Parents and teachers at a Bridgeport elementary school say that Chicago Public Schools delayed for months testing that last week found high levels of lead in three rooms, including a special education classroom.
delayed for months testing that last week found high levels of lead in three rooms, including a special education classroom.
"We are taking this situation extremely seriously," McClellan Principal Carrie Ann Cole wrote in a letter to parents last week. "CPS strives to address all paint when it begins to flake and fall. Lead-based paint is not a danger unless disturbed and ingested," the statement said, adding that all classrooms in the building will be tested for lead over the upcoming winter break.
"My son is a medically fragile child. If he has any type of lead in his system, how is it going to affect him?" asked Bertha Alderete. Koren Stewart is going to get her twin daughters and son to a doctor for blood tests. The twins, both special education students in the seventh grade, have been sick for months, she said. They were both in one of the classrooms with the high lead levels. Her son is in fifth grade.
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