A Catholic school board trustee is pitching what she says is an inexpensive way to help students in classrooms without air conditioning beat the heat this spring.
Maria Rizzo, who represents Ward 5 North York in the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), is calling on trustees to consider installing outdoor misting stations at more than 150 schools that don’t have air conditioning at the board. Rizzo’s motion goes will go to the student achievement committee at a meeting Thursday evening.
“If you’re hungry, you can’t learn; if you’re hot, you can’t learn,” Rizzo told CBC Toronto. “It’s not just uncomfortable, it’s awful…It’s terrible to be in a school building that