San Diego Toxic Mold Story: Sick Schools

This segment, from San Diego Insider, includes interviews related to a number of toxic mold exposures within San Diego County, including several San Diego Unified School District schools and an apartment. Tom Mitchell, a harried school district representative, nervously denies that anyone got sick in the two schools, despite the statements of over 130 people from Sherman Elementary and Kennedy Elementary. Both schools were torn down, ultimately, with ludicrous reasons given by the school district. Among those interviewed are Susan Brinchman, Executive Director of The Center for School Mold Help, www.schoolmoldhelp.org, a San Diego school mold victim, and Janet, a teacher also made ill by school mold exposure. Some of this footage was used, by permission, in the haunting documentary movie, Black Mold Exposure, produced by Michael Roland Williams (2009), www.blackmoldmovie.com. This portion of San Diego Insider, a Cox Communications news program in San Diego, CA, first aired on July 19, 2006. Reproduced on YouTube with permission of the Cox Executive Producer, Jeanne Rawdin.

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• school mold
• toxic mold
• Sick Building Syndrome
• San Diego
• Susan Brinchman
• Michael Roland Williams
• Sherman Elementary
• sick schools
• environmental illness
• asthma

[eyetheskies]

This is inexcusable.

Those schools should be checked by professionals every year or so.

Mold is a life problem that doesn't go away quickly when its in your system. If you know ANYONE who is living near mold especially after wisdom teeth removal, you must get them to a better place.

I have to eat RAW UNCOOKED GARLIC everyday to do battle with the mold that infected my system after my wisdom teeth was removed!

[sicklibrarian]

The story repeats school to school. The names change, but the story is the same. Even when a school is in the face of the reality of mold, "remediation" done improperly creates even a greater risk. A district facing bugetary issues is not going to spend money policing itself for good indoor air. Inevitably they wait for widespread illness, and then usually deny it.