Electric dangers at SSMA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are the teachers not required to check the premises before the children go out? Maybe even walk around and watch what the children are touching. Most schools require their staff to take a safety class. As a parent imagine receiving that phone call. This is absolutely unacceptable! Heath and safety should go do an anonymous visit and shut them down!

I agree that this is unacceptable, AND health and safety should get involved. I find it hard to blame the teacher for not checking for live wires.

In the health and safety courses for teachers they actually talk about looking for live wires, exposed nails, splinters, any piles, and other things. Is it always the first thing on the teachers radar no but should they know when something needs to be repaired and to keep the children away.

I’ve been a DC teacher for a long time and have never had any health and safety classes.

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I’ve never walked the premises of the playground to check for live wires. I don’t think you can blame the teacher for this.

Agree this is a crazy thing to put on teachers. If they see one and report it, that’s nice, but it’s not their role.

+1. Seriously, they are not doing a full sweep of the playground. They are busy enough trying to watch all the kids.

And no I’m not a teacher but a parent with no kids at the school.

+1. No way an individual teacher is doing a “sweep” of the playground before the kids play every time. Our custodians do do a once over of the playground on Monday morning before kids go out, which seems like a reasonable balance. I think if this live wire was there for ages and no one noticed/cared, it’s a big issue. If this was a new thing from storm or rodent damage or whatever, then I think it could have happened anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are the teachers not required to check the premises before the children go out? Maybe even walk around and watch what the children are touching. Most schools require their staff to take a safety class. As a parent imagine receiving that phone call. This is absolutely unacceptable! Heath and safety should go do an anonymous visit and shut them down!

I agree that this is unacceptable, AND health and safety should get involved. I find it hard to blame the teacher for not checking for live wires.

In the health and safety courses for teachers they actually talk about looking for live wires, exposed nails, splinters, any piles, and other things. Is it always the first thing on the teachers radar no but should they know when something needs to be repaired and to keep the children away.

I’ve been a DC teacher for a long time and have never had any health and safety classes.

+1

I’ve never walked the premises of the playground to check for live wires. I don’t think you can blame the teacher for this.

Agree this is a crazy thing to put on teachers. If they see one and report it, that’s nice, but it’s not their role.

+1. Seriously, they are not doing a full sweep of the playground. They are busy enough trying to watch all the kids.

And no I’m not a teacher but a parent with no kids at the school.

+1. No way an individual teacher is doing a “sweep” of the playground before the kids play every time. Our custodians do do a once over of the playground on Monday morning before kids go out, which seems like a reasonable balance. I think if this live wire was there for ages and no one noticed/cared, it’s a big issue. If this was a new thing from storm or rodent damage or whatever, then I think it could have happened anywhere.

If I had to guess, I would say rodent damage and new. It’s a big issue in the city. We had rodents go under our car and chew thru things.

[Anonymous]

The over all blame is the school. No matter who is responsible for checking the playground it did not happen. Which ultimately is on the school. I hope this child is going to be ok! I hope this family and other families at this school fight for the safety of their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today a child at SSMA was playing on the playground and got electrocuted by live wires. Ambulance and fire department was called.

The culprit was apparently an outdoor outlet that is broken and the wires were exposed.

How on earth does this school stay open?

Shocking.

[Anonymous]

MV parents would have run to the press about this already

[Anonymous]

The owner of the space is required to keep it up to code, but the tenants are supposed to report issues.

[Anonymous]

Obviously the school is responsible - how is this even a question? And yes, teachers need to be aware of obvious safety hazards.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how the child is doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the teachers not required to check the premises before the children go out? Maybe even walk around and watch what the children are touching. Most schools require their staff to take a safety class. As a parent imagine receiving that phone call. This is absolutely unacceptable! Heath and safety should go do an anonymous visit and shut them down!

No we are not required to check for live wires and are not required to take such classes. I will tell you security guards take a sweep of the playground but I’m certain they aren’t looking for something as obscure as a live wire.

It’s absolutely not the teacher’s fault.

[Anonymous]

At the beginning of this school year the playground was condemed. The principal (see the post about the love triangle) screwed some gates over the broken parts and they started allowing kids to go back out.

If you think the playground is bad you should see the interior. The ceiling collapsed in an office while the social worker (fired because of the love triangle) was seeing a student. It had been flooding in my classroom - above that office - for weeks but no one seemed to mind too much.

[Anonymous]

is SSMA going to have a whole new teaching slate yet again next year?

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you guys need to head to the PCSB public comment period and each testify. If they have 10 or 15 parents in a row it may embarrass them into doing something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are the teachers not required to check the premises before the children go out? Maybe even walk around and watch what the children are touching. Most schools require their staff to take a safety class. As a parent imagine receiving that phone call. This is absolutely unacceptable! Heath and safety should go do an anonymous visit and shut them down!

I agree that this is unacceptable, AND health and safety should get involved. I find it hard to blame the teacher for not checking for live wires.

Are you for real? Teachers should think "i wonder if we'll have any live wires today" Bonkers.

Also - who has time to go out ahead of the class? I'm going out at the same time as them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the beginning of this school year the playground was condemed. The principal (see the post about the love triangle) screwed some gates over the broken parts and they started allowing kids to go back out.

If you think the playground is bad you should see the interior. The ceiling collapsed in an office while the social worker (fired because of the love triangle) was seeing a student. It had been flooding in my classroom - above that office - for weeks but no one seemed to mind too much.

This is so insane!

[Anonymous]

Man, so sad and preventable. I think Howard still owns the property so they are probably ultimately responsible. Many parents tried to make improvements and work with admin. That process made many realize that the PCSB is a joke.