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Monday, July 23, 2007

Joseloff Investigating Mold Issue at King’s Highway School

Westport First Selectman Gordon Joseloff said today the town is working to assure residents that the King’s Highway Elementary School air quality is safe.
King’s Highway Elementary School is subject of mold concerns. File photo

In a statement issued in response to press inquiries about mold issues at the school, Joseloff said: “The Town of Westport, as owner of the King’s Highway Elementary School building, is taking steps to assure residents that the school’s air quality meets safe standards in time for the start of school.

“Last Thursday, I convened a meeting at the school with several town department heads, Sue Jacozzi, director of the Westport Weston Health District, and several school officials to review the situation. We also toured the school, including room 28, about which questions have been raised.

“Today, I met with two representatives of concerned parents and later with Schools Superintendent Elliott Landon, Town Attorney Ira Bloom, and Sue Jacozzi (who participated by phone).

“All of us are focused on the best ways to ensure that Kings Highway and all our schools are environmentally safe and healthy for everyone.

“We are in the process of deciding the best course of action on how to do this and will make additional information available once this is determined.”

Comments:     Comment Policy

Parents are correct to be highly concerned, I applaud this community for organizing and forcing school officials to take corrrective action.

As Director of The Center for School Mold Help, and a disabled teacher from working in two damp and moldy schools in the past 7 years, I can assure you I never would have stepped foot in either of those schools had I known what ill health would follow.

Please visit http://www.schoolmoldhelp.org for extensive resources to understand school mold, mold and health, and what to do about it, backed by science. Our Parent Power page, at http://www.schoolmoldhelp.org/parentpower.html will be a good resource as well.

Mold in our schools is a very serious public health threat that is not being adequately addressed by all health authorities and needs to be. We have found public health authorities all over the nation to be very uninformed about this significant public health problem. They tend to minimize it and don’t conduct proper testing to discover the extent of the problems. Government seems to back government, rather than trying to protect the occupants of damp schools.

I am a former lifelong Fairfield resident, with my family in Southport going back to the mid-1800’s in that area, now living in So.CA. My best to all of you.

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