Heatwave at school start: 35-39 ℃, 95-102 ℉ inside classrooms?
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Péter Magyar, who heads the opposition Tisza party, has sent a letter to the government official in charge of public education, asking what was being done to improve “intolerable and inhuman” conditions in Hungary’s schools.
In the letter to Zoltán Maruzsa, seen by MTI on Wednesday, Magyar asked whether the entreaties by teachers and children in connection with hot classrooms had reached the state secretary. In several schools, temperatures in the classroom had reached 39 ℃, the letter said. He also cited the example of a school that had been without running water for months.
Magyar raised concerns about the impact on the health of students and teachers of sustained temperatures of 35-39 ℃.
The autumn heatwave in Hungary will last at least until next week, meteorologists said.
Hungary sees new heat records in September
On the third day of autumn, several heat records were broken, HungaroMet said on its website on Wednesday. On János Hill in Budapest, the mercury dropped to only 22.7 degrees ℃ at dawn on Tuesday, breaking the national and capital’s dawn heat record for that day. In 1956 Pannonhalma, in western Hungary, held the national record until then, with 22.1 ℃ measured.
In Körösszakál, Tuesday saw a new daytime record of 36.5 ℃, when previously on this day 35 ℃ was recorded in 1929 in Szerep and in 1944 in Békéscsaba. At Budapest’s Ujpest weather station, a new daytime record of 35.1 ℃ was measured, beating the 34.5 ℃ level seen in 1949 at the Budateteny station.
Government aiming to take all school children to national or historic memorial sites
The government is expanding its remembrance education programme to take all Hungarian school students to a historic national memorial site at least once, the deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
The initiative would reach some 78,000-80,000 students in the 7-11th grade, in some 3,000 classes, who will visit one of 47 national memorial sites, Zsolt Semjen said. for the project, he added.
Hungary is declining into Third World conditions. Some hospitals don’t even provide soap in washrooms. It boggles the mind to consider that is happening in a place where spread of infection is quite serious.
Larry should go see hospitals in Great Britain; then he’ll know what “third world” means.
As for Magyar, as always, he whines to make it seem he’s on the ball, but proposes no solutions. Yes, it’ll be hot today and tomorrow and then it’ll start cooling down. In a month he’ll be crying that the kids are cold. Or the classroom decor is outdated. Or little Eszter’s chair squeaks, ruining her dream of becoming a TikTok influencer.
(rolls eyes)