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Andalusian families demand end to classroom heat and threaten strike

'Escuelas de Calor' platform criticizes the inaction of the Junta de Andalucía and union passivity regarding the Bioclimatization Law.

Image of an Andalusian classroom with intense sunlight and a hot atmosphere.
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Image of an Andalusian classroom with intense sunlight and a hot atmosphere.

Andalusian families, through the 'Escuelas de Calor' platform, have raised their voices against high temperatures in educational centers, demanding effective measures and threatening to call a strike due to the administration's lack of response.

The rise in temperatures at the beginning of June has once again turned Andalusian classrooms into "an oven," pushing families' patience to its limit. The Escuelas de Calor platform has issued an ultimatum to the administration and union representatives, demanding an end to "useless signature campaigns" and the urgent call for a strike in the education sector under the slogan "Enough with the pretense."
The platform criticizes unions for limiting themselves to denouncing the situation on social media, appealing to the mobilization of parents and students. "Education workers have other tools of struggle beyond calling for the entire educational community to take to the streets (...) and that is the strike," they demand, assuring that families would unconditionally support this measure to defend the labor health and thermal comfort of their children, taking the recent determination seen in Valencia as an example.
Indignation is spreading over what they consider a "re-payment," as an increasing number of parent associations are taking on the cost of purchasing and installing air conditioning systems in schools due to "institutional passivity." "Something that is not their responsibility and is a 're-payment'; we already pay taxes to have decent educational centers," they denounce.
The platform directly points to the Education Department of the Junta de Andalucía, accusing it of "selling headlines of millions invested" while launching initiatives like the "Improve your center" program. They consider these funds a "lure" with bureaucratic hurdles, designed to "silence critics and individualize the conflict" instead of offering a structural solution.
The anger is based on the lack of implementation of the Bioclimatization Law (Law 1/2020), approved in 2020 after years of social and political pressure. This pioneering regulation recognized students' right to healthy infrastructure and mandated the implementation of bioclimatic solutions. However, six years later, the school community denounces that the law "remains unapplied," keeping thermal comfort a "utopia."
Faced with this "institutional blockade and union lukewarmness," Escuelas de Calor warns that "only one path remains through a strike: 'We will return to the fight in the streets, there is no other way'."
As a reference, Andalusian families look to the Valencian model, where the Ministry of Education, under the direction of Carmen Ortí, has implemented organizational measures to mitigate thermal impact. These include reduced hours in June and September, concentrating teaching activities from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM for ESO, Baccalaureate, and Vocational Training, and flexibility in afternoon shifts.

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