With the thermometers shooting and the classrooms boiling, the families of Madrid took over the Plaza de los Carros this Friday, in the heart of La Latina, dressed in flip-flops, swimsuits, floats, fans and water sprayers. It is their form of protest against another month of May that has once again caught educational centers without tools to combat the heat when summer is anticipated without asking permission with “abnormally high” maximums for the time of year, reaching 34 degrees in the afternoon in several parts of the region, according to the State Meteorological Agency. Concern is growing among the educational community about the. “In the Central district we have said enough about the inaction of the administrations in the face of premature heat waves and the global increase in temperatures,” have expressed the associations of families of students from the Vázquez de Mella, San Ildefonso and Nuestra Señora de la Paloma educational centers, which together with other schools in the area have managed to gather 300 people in a protest act to demand urgent solutions: “May already seems like August within the public schools.”
