RE : [ Re: DPH: No major mold problems at Pawtucketville Memorial School/Teacher

[Guest guest]

You are so correct!!

As a teacher for 25 years and poisoned by the poor air quality I

know that teachers have NO control (over much of anything!!)

It is not the job of the teacher to monitor nor change the

environment. Nor do they have the time or power to do so.

If a teacher suspects mold or poor air quality and reports such to

the administration everything is done to disqualify the teacher,

ridicule them, punish them. Like the federal government, the school

system does not look kindly on whistleblowers. Status quo is their

motto, the perpetuation of the institution is their goal and woe be

to anyone who threatens this!!!

-- In , ginloi <ginloi@...> wrote:

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> Ken - At the risk of being impertinent, I will tell you that

educators have NO control over their environment. They are poorly or

not schooled in the art of indoor air quality or lack thereof.

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> Had that been the case, I would not have had to go to law school,

as a non-learned educator. I would not have been 'talked down to' in

ENVIROspeak - reminiscent of 1984 - by Orwell.

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> I would not have learned terms like 'ambient' air or " ubiquitous "

nature of mold.

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> Teachers, for all their schooling and degrees have enough to learn

the material for the students, control kids who bring knives, guns,

and drugs to school, be nurses and consolers as well as social

workers.

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> It takes activism on the part of teachers, which they are very poor

at, on a national

> level to take on this menace which should never have darkened their

door.

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> Teachers who are the guardians of the future, via those children

they are entrusted to teach, should not have to worry if they are in

a class with stachybotryis or aspergillus fumigatus which was in

several classrooms where I taught.

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> Custodians and environmental 'engineers' who have a background in

ventilation systems are the trustees in the school, of the air they

all breathe. Teachers have ZERO control.

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