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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Older MCPS buildings have asbestos. At our W elementary, there once was a pipe leak that caused mold after a snow storm. Staff and children were in the building while custodians cleaned up the moldy asbestos ceiling tiles by hand with no protective gear.

It would be in the public interest to keep data of cases of cancer for MCPS staff and students.[/quote]

I’d be most concerned about the staff who did the clean up in that case.[/quote]

The school was Beverly Farms if anyone needs to know. There were other [b]instances of bats in the ceiling that caused chunks of ceiling tiles to fall in the upstairs classrooms[/b]. [b]A staff member had a broken chunk tested which tested positive for asbestos[/b].

The old school with these problems was torn down years ago so these are not current problems. However, cancer from exposure may take decades to develop in school staff and students. Mezothelioma would be the cancer caused by asbestos. MCPS never notified staff and students of their exposure.[/quote]

I was thinking, there might be a way to determine whether MCPS has asbestos-related injuries.  You could search either court cases or file a FOIA with Department of Education Office of Civil Rights.  Both would list injury complaints.

If the asbestos was in tiles, then it might be stable.  However, that's not what another poster said.  They described what sounded like crumbling ceiling tile?  That is fryable material.  There is another instance of possible disease transmission from bat guano.  From either aspect, failure to properly inspect and remediate could be considered gross negligence, especially if the test results were positive.[/quote]

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