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I Love my Union
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Just need to rant!!!!
Well, On Wednesdy we had a Mercury spill in my school. A lab closet was being cleaned and a barometer that was broken was in a box and leaking as the school aid was transporting it. This contaminated a whole floor, the elevator and part of the basement.
One might ask, "Gee whiz, where did they put the 2000 studsents while this was cleaned up by the proper agencies?". My answer would be, "Nowhere. We were not allowed to evacuate."
This happened at noon and the school was still open until 7 pm for a basketball game. If The teacher's union did not get wind of this nothing would have been done. Our school was closed for 2 days and we then reported to another school were we sat in the audutorium all day and taught pretend lessons to the 13 children who attended.
There should be many heads rolling for this, but I doubt any will. This was tracked all through the school and I am waiting for the tests on my shoes to be completed to see if it was tracked into my home. I am soooo angry that this went on and if the union did not step in and have the health dept. in to clean and check for levels we would have been forced to teach in an infected site.
Well, On Wednesdy we had a Mercury spill in my school. A lab closet was being cleaned and a barometer that was broken was in a box and leaking as the school aid was transporting it. This contaminated a whole floor, the elevator and part of the basement.
One might ask, "Gee whiz, where did they put the 2000 studsents while this was cleaned up by the proper agencies?". My answer would be, "Nowhere. We were not allowed to evacuate."
This happened at noon and the school was still open until 7 pm for a basketball game. If The teacher's union did not get wind of this nothing would have been done. Our school was closed for 2 days and we then reported to another school were we sat in the audutorium all day and taught pretend lessons to the 13 children who attended.
There should be many heads rolling for this, but I doubt any will. This was tracked all through the school and I am waiting for the tests on my shoes to be completed to see if it was tracked into my home. I am soooo angry that this went on and if the union did not step in and have the health dept. in to clean and check for levels we would have been forced to teach in an infected site.
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Plenty compensation claims coming here I fear. The USA started the compensation fever and now all innocent accident which will always happen in everyday life have a price on their heads. When I was a kid accidents in the chemistry labs and such like were commen place and we never thought anything of them, but now its........how much money can I get for this.........for heavens sake.
I agree Puss,
We are not so angered that it happened, but the manner in which it was handled was apalling. The custodial night crew were forced to work and clean around the areas until the Department of Environmental Protection MADE the boss release them for the night. It was quite bad in certain areas of the school. The admin was told to evacuate by the Lab Coordinators. This why they go for extensive training. Not to mention that the barometer should have been out of the school years ago and that it, and various other chemicals were being disposed of improperly for a week while the store room was being cleaned out. Which means that our sanitation workers were handling all this stuff unprotected. UGH!! I am so angry at the negligence and lack of caring for the welfare of students and staff alike.
We are not so angered that it happened, but the manner in which it was handled was apalling. The custodial night crew were forced to work and clean around the areas until the Department of Environmental Protection MADE the boss release them for the night. It was quite bad in certain areas of the school. The admin was told to evacuate by the Lab Coordinators. This why they go for extensive training. Not to mention that the barometer should have been out of the school years ago and that it, and various other chemicals were being disposed of improperly for a week while the store room was being cleaned out. Which means that our sanitation workers were handling all this stuff unprotected. UGH!! I am so angry at the negligence and lack of caring for the welfare of students and staff alike.
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My father was a dentist, and he kept the mercury for mixing fillings in a small stone jar. In the early 1930's, my brother and I were allowed to play with this mercury. We had a tin tray, and we could pour some blobs of mercury on to it and push them about. It was great fun, and we are both still alive in our eighties.
Thank you all for your responses. I do not think there was serious risk to me personally, but some were in close contact. I appreciate the idea that years ago mercury was commonplace and played with, but in the situation a gov't agency closed us down. Surely they would not do it for no reason. I think I am so annoyed b/c this is not the first time we've been put in this type of situation. We have numerous students with TB and have not been notified, we have fires put out by staff with smoke so thick students are taken to the hospital with asthma attacks and still no evacuation or calls to the fire dept. for fear of getting a strike against us. It goes on and on. I love teaching and care deeply for my students. That's why I stay.
Again, thanks for all your responses.
Again, thanks for all your responses.
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