The Center for School Mold Help

The following testimonies give true accounts of the devastating human toll that mold takes on the occupants of a sick building. To share your testimony, click here. 

Meet Joellen, a mold-disabled CT teacher, whose determination and commitment to eliminating mold in schools helped craft groundbreaking school mold prevention laws that are now in effect in the state of CT. Joellen has recently won an award from the Healthy Schools Network for her successful efforts.

Diagnosed with MCS caused by mold exposure in the library, Angela Page has won her Worker's Compensation case.  Read librarian/teacher/activist Angela Page's story, about a very ill, community-minded woman who is concerned that the large school that made her sick is still open for business and experiencing moisture problems.

Read about Annie, a very ill, former library teacher in Washington State, who recently won her Worker's Compensation case in a stunning reversal, with her appeal heard in a trial by jury.

Follow the story of Nathan Hale High School through photos, official statements, news articles and more.  View photos submitted by a Seattle School District parent to document water damage and resultant mold at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, WA.  In addition to photos, you can read the school's statement, health risks as reported by a contracted company, share your thoughts, and much more.  We continually post related articles and information.

This Boston Kindergarten teacher, Ginny, was sent to teach, along with her mostly minority Kindergarteners, in Room One at Oliver Hazard Perry Elementary School in South Boston, a room that the school administration had closed previously, due to mold, which was visible on the walls. She (a healthy individual beforehand) developed a serious fungal infection of the lungs called Aspergillosis. The disbelieving teacher who offered to take the room, in a staff meeting, when Ginny became disabled (fighting for her life) has just died of a virulent breast cancer that went to her brain, developed within two years of working in Room One.

Follow her testimonies as she speaks before the Boston City Council and Massachusetts legislators in support of legislation, tirelessly advocating to protect others in schools from mold-related illnesses like hers.

Read parent Jeanne Black's testimony as she presents a speech to her state legislature about the dangers of school mold, which impacted her daughter's health permanently, starting in middle school. Jeanne was responsible for the development of a WI bill that has not yet passed. Read a description of the proposed WI legislation by clicking here and click here to read the full text of SB 325.     

 Brookfield Central High School senior, Emily Ertel, describes her school's mold problem.

This very young teacher fell ill with life-threatening symptoms, after working in a moldy classroom as a teacher in training.  She has worked her way back to teaching and shares her story with us anonymously, to protect her job status.

Colin's parents were called to school to pick him up. "It was even thought that perhaps he was faking, because a group of his friends were sick.  When we arrived at school, the Health Room was filled with his friends and they appeared to be sick.  Some were now vomiting and others had fevers. Colin was having trouble breathing, was lightheaded, had a severe headache and was having trouble walking.  We were told to escort our son to his locker, as he was having trouble walking...."

This young, well-spoken CA teacher brought attention to school mold, leading to a large fine by CAL-OSHA. Tanya felt that she was retaliated against, later, when she was removed from the school.

Demonstrated abnormalities in the brain of a child, leading to an autistic-like syndrome that were proven, in a CA courtroom, to be a response to mold.

 "Carolyn Hayes has been teaching at Brevard Community College for 11 years, until, she says, the mold got so bad she couldn't take it anymore.Hayes didn't want to leave her career because of a couple of spots that look like mold or water stained ceiling tiles. But the Brevard Community College professor says her health was in jeopardy every time she taught in the library at the Cocoa campus."You can't breathe and it's hard to get air out and you wheeze and your ribcage hurts," she says."...