04/08/08 - "None of us want to unduly alarm the public," said David Bailey, Hood's attorney. "We don't want mothers getting frantic."

Don't panic, says lawyer in lawsuit over mold in Suffolk school ...

The lawyer who helped bring a lawsuit against the city over allegations of dangerous mold problems at an elementary school said Friday that he does not want to panic parents.

Cristina Hood, a fourth-grade teacher at Booker T. Washington Elementary School, filed a lawsuit this week that accuses school and city officials of failing to address dangerous levels of mold that sickened her and some of her students. She is seeking $2.5 million in damages......

....Bailey said he has not spoken to any parents with children at the school or other teachers there.

He also has not sought any school records, he said.

"All of that is down the road, depending on how the court wants to deal with it," Bailey said.

"We have tried to keep this, at the moment, to the situation with Ms. Hood," he added. "And I realize it has much broader implications."....

...Hood was hired at Booker T. Washington last summer to teach about 25 fourth-graders. According to her complaint, she began to suffer itchy eyes within days of beginning work and later developed nasal congestion....,

.... about 20 percent to 30 percent of Hood's students have respiratory problems, watery eyes, allergies, asthma, runny noses, headaches and stomach issues. Hood sends children to the school nurse daily, the complaint said.

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