Sunday, August 04, 2019

UFT SAYS LEAD PAINT IN ALL CLASSROOMS SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF THIS SUMMER

The press and parents may be worried about  children being exposed to lead in classrooms but the UFT is not overly concerned.

From Gene Mann's Organizer:

Lead

Custodians did visual inspections in LYFE/3K/Pre-K/K and first grade in late June. If damaged paint was noted, DSF third-party inspectors went out and tested the paint for lead. If the paint was not lead, students stayed in the room and custodians will paint. If lead, students were moved and the School Construction Authority is remediating. Rooms will be cleaned and dust wipe samples will be taken. All of this will will be done by first day of school.

This is not really all that different from what typically done every summer, but now the DOE is increasing the frequency of the inspections and custodians are required to document this centrally. So in theory, there is some more transparency and accountability in this new process. In addition, the results will be posted online.

This should have low impact on most members and students as this is happening in the summer and the goal is to have every room ready in the summer. 



More transparency and accountability?


  • The UFT is echoing the DOE once again.


If this is something they do every summer, then the parents' question needs to be asked to the UFT as well as DOE.

Here it is from last week:

Which brings up the question, if they had remediated them last year, as they claimed, how effective is the process by which they address this?


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would you expect anything else? This job is a joke. Anybody who goes into this needs their head examined.

Anonymous said...

They will fix that when they fix student attendance, student discipline, student inability to read and write, the open market fraud, grade fraud, etc..

Bronx ATR said...

The UFT comments are indicative of their entire indifferent, dismissive attitude on everything. One thing we can all rest assured of - there is no lead paint in the UFT offices at 52 Broadway. They also have heat, hot water, air conditioning, a chef maintained employee cafeteria (with a daily low priced fixed price lunch and double salaries for all. Two years ago I was covering large District 75 classes in a restroom surrounded by toilets and sinks. The kicker was it was the best classroom in building. Please don’t concern them with lead paint in third world countries like the Bronx.