High CO2 levels in classrooms are a silent barrier to learning

What? Just open the windows 🤷.

TheSunRisesInTheEast

What? Just open the windows 🤷.

What’s the betting they don’t all have windows that open?

Today's school kids won't have the pleasure of draughty classrooms, glass panels that rattled in the wind, having to keep your coat on in the winter because the boiler had broken down. I'm so glad to be able to have my windows and doors open now that we have warmer weather, I don't like the feeling of being shut in.

I actually think that’s a bit shocking, especially in primary schools and nurseries.

Why is this?

Why not open windows?

TheSunRisesInTheEast

What? Just open the windows 🤷.

Most of the classrooms I worked in were so old the windows didn’t fit anyway

You can’t open the windows! 😱
The children will complain of draughts, then the parents will complain about seating arrangements, either their child is suffering because they’re too close to a window, or because they’re too far away from a window window and they’re getting secondhand which has passed all those other the students.
This complaint might
be especially noticeable from parents who fly a lot.

Elf 'n Safety! Someone might hurl themselves out of a properly opening window! The same now in hospital buildings.

Mollygo 😂😂😂

Everywhere we go, we are sealed in. Buses and trains no longer have windows that open properly. Shops have automatic doors, so little fresh air gets in. Most of us have double glazing. As a result, we are breathing in polluted air where ever we are.
Air purifiers should be compulsory in all public buildings especially schools and hospitals.

The outside air is probably polluted anyway.

This Council is doing something about the problem:
www.supportservicesforeducation.co.uk/Article/183269

Allira

This Council is doing something about the problem:
www.supportservicesforeducation.co.uk/Article/183269

Good idea. If the results are monitored-fewer headaches, illness etc. they may set a trend.

In infant schools, children are involved in outdoor learning. The doors are open a great deal of the time.

Chocolatelovinggran

In infant schools, children are involved in outdoor learning. The doors are open a great deal of the time.

Some! My daughters class have their classroom door shut 80% of the time!