Mold found in mobile classroom


Sep 21, 2006 04:47 PM EDT

WILMINGTON -- Some students at Blair Elementary School in Wilmington are breathing easier tonight. School administrators removed them from a temporary classroom after health officials found high levels of mold present.

School administrators say a teacher who worked inside the temporary mobile classroom told them back in June that she saw mold. Now a mother of one of the students wants to know why they didn't do anything about it until recently.
Britton Jackson is a student at Blair Elementary. He suffers from asthma and his mother says it's gotten worse since starting school. So she asked the school to have her child's mobile classroom tested for mold.

A few days later test results came back positive. Now she wants to know why the school waited so long.
 Nicole Jackson is Britton's mother. She said, "I think every parent needs to know that if their children are coming home with allergy problems they need to look into it further."

She says it wasn't until last week that health officials did a visual inspection and took samples from the classroom.
Mrs. Jackson also says she made several requests to the school to take the children out of the classroom before those test results came back. School administrators denied those requests.

The principal of Blair Elementary says the reason for the wait was that there simply was not enough evidence of a problem to warrant the testing sooner.

Students are now out of the classroom and the mold is being professionally cleaned. 

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