‘Everyone’s sweating’: P.E.I. students trying to cope with hot classrooms [Video]

They’re opening the windows, cranking the fans and chugging plenty of water, but staff and students at some schools on P.E.I. are finding this week’s heat uncomfortable.

“It’s like really hot in the schools,” said Ayla Affleck, a Grade 7 student at Queen Charlotte Intermediate in Charlottetown.

“We get to go outside for a couple of minutes in between classes just to cool off a little bit but, yeah, everybody’s sweating.”

On Tuesday and Wednesday, temperatures reached the high 20s with the humidex in the low 30s, about 10 C hotter than normal for mid-September.

Temperatures have been unseasonably warm for mid-Septmeber in P.E.I., and that means schools are also heating up. CBC’s Laura Meader talks to some students, staff and parents about how they’re coping with the humid buildings.

Many schools do not have air conditioning, and the heat in June and September has become such an issue that …