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Kids get excused from school due to heat

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Updated: 8/24/2011 2:24 pm | Published: 8/24/2011 1:20 pm

Written by: Dan Metcalf Jr.

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SANDY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Canyons School District officials say students will be allowed three days excused absence due to hot temperatures.

Canyons School District spokesperson Jennifer Toomer-Cook said parents will be allowed to keep their children home if they are worried about hot classrooms.

Toomer-Cook said the missed days will be counted as an excused absence as long as parents notify the schools.

Toomer- Cook said the decision was made after district visited some of the hot classrooms during the first week of school.

According to Toomer-Cook, students would be allowed to get homework to make up for missed classwork during the absences.

Other Utah school districts were weighing options on how to deal with the heat.

Granite School District spokesman Benjamin Horsley released a statement to ABC 4 News, saying:

"We would like to reiterate Granite's long-standing confidence in parents in making health related decisions for their children. If a parent feels that the heat is compromising their child's health, they are welcome to excuse their child in the same manner as they would with any health related concern."

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kistylimb - 8/24/2011 9:41 PM

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My Daughter goes to Cyprus High School and they have 3 floors in the school and thier a/c isn't working so is the Granite School District going to excuss the abence if I don't send her to school. She has asthma and the heat doesn't help. she has one teacher that takes 25 points off of the kids grades just for using the restroom. but yet these kids need to have water with them so that they don't get dehidrated.

Peachez0018 - 8/24/2011 5:29 PM

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I work at a high school and we were told not to enforce the dress code so we don't end up on the news for this reason. That came from the district superintendent. Maybe some of those technology dollars could be used to fix these a/c's? And maybe next year they could be checked before school starts.

angelb8632 - 8/24/2011 5:18 PM

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My kids school's A/C is broken and they have two floors and my kids have been comming home feeling sick so I called Holt in Clearfield and the lady that answered the phone said I don't know where you grew up but we never had a/c at school.

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