Video Parents fear school mold sickens kids

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Parents fear school mold

sickens kids

Goddard High parents confront board

Web Producer: Bill Diven

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ROSWELL, N. M. (KRQE-KBIM) - Dozens of parents and their teens

showed up for a school board meeting in Roswell Tuesday night to

voice concern over what they believe is toxic mold in the walls of

Goddard High School.

One after another, parents addressed the board about fears that

toxic mold is making their kids sick.

One parent quoted her child as saying, " Mom I can't breathe. My

asthma is flaring up. "

Another, Kyser, said her daughter " started showing very

strange signs of blue hands, shortness of breath "

It all started in the fall of 2007 when one student got very sick.

After extensive testing doctors told her parents that she had been

exposed to dangerous toxins produced by mold.

In response, her father, launched his own investigation

and a Web site . Since then, more Goddard parents have come forward

with their stories.

" I don't know for sure that there is a problem at Goddard, " Kyser

said. " What I can tell you as her parent, her father and I, we have

taken her to her primary care physician.

" We have therapy sessions set up with alternative doctors that will

begin next week. We are trying to rule in or rule out whatever is

going on with our daughter. "

Some parents have pulled their kids out of Goddard.

Others are waiting and hoping the district will respond to a lawsuit

filed by requesting an air quality inspection. He's even

offered to pay for it.

" You're not the enemy, " parent told the board. " Mold is

the enemy, and that's what we're fighting against.

" We want to work within the system, and you are the system. We have

to turn to you in order to get relief for what we perceive as a

problem. "

The board members thanked everyone who came and shared their

stories, but made no comment on what will happen next.

The district has already hired three outside contractors to do air

quality inspections. They said they found nothing