There was also reason to believe it may have been for other reasons, like quick & sneaky smoking breaks. The door was only held open with something blocking the lock, not wide open like looking for air circulation. I've always thought that was just a lie made uo by whomever was responsible and didnt want to own it afterwards.

That's not to dismiss your description of what it's like in Texas schools in hot weather. I can only imagine having lived in Florida for a bit of time way back and being in Virginia during a 100+° week visiting my best friend.

I couldnt breathe outside. We went to Gettysburg and as much as I wanted to be there to see where it all happened, I literally couldn't breathe without my asthma thingie. (FTR- I only have exercise induced or heat index induced asthma). I had to fly home 4 days early because it was so unbearable. I couldn't breathe trying to walk from the house AC to the car AC to the mall or restaurant AC without my inhaler. It was August, but still.

Fans would have done nothing much to alleviate the problem, but it would have been something anyway to move the air to cool our sweaty selves down a little. So why didnt the ancient, cheaply built schools in poor, migrant population areas like Uvalde AT LEAST have fans in the hallways and classrooms, etc? They had SIX police-trained officers assigned to their security program. They had strong security door locks for every exit. They had a security entrance to keep people out.

But not enough fans and dumbass employees who bypassed the door lock he got in.

After Columbine and a few more, the entire nation knew our schools and public buildings were too porous. The more affluent the community, the faster and better the security came. But without scanners, they couldn't stop students from bringing guns in their backpacks. So they got scanners. Many of them anyway.

Intruders getting inside without being stopped because security protocols werent enforced is why some like Columbine and Uvalde happened. Ditto Parkland's Margery Stoneham Douglas massacre where ANOTHER COWARD failed his students and forever shamed himself!

They should all be BRANDED as cowards. Wasn't there an old TV show with Chuck Connors unfairly branded that way? Id be okay with branding the proven cowards on their foreheads and hands. If they wear hats abd gloves, then brand their cheeks. They were acquitted of illegal actions, as the law says they must be. However, they are COWARDS who shoukd never be allowed to pretend otherwise.