Jan 11 2008
Riverside Elementary – Update!
It’s been MAYBE a couple hours since my post about the concern of the number of cases of cancer at Riverside Elementary..
My daughter came home today with her newsletter from the school…
Here’s what it said..
“On Tuesday evening I know that many families were surprised to see that Riverside Elementary was the focus of not only our local paper but also to many news programs.”
“As outlined in the letter written by (the superintendent), “the Board is working with the BC Cancer Research Center to help develop an appropiate plan of investigation” and “the school has been tested extensively in the past using the most sophisticated methods available and in all cases no risk to the health of staff or students was ever found.”
There was more to this part of the newsletter, but those were the key things I am going to post here..
So.. to the parent who was suggesting that we pull our daughter from the school, why don’t you get out of this ”The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” response, and actually WAIT for some actual facts.. If you over-reacted everytime that you heard or thought something was happening/going to happen you’d be hiding in a dark corner in the fetal position… Or maybe you do..
I have no intention of pulling my daughter from the school just because of speculation. I am watching to see what happens here.. I will make an decision once I feel that I have enough facts..
I was a student attending riverside at the time of the mold outbreak… Its very nerve raking to see other students and teachers I knew and grew up with, were in the same classes as me have cancer that might possibly related to the mold problem. The only thing i can suggest for the time being to settle peoples nerves is to make sure you know whats going on (facts). I’m now 17 and as soon as I saw this going on my nerves hit the fan. What i’m currently doing is getting tested to be sure because i don’t want to take the risk of missing any sign that could later lead on to something fatal. I attended riverside elementary from 1995-2002. During grade 6/7 there was buses that would take us to the old samual ribinson because of a huge mold outbreak and re-construction of most of the school. My brother had to stay behind and he had such a bad reaction to the mold his finger nails would fall off. The mold would spread very quickly and started going in to books students would read in class. So I advise students and parents who’ve had/have students attending riverside to pay close attention the the facts being given in either the news or papers and don’t freak out the best thing to do is either go get checked out by a doctor or follow the facts.
Thank you