Harvard Elementary School is Houston’s oldest school and celebrated its 125th birthday last September, but despite that proud distinction, parents tell KPRC 2 the school’s 126th year is off to a hot and miserable start.
Get organized and transform your home with these Insider DealsFor nearly two weeks now, Heights-area parents have sent their children to Harvard, where they said air conditioning issues are disrupting learning for their students.
“There’s been kids that have vomited in his classroom from the heat,” the father of a kindergartener, who asked to remain anonymous, told‘We continue to grieve’: HISD shares more information on death of Marshall Middle School student In one case, parents said students’ pages of work have become damp because of the humidity. In another case, snacks that parents are asked to send, in this case oranges, went bad before they were able to eat them and were “molding” by the afternoon.
“They’re also bringing in other kids from other classrooms to her classroom during the day, which is very distracting,” the parent said, adding that it’s happening during a mandated testing period.In a message sent out to Harvard families on Aug. 18, the school’s principal explained that a “compressor blew,” so the school had to use a temporary one. The principal told families in an Aug. 16 note that she had made “ongoing requests the past two years to address our HVAC issues.
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