told the Long Beach Post.<\/a> The district acknowledged in a letter to families that the classroom teacher experienced dizziness and four students suffered nosebleeds.<\/p>\nThe school hired an outside company to test the classroom\u2019s environment. The report found temperatures as high as 102.6 degrees, elevated humidity and low levels of some pollutants, including carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n
But parents say the findings have done little to ease their concerns.<\/p>\n
Children participate in a protest outside of Monroe Elementary School in Long Beach. Facebook\/Katie Jakemer<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re just keeping us in the dark,\u201d said Ricky Marengo, who said his daughter has suffered headaches. He said the district didn\u2019t give out the full report until parents complained.<\/p>\n
Jakemer also questioned whether the testing went far enough, noting that the report recommended follow-up mold sampling. She claimed boxes and paper materials were not moved during the inspection.<\/p>\n
Nosebleeds were one of the symptoms. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThis issue is not resolved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Despite the concerns, the Long Beach Unified School District said some students who were temporarily moved out of the classroom would return Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven that the report found no indoor source of mold or evidence of water damage, the District does not plan further testing at this time,\u201d\u00a0the district said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The response has left families demanding additional testing and a second opinion from an expert. Some parents said they are keeping their children home until they get answers about what is making students sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be able to drop her off and know she\u2019s safe,\u201d\u00a0parent Sofiya Tormo said of her daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Headaches, nosebleeds, fatigue and dizziness \u2014 parents at one Long Beach elementary school are sounding the alarm over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,69491,81683,6492,131,133,132,4182,3586],"class_list":["post-499499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-diseases","tag-elementary-schools","tag-investigations","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-metro","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499499","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=499499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}