Lies or Lack of Knowledge

At the September 24th Westport Board of Education meeting a parent in a third grade classroom with a functioning air purifier asked why the school administration and Landon refused to allow a teacher across the hall to plug in a matching air purifier that another parent had purchased for another third grade room.

Landon forcefully declared that this parent was wrong and that no such air purifier existed across the hall.

A few minutes later, the parent who purchased the non-existent air purifier spoke. She stated that it did exist, that she and her husband bought it on the recommendation of their child's doctor. She stated that it was in the classroom and that the school administration would not allow it to be operated.

Since the BOE meeting last month, the administration has disconnected the original air purifier that was running in the third grade class. We now have two third grade classrooms with non-operating air purifiers.