{"id":643,"date":"2025-09-14T03:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/?p=643"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:39:24","slug":"italian-schools-grapple-with-record-heat-as-students-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/italian-schools-grapple-with-record-heat-as-students-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Schools Grapple With Record Heat as Students Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students in Italy have recently ended their summer vacation, which lasted over three months, and have returned to school. However, the persistently high temperatures have become a major obstacle to the new semester, with some teachers calling for an adjustment to the academic calendar and a postponement of the start of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An administrator at a school in Palermo, Sicily, told an AFP reporter, &#8220;The direct sun makes the classrooms into a greenhouse, which is unbearably hot.&#8221; The high temperatures endanger the health of both students and teachers, and under such conditions, the quality of education cannot be guaranteed. The head of the local teachers&#8217; union stated that due to climate change, &#8220;we cannot continue using the academic calendar from 50 years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an AFP report, Italy has the longest summer vacation in Europe, lasting 97 days this year, far exceeding Spain&#8217;s 77 days, France&#8217;s 56 days, and Germany&#8217;s 44 days. The start of the school year has brought a sigh of relief to exhausted parents. Faced with the teachers&#8217; call to extend the summer break, parents have expressed opposition, arguing that such a move would increase the burden on working families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from Italy&#8217;s Ministry of Education shows that over half of the country&#8217;s school buildings are old, with only 6% of schools nationwide equipped with air conditioning, and electricity prices are high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information from the EU&#8217;s Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that since the 1980s, Europe has been warming at twice the global average rate, with a significant extension of high-temperature summer periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Italy have recently ended their summer vacation, which lasted over three months, and have returned to school. However, the persistently high temperatures have become a major obstacle to the new semester, with some teachers calling for an adjustment to the academic calendar and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}