AUSTIN, Texas — This summer's extreme heat has been brutal. But imagine facing it in a classroom without air conditioning.
That has been the case at Martin Middle School and Allison Elementary School. Multiple families reached out to KVUE, frustrated their kids had to brave the conditions.
There is a universal need amongst Texans: to stay cool under that blazing sun. But that's not so easy for some students in Austin ISD schools. Take Aubrey Molina, a fifth-grader at Allison Elementary. She said the air conditioning has not worked in her music and physical education classrooms for at least a week.
"Most of the time, it's annoying, especially some days students go to P.E. and then we're going to have to start running track soon, so it's going to be pretty hot for us," Molina said.
That also happens to be the case for Balian Bautista Perez, who is in the fourth grade.
"Sometimes, there might be stuff crawling on the vents that are stopping the air conditioning. I don't know how the air conditioning broke, but the school is just old," Bautista Perez said.
KVUE reached out to Austin ISD officials on Wednesday about the air conditioning issues. In an email, a spokesperson wrote that at Allison Elementary, there were air conditioning issues in a specific wing of the school. At Martin Middle, they were having chiller problems and installed a temporary one.
These issues concern parents like Edgar Molina, Aubrey Molina's father.
"I don't want her passing out or anything like that," Edgar Molina said.
They are waiting for relief as this extreme heat lingers.