Responsibility for school problemsTo the editor:
Who is running the Board of Education? Hamilton Avenue School children, families and staff have been subjected to mold for three years, and moved to modular classrooms with no library, no computer lab, no gymnasium and no auditorium.
How could this happen, one could ask? Bad construction, bad maintenance, blame the students, blame the teachers? Not the answers.
The head of building and construction is an assistant superintendent, who has no building, construction or engineering background or education. Her previous position was head of media. Yet she continues to receive raises to perform a job with no education or experience in that field...
Dorothea Vicoli Cheslock
Greenwich
By The Way:
Greenwich school parents and teachers are reporting that "Key Documents" from the Board Of Education Facilities Planning webpage now that the parents have had independent tests conducted at the contaminated Hamilton Avenue modular classrooms.
Please see:
http://www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm?p=5782
What happened to all those March Board Of Education test results and press releases?
The Board Of Education still has links to a Greenwich Public School Press Release from June 13, 2006 telling us how lucky we are that Betty Sternberg is coming to Greenwich, but mold test results are gone.
In fact, if a Glenville School parent was to go to the Greenwich Public Schools website and typed the word "mold" in the search box they will now get this page...
The Greenwich Public School's District Site Map:
http://www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm?p=713
It looks like there was no mold at the Greenwich public schools, those crazy Hamilton Avenue parents must have just imagined things. In fact, Betty "You Can Trust Me" Sternberg and her failed school administrators have been claiming there was no mold hazard since March 12, 2008...
schoolmoldhelp.org - Mold health hazard denied by Greenwich, CT
Mar 12, 2008Mold health hazard denied by Greenwich, CT school district
Health hazards denied for mold-infested school buildings - a typical school district stance that can place the public at risk. The unsuspecting public rarely understands that school mold testing is orchestrated to reassure, in many cases. Media articles, like the one below, simply amplify the reassurances, without delving into whether these are based on sound science. The children and teachers remain ignorant of what they have already been exposed to, while health departments and government health agencies fail to protect the public from the extensive public health menaces found in damp school buildings. The foxes guarding the chickencoop are simply not sufficient.
No mold hazard found at Ham Ave. modulars
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-hamavemar12,0,3105612.story
By Andrew Shaw
Staff Writer
Published March 12 2008
Ism't it strange that the Greenwich Public School test results are yanked off the Board Of Education website once the Hamilton Avenue School parents hired a lawyer and brought in a a professional to do independent tests.Please see:
Parents waiting for tests - Greenwich Time
May 20, 2008The jury is still out on whether officials were correct in saying that mold found at a modular school was not harmful to students and staff, according to a ...
...Board of Education member Leslie Moriarty said a certified environmental hygienist hired by the board trailed Leighton during the testing so that a parallel test could be run to make sure results are accurate. The results of those tests also are likely to be available next week...
Please also see:
05/15/08 - You Won't Read This In The Greenwich's Newspaper The "Yellowich" Time
05/09/09 - Hey Greenwich Time - Glenville School Parents Want To Know Why??????
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