Keeping classrooms warm is essential for several reasons, primarily because it affects a students’ comfort, health and overall learning experience. It helps them focus on their work because they are not worried about how cold they are, but they are worried about their work and other things they need to do. When a classroom is cold students tend to move around a lot and cover their face to try to get warm and stay warm. Yes, the students can wear sweatshirts, but if a classroom is still cold even with a sweatshirt, then anyone would be uncomfortable.
Most teachers keep their classrooms cold hoping that it will make the students not want to fall asleep and hopefully pay attention, but that’s not the case. If a teacher has to put something over what they are wearing because even they are cold in their own classroom, then there is a serious problem. Nobody should have to be in a building that’s even cold with a sweatshirt on. Not every kid is privileged enough to have nice, warm sweatshirts. So those kids are stuck being cold all day no matter what, which isn’t fair. Also some kids have to walk to school every day, so when they get there they want a nice warm building to walk into to get warmed up, but some teachers keep their rooms freezing so the kids that have been outside are still cold.
When a classroom is warm, students have a better learning experience and they feel more comfortable in their environment. Another thing is that for certain sports the students are forced to wear nice clothes that consist of skirts and dresses, so when a teacher has the classroom cold, the athlete is usually cold because their bare legs are out and its not even their fault.
In conclusion, teachers should keep their classrooms warm because the students will pay attention more, be more comfortable, and overall be very happy with their learning experience. Some teachers just need to understand that keeping their rooms cold doesn’t mean that students will listen and pay attention more. Instead, it makes us not want to do anything but find something that will make us warm, and it also makes us not want to be in that class at all.