I use to go to a high school named
Walter MacAdoo Williams High School. It sounds
rich and
snobbish, but in fact, the
ceilings were leaking and the
walls were crumbling. In the room where I took
Latin, there was
extensive damage to the walls, where the roof had begun to leak. The students were
notified, several months after this had been noticed and
analyzed. The
dust falling from the walls was
asbestos, but there was so little that we don’t need to
worry. So we didn’t. We just went on about our
daily duties.
As gullible as we may have been, we know a bad thing when we see one, and this came when two men entered the room one day with full body breathing devices (think "The Abyss") and monitors that would beep. The beeping was pretty consistent until they got near the walls, when the devices would go crazy, beeping rapidly. And yet, they told us this was nothing to be concerned about…. Right…
I think the climax of this fiasco came when I was passing by the faculty lounge and a sign was posted "safe school committee meeting moved to room 314 due to high asbestos ratings in the lounge". There you go people. Stupidity at work here in our school systems.