Heat combined with humidity make what is called the heat index or what it feels like. Many of our classrooms have heat indexes that are regularly in the 90's and 100's.  Teachers and students work and learn in these rooms all day long. Our superintendent came for a showcase last year and she and her group had to exit the room because it was too hot for them to spend just 30 minutes or so, yet the rest of us are expected to "just deal with it." I attended school in Hawaii when I was young and no, it was not this hot and our classrooms were not so overcrowded. Students and teachers are regularly suffering the effects of overheated rooms including heat rash, headaches and heat stroke. We cannot continue to say that the children are our future and education matters if the message kids are getting is that their learning environment and health don't matter.