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Opinion: Our kids are learning in saunas. It's time B.C. took classroom heat seriously

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Danielle Connelly and Kathleen Carlsen are elected trustees with the New Westminster Board of Education .

They say portables are not air-tight, climate-controlled buildings, but are being used as long-term classrooms.

When students are packed into portables during a heat wave, those structures can reach temperatures well into the 30s .

This is a public health issue, an education equity issue, and a basic safety issue, they say.

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English

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