To the editor: We should act urgently to handle excessive warmth on our public faculty campuses (“Dealing with extreme heat is a full-time job for parents of young kids — and their schools,” July 8). Opposite to the article’s characterization, Los Angeles Unified College District has made inexperienced area a precedence following my 2022 resolution that set a brand new commonplace requiring all faculty playgrounds to incorporate at the very least 30% inexperienced area. Since then, our district has devoted greater than $1.2 billion of voter-approved bond funding towards greening and shading tasks and greater than 150 greening tasks are at the moment in progress.
Because the consultant for East San Fernando Valley faculties and an LAUSD dad or mum, I do know that we’re beginning to see the constructive outcomes of bringing inexperienced areas to our campuses, however so a lot of our faculties are nonetheless intensely sizzling. We should and can do extra to remodel all our public faculty campuses with the urgency this environmental justice problem calls for.
Kelly Gonez, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I additionally discovered the exhausting method that air-con is a life or loss of life requirement, not a luxurious. Throughout a brutal warmth wave in late July 2022, my 4-month-old was enjoying on the tile ground of my house, which had no AC. He slowly stopped waving his rattle, then stopped making sounds, then laid his cheek down on the ground and stared blankly on the wall. I checked his temperature and located it to be 103 levels.
Now terrified, I stripped him down, washed him with cool cloths and bought him within the automotive with the AC on full blast. We raced to my in-laws’ home, which has AC, and laid him on the wooden ground. After an hour, he began shifting and cooing once more and he was superb. That was probably the most horrifying day of my life, considering that I used to be going to look at my child die in entrance of my eyes. After we moved a yr later, AC was the No. 1 non-negotiable merchandise on our checklist for our new house.
Kristen Robles, Ventura
