Waterbury Public Schools will have an early dismissal on Wednesday, Aug. 28 because of the forecast for extreme heat and they said extracurricular activities for Wednesday will be cancelled as well.
The NBC Connecticut StormTracker meteorologists are forecasting a muggy day with high temperatures near 90 that feel more like 94.
This is the third day of school in Waterbury and Dr. Darren Schwartz, the interim superintendent of Waterbury Public Schools, said it wasn’t the easiest decision to make on the second day of school to dismiss early on the third day.
“The reality is many of our classrooms on the upper floors of some of our larger schools, they were getting up into the high-80s, low-90s yesterday and we know today’s going to be even muggier and have a higher temperature,” Schwartz said.
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Students and teachers cannot be at their best in that kind of temperature, he said, and they also had to consider students’ medical needs.
The school system has posted the early dismissal schedule online here.
