North Gibson Alternative school classes canceled - moldy classrooms

January 19, 2002

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January 17, 2002

Alternative school classes canceled on Wednesday

Corporation looks for new classroom space

By ANDREA HOWE

Editor, the Daily Clarion

PRINCETON-North Gibson Alternative School classes were canceled Wednesday

after the program instructor complained Tuesday night to school board

members about the condition of the rented classrooms.

Princeton Community High School Vice Principal Steve Hauger, who coordinates

the program that is taught by Myron Huey, confirmed Wednesday that there

were no classes that day at the leased space in the old Gibson County Bank

building on the north side of the Princeton square.

Hauger said classes will be temporarily conducted at the high school while

he and other members of a committee named by school board president

Oldham Tuesday night find suitable classroom space. The alternative program

is for students who have difficulty in a traditional class setting. Since

its inception, the program has been conducted at Camp Carson and, when the

fee to Camp Carson doubled, in leased space in the former bank building.

Huey told school board members there's a problem with mold in the building,

but landlord Jeff of Princeton said Tuesday that no one ever contacted

him. Huey said Tuesday night that the county health department and a state

health department environmental engineer have been in the building at his

request.

Board members Key and Lee McConnell criticized Huey for " blindsiding "

by calling in health officials and telling the school board without

talking to him.

Oldham asked Hauger, Huey, board member Jerry Whitehead and McConnell to

study the issue and bring a report to the board February 5.

Hauger said Wednesday that Huey had spoken with him about the classrooms and

he has been " vigorously searching " with Huey for an more suitable location.

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