Westport News Front Page
Westport News has continued to investigate the air quality situation at King's Highway Elementary School and had two front page articles today on the situation.
One article was a follow-up to their earlier report on the 2002 Air Quality study that Elliott Landon kept hidden from the Board of Education, the media and parents. According to the Westport News, due to the age of the building predating the code being implemented:
"The building code violations identified in a 2002 engineering study of the King's Highway Elementary School (KHS) cannot be enforced".
We commend the newspaper for its pursuit of the true history behind the air quality problems at KHS. The Westport News noted that it filed "a request under the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the central school office for invoices and other documents that might show whether there has been any upgrading of the KHS ventilation system since the date of the engineering study in 2002."
We hope the Westport News is more successful in getting answers to its FOIA request than the KHS Clean Air Committee has received from Mr. Landon to its earlier FOIA request.
The second article focused on the age of the mold at KHS and the lack of any records that seem to exist that would help document how long mold has been at the elementary school. According to the Westport News:
"Board of Education Chairman Mary Parmelee said she has been told that five years ago, officials knew there was mold in the building and nothing was done about it, but said she has not seen a record of it".
Mold.
Non-functioning vents.
Code Violations.
High CO2 levels.
All known in 2001 and 2002.
Why did Landon not act for what appears to have been 5+ years?
Where was the BOE this entire period?
Why did it take sick children to have action taken at KHS?
"The building code violations identified in a 2002 engineering study of the King's Highway Elementary School (KHS) cannot be enforced".
We commend the newspaper for its pursuit of the true history behind the air quality problems at KHS. The Westport News noted that it filed "a request under the state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the central school office for invoices and other documents that might show whether there has been any upgrading of the KHS ventilation system since the date of the engineering study in 2002."
We hope the Westport News is more successful in getting answers to its FOIA request than the KHS Clean Air Committee has received from Mr. Landon to its earlier FOIA request.
The second article focused on the age of the mold at KHS and the lack of any records that seem to exist that would help document how long mold has been at the elementary school. According to the Westport News:
"Board of Education Chairman Mary Parmelee said she has been told that five years ago, officials knew there was mold in the building and nothing was done about it, but said she has not seen a record of it".
Mold.
Non-functioning vents.
Code Violations.
High CO2 levels.
All known in 2001 and 2002.
Why did Landon not act for what appears to have been 5+ years?
Where was the BOE this entire period?
Why did it take sick children to have action taken at KHS?
1 comments:
It's appalling to watch the committee meetings and see Landon's arrogance and disdain for all that goes on before him. The BOE has apparently never explained things to the poor man: He works for the taxpayers. The taxpayers elected the BOE to represent them. The BOE is his boss. But the BOE, instead of managing the man and the school system, cowers before the Great Oz.
We need to pull back the curtain and keep it open.
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