In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s a bit hot outside.

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For most of us, this brings sensible precautions as we carry on with our daily routines, but for some teachers it’s prompted an absurd overreaction. Hundreds of schools are closed today across England and Wales, supposedly to avoid both pupils and staff sweltering in boiling-hot classrooms. But isn’t this just the latest example of Britain’s nanny state gone too far? When did we become such a country of snowflakes?

Of course, it’s important to keep both students and teachers safe in the heat, but whatever happened to taking sensible precautions? By all means cancel school sports day in these temperatures, but surely one of the lessons learned from the Covid pandemic was that........

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