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Bath, PA: school mold removal
Read all the articles about a moldy, 40 year old school in Bath, PA that is finally having some work done on it to remove the mold - we hope, properly (see our Remediation page). Students and teachers have complained and been sickened in this school for years. Parents have been very angry about this, accusing the district of knowing that the school was unhealthy and hiding this from them, while their children became ill, suffering. Read all the articles ... below.
By Daryl Nerl | Of The Morning Call
April 21, 2008
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George Wolf Elementary School students will be picked up by bus for school at the regular time this morning. But the rest of the day at the Bath school will be anything but routine.
So it shall remain for the last seven weeks of the school year as the district works around a 40-year-old building it believes has been infested with mold and has for years been the target of complaints about air quality by teachers and students alike.
Once they arrive at George Wolf, kindergartners, first-graders and third-graders will be transferred to other school buses that will take them to other buildings.
Fifth- and sixth-graders will go inside George Wolf, but will have class in a different part of the building deemed safe by district-hired health experts. Sixth-graders will have class in the school's gymnasium in the building's south wing.
Only second- and fourth-graders will continue to attend class in the same rooms, but life for them will also change. With the building's central core closed, there will be no cafeteria for them to get a hot lunch.
Only cold lunches will be available for pupils who continue to go to school at George Wolf, who will have to eat lunch in their classrooms.
Similarly, only cold lunch will be available for first-graders who will attend class at St. John's Lutheran Church in Bath and third-graders who will attend class at the Mary Immaculate Center in Lehigh Township. Free and reduced-price lunches will continue to be offered.
Kindergartners, who will be bused from George Wolf to Siegfried Elementary School in Northampton, will be able to get a hot lunch in that school's cafeteria. For everyone else, however, the district plans to take lunch counts the day before lunch is served for the point of sale system.
Pupils who are being transferred to remote locations will have a shorter school day to accommodate the extra travel time. Classes normally begin at 8:55 a.m. and end shortly after 3 p.m.
Kindergarten and third-grade classes will now go from about 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to allow buses to transport students to and from George Wolf and Siegfried Elementary and the seminary.
First-grade classes will go from about 9:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church. Parents are asked not to bring their children directly to that location because of traffic from the church's day care center.
Parents are welcome to drop off and pick up students from the other two remote locations if they so choose.
TEMPORARY STEPS
George Wolf Elementary School class relocations:
Kindergarten: Students will attend class at Siegfried Elementary School in Northampton.
Grade 1: Classes will move to St. John's Lutheran Church at 206 Main St., Bath.
Grade 2: Classes will remain in the same rooms at George Wolf.
Grade 3: Pupils will be taken to the Mary Immaculate Center, 300 Cherryville Road, Lehigh Township.
Grade 4: Classes will remain in the same rooms at George Wolf.
Grade 5: Classes will be moved within George Wolf to newly constructed classrooms at entrances to the north and south wings of the building.
Grade 6: Classes will be moved to George Wolf's gymnasium.
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