School is set to continue as scheduled this week at Black Mountain Middle School after the Poway Unified School District announced mold and moisture issues shut down several classroom.<\/p>\n
Twelve classrooms were thoroughly cleaned for mold by an industrial hygienist this weekend.<\/p>\n
They are expected to be re-tested tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n
As of now, no classes are going on in those affected rooms, but the ordeal has left parents feeling frustrated.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long has she been exposed to toxic mold in classrooms during the time she\u2019s been a student in Poway Unified School District?\u201d Jennifer Dahlquist said.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the question she and many parents whose kids attend Black Mountain Middle School want answers to after they received a letter from the district Saturday night notifying them about mold and moisture in some classrooms. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Today Poway Unified released a summary of the lab results<\/a> from tests an industrial hygienist conducted on Aug. 15 and Aug. 18. The district also released the preliminary air sample results synopsis,<\/a> and the room-by-room summary.<\/a><\/p>\n In total, 12 classrooms and two additional rooms were tested.<\/p>\n Half of the classrooms came back with high or moderate levels of mold. They include rooms 1001, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015, and1016.<\/p>\n The industrial hygienist recommended additional investigation, cleaning and remediation for those rooms, which the district said will happen on Monday.<\/p>\n The district notified parents that the affected classrooms won\u2019t be reopened until the next round of testing is complete.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have appreciated an email on the day that my daughter was taken out of the classroom,\u201d Dahlquist said.<\/p>\n Jennifer\u2019s daughter, Elliette, is an eighth-grade student at Black Mountain Middle School whose classroom was relocated.<\/p>\n She told her mother they were relocated the second day of classes, but Dahlquist didn\u2019t find out about it until last week when her daughter told her. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a feeling that there\u2019s a lack of transparency,\u201d Dahlquist said.<\/p>\n \u201cI think every one of our schools needs to be thoroughly inspected for mold,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Poway Unified said the cause of the mold remains under investigation.<\/p>\n A spokesperson confirmed to NBC 7 San Diego that school will be in Session Monday Aug. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School is set to continue as scheduled this week at Black Mountain Middle School after the Poway Unified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[36746,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-441790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-poway-unified-school-district","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}