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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check your inflammatory statements at the door, people. We parents have been AT the school and HAVE SEEN the deep cleaning with our own eyes.[/quote]

Really?  DCPS let you hang out as Joe Public to the wee hours to witness this cleaning of a "contaminated zone"?  That sounds fanciful and inflammatory itself.  So you were the supervisor?  What's your training in this area to know what it was that you witnessed?

From what I got out of the PTA meeting last night with the principal there is that 2 rooms were deep cleaned (every toy, etc. wiped down) and the rest of the building was cleaned by washing down general surfaces.  It's not clear that there was a supervisor trained in this "deep cleaning" present.  Apparently DCPS janitorial staff did the cleaning, so forget the vendor work-order FOIA. The cocktail for making the deep cleaning solution came off the Internet, and I don't know who oversaw the titration of ingredients to make the proper solution.  Meningitis was played down, and characterized like some people get the flu and a few weaker ones will get pneumonia, but all will self-resolve and be OK so don't worry.  One person I know who got meningitis got a bad brain injury and hasn't been the same since (pain meds all the time, disabled), and the other was in the ICU for a couple of weeks and part of that was in a coma. Whether bacterial or viral, it's not the common cold.  We don't know how the 2 from Peabody who are sick are doing - at home, in the ICU, in the hospital, enjoying sick leave, whatever.

Whether the foregoing constitutes proper action or not, I hope all in the building stop getting ill.  But as a prior PP said earlier this morning, it is like pulling teeth to try to arrive at accurate info and since I'm no expert in the area I still don't know if I got the straight dope.[/quote]

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