Heat dome forces a rare midweek school closure across capitals
Adaptation is now a school calendar problem.
Whatever happens next, the baseline has moved. The old assumptions no longer describe the room they were built to describe.
Practical effects are already visible on the ground, and they tend to outrun the official analysis by a comfortable margin.
What makes this moment unusual is not the size of the move but its shape. The curve bends in a way that resists easy analogies.
Critics raise familiar objections, and some of them land. The honest answer is that the tradeoffs are real and worth naming.
Skeptics point to the long history of premature declarations. Their caution is earned, and worth keeping close at hand.
Still, the conversation has changed. The questions in the room are different from the questions in the room six months ago.
