0&mainCategoryID=0&expandID=8527&new=0

[Mickword]

its about 999 Degrees Celcius, NEVER GETTING THERE LOL.

[Gullable]

:(U ALL IGNORE MEEEEEE

[-:Undertaker:-]

Schools hardly ever close in the United Kingdom because it effects attendance rates and schools are that bogged down with burocracy and targets that common sense if often ignored.

[camera]

dont think so. schools have a/c so its all good :D