Excessive warmth on L.A. college campuses have to be ‘urgently’ addressed

To the editor: We should act urgently to handle excessive warmth on our public college campuses (“Coping with excessive warmth is a full-time job for fogeys of younger youngsters — and their faculties,” July 8). Opposite to the article’s characterization, Los Angeles Unified Faculty District has made inexperienced house a precedence following my 2022 decision that set a brand new customary requiring all college playgrounds to incorporate not less than 30% inexperienced house. Since then, our district has devoted greater than $1.2 billion of voter-approved bond funding towards greening and shading initiatives and greater than 150 greening initiatives are at the moment in progress.

Because the consultant for East San Fernando Valley faculties and an LAUSD father or mother, I do know that we’re beginning to see the optimistic outcomes of bringing inexperienced areas to our campuses, however so lots of our faculties are nonetheless intensely scorching. We should and can do extra to rework all our public college campuses with the urgency this environmental justice difficulty calls for.

Kelly Gonez, Los Angeles

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To the editor: I additionally realized the laborious approach that air con is a life or loss of life requirement, not a luxurious. Throughout a brutal warmth wave in late July 2022, my 4-month-old was taking part in on the tile ground of my residence, which had no AC. He slowly stopped waving his rattle, then stopped making sounds, then laid his cheek down on the ground and stared blankly on the wall. I checked his temperature and located it to be 103 levels.

Now terrified, I stripped him down, washed him with cool cloths and acquired him within the automotive with the AC on full blast. We raced to my in-laws’ home, which has AC, and laid him on the wooden ground. After an hour, he began transferring and cooing once more and he was effective. That was essentially the most horrifying day of my life, pondering that I used to be going to observe my child die in entrance of my eyes. Once we moved a 12 months later, AC was the No. 1 non-negotiable merchandise on our listing for our new residence.

Kristen Robles, Ventura