A lot of schools seem to have had unusually bad mold this year. The weather is more h7mid than ever and the HVACs were not running adequately to fight it. Our custodians are re-cleaning all the moldy classroom rugs, but drying them inside with big fans. We aren’t confident the mold is being remediated effectively and the school continues to be hot and humid so I expect it will regrow.

And, now they are giving up millions in federal funds that help poor and special needs kids.

Gee. How about the millions for additional political staff for school board members?

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Anonymous wrote:Does your school have an extreme mold issue? Watch NBC 4 news at 5:30 tonight for a story on one of the largest FCPS schools!

How can they justify spending over $150M on King Abdullah Academy if they have unremediated mold issues at their current schools?

What are you talking about?

Can you not read? Remediating mold at existing schools ought to be a higher priority than buying a new one.

Obviously. But what is King Abdullah Academy?

On June 12 the FCPS Board approved purchase of a private academy that was shutting down operations: https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/06/16/fcps-surprises-with-purchase-of-discontinuing-herndon-private-school/

They could take care of a lot of mold for the $150 million (and that's just the initial purchase price) they are planning to spend on this building.

They don't care if teachers and kids get sick in other, neglected buildings so long as they have a photo op in another year or two.

Shame on them.

Anonymous wrote:Every school I’ve worked at in 25 years has had terrible mold. The hvac systems are bad and roofs leak. It doesn’t matter if the buildings are old or new.

I need to get moving and go in but my dull headache is back. I always get it during my the year when I’m in the building. I didn’t have it all summer. The working conditions are so bad.

Yup and you get these guys that come in looking annoyed and say we are here to check levels they hold up their machine and say all good. It's ridiculous as teachers and students are on their 5th sinus infection and it's October.True story.

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Anonymous wrote:Does your school have an extreme mold issue? Watch NBC 4 news at 5:30 tonight for a story on one of the largest FCPS schools!

How can they justify spending over $150M on King Abdullah Academy if they have unremediated mold issues at their current schools?

What are you talking about?

Can you not read? Remediating mold at existing schools ought to be a higher priority than buying a new one.

Obviously. But what is King Abdullah Academy?

On June 12 the FCPS Board approved purchase of a private academy that was shutting down operations: https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/06/16/fcps-surprises-with-purchase-of-discontinuing-herndon-private-school/

Every school I’ve worked at in 25 years has had terrible mold. The hvac systems are bad and roofs leak. It doesn’t matter if the buildings are old or new.

I need to get moving and go in but my dull headache is back. I always get it during my the year when I’m in the building. I didn’t have it all summer. The working conditions are so bad.

My school has mold in a lot of rooms right now. Industrial dehumidifiers - LOUd ones - run constantly in our library. Several rooms had mold a week ago and there are large temporary dehumidifiers running in those right now too. They empty into giant rolling garbage bins (the tall ones used for custodians at the end of the day for all the trash) and every morning, they are are half full. Much of the building was built below grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Really gross pictures of mold at Hayfield. No doubt the principal was too busy recruiting the next group of football coaches/players and Reid was too busy deciding which boundaries she wants to change to pay attention to classrooms with black mold.

Reid needs to go. She's an abject failure.

Who would replace her? They had very few applicants the last three times.

Wouldn’t matter, anyone would be better. Would save on salary costs and legal fees defending Reid’s dumb decisions.

100%

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Anonymous wrote:Does your school have an extreme mold issue? Watch NBC 4 news at 5:30 tonight for a story on one of the largest FCPS schools!

How can they justify spending over $150M on King Abdullah Academy if they have unremediated mold issues at their current schools?

What are you talking about?

Can you not read? Remediating mold at existing schools ought to be a higher priority than buying a new one.

Obviously. But what is King Abdullah Academy?

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Anonymous wrote:My trailer had a leaky roof last year, no air conditioning the entire year before that, and currently the a/c shuts off at z4:00 pm and over non school days, so when I come in each morning the condensation is so bad I can literally mop water off the desks and glide across the floor like ice skates. I can’t make copies the day before or the papers are soggy the next day.

I have no doubt my walls are filled with mold.

The mold at Hayfield was not confined to trailers.

Hayfield doesn’t haven’t trailers. This is in the building. https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/local/northern-virginia/parents-say-fairfax-county-school-has-mold-water-damage/3974740/

Exactly. So any suggestion that just getting kids out of trailers fixes the problem is wrong. They have remediation issues in some of their main buildings.

Anonymous wrote:Does your school have an extreme mold issue? Watch NBC 4 news at 5:30 tonight for a story on one of the largest FCPS schools!

There could have be better use of the fund that FCPS is going to spend on Reid's 4 body guards.

Mold has been an issue for years! They send someone to look at it, but there is rarely a permanent fix. At least if you are in a trailer or modular room you have windows that open to let in sun and fresh air. You can take mitigation actions yourself. People need to realize there are buildings with few windows and roofs that leak! The only action that gets even a partial fix is if parents protest loudly and often!

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Anonymous wrote:Really gross pictures of mold at Hayfield. No doubt the principal was too busy recruiting the next group of football coaches/players and Reid was too busy deciding which boundaries she wants to change to pay attention to classrooms with black mold.

Reid needs to go. She's an abject failure.

Who would replace her? They had very few applicants the last three times.

Wonder if would be more appealing now with over 400, 4 personal agents, increase of direct staff, etc?

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Anonymous wrote:Really gross pictures of mold at Hayfield. No doubt the principal was too busy recruiting the next group of football coaches/players and Reid was too busy deciding which boundaries she wants to change to pay attention to classrooms with black mold.

Reid needs to go. She's an abject failure.

Who would replace her? They had very few applicants the last three times.

Wouldn’t matter, anyone would be better. Would save on salary costs and legal fees defending Reid’s dumb decisions.