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The Government has deliberately excluded asbestos from an unprecedented review of the condition of the country's schools because it knows that tackling the risks to schoolchildren and teachers could cost hundreds of millions, critics claim.
Campaigners reacted with fury last night as it emerged a year-long survey of England's 23,000 schools will examine every aspect of buildings – from classroom decoration to whether fire alarms and toilets are in working order – but will specifically exclude asbestos, the most serious threat of all to staff and pupils.
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I really cant believe this as we have campaigned and were winning with Labour who where going to rebuild all Junior Schools and take Asbestos away from young Lungs
There is a film out where they slammed a door and filmed the result as Asbestos swirled in the air.
À tous mes amis du forum thankyou pour toutes vos pensées agréables et avec son amour derrière moi je lutterai contre mon conflit avec un esprit de postive et le triomphe
À tous mes amis du forum thankyou pour toutes vos pensées agréables et avec son amour derrière moi je lutterai contre mon conflit avec un esprit de postive et le triomphe
Ceilings and walls cupboards and pipes and the worse are all the Schools that have Asbestos because they have Porta cabins.
http://www.asbestosexposureschools.co.uk/
My friend started this site because all his wife did was teach and pin things on a wall she died with Mesothelioma
À tous mes amis du forum thankyou pour toutes vos pensées agréables et avec son amour derrière moi je lutterai contre mon conflit avec un esprit de postive et le triomphe
It's a very real problem as asbestos was widely used in "cheap" building projects which schools have invariably been.
The worrying part is that once again the Government has chosen to distort the truth to cover things up - you would think they would have learned their lesson from Iraq and Tony Blair's condemnation........
But no, this is a deliberate policy to cut costs yet again..........
Thanks Mavis for the information, it is saddening for all of us to read....
Dave
37 years teaching science including chemostry where we KNOW we used asbestos paper for the first 5 years of my career........
and we know that the lab next dor to mine had asbestos in the window sills - fortunately it was removed by experts over the summer holidays with full precautions (as far as we were told)
This is disgusting. I am totally amazed that our wonderful government can't/won't take action other than seeming to advise that doors are not slammed or pins pushed into walls.
I am sure you will be doing your bit Mavis and good luck. I hope every single head teacher is aware of the danger and threatens to close down their school until a proper survey is carried out and all risks eliminated. My sister in law is one such head and a good friend another, I will make sure they are aware.
And still it all goes on!! The dangers of asbestos of all sorts are now well known but the authorities decide to bury their heads up their bottoms! As motormouth said, it's disgusting. It's obscene that many more folk have to suffer as Mavis is doing and the government doesn't give a shot!!
I remember taking a timber/asbestos garage to pieces in 1978. The sections were thrown on a flat-bed wagon, then taken to our house where I reassembled it all. I then made a shed with a roof of corrugated asbestos. To that point, the only advice I had had was to wet the asbestos in the area of any saw cutting.
I never realised the true dangers associated with the stuff until the mid-80s. I had learnt, quite incidentally, that, if a kiddie smashed a table corner through the classroom wall, I had to report the fact. The school secretary would summon the experts, the children would leave the room whilst the air was tested and the resultant hole simply sealed with a sticker, like the one in the photo. After a few minutes, back to normal.
I was one of those teachers who loved to celebrate the children's work by thoughtfully displaying it on walls and ceilings for all to see. But I never, for one minute, realised that, by doing so, I was releasing thousands of asbestos fibres into the air for the children and me to inhale.
I guess I am also guilty of encouraging children to inhale those fibres because I would willingly allow volunteers to beat the crap out of the chalkboard rubber. I thought nothing when I saw a child or two standing in a cloud of dust which I now believe contained levels of asbestos fibres.
I still have sticks of chalk in my old brief case but, thankfully, mass communication in a classroom is achieved nowadays via electronic whiteboards, or laptops, with various forms of Power-Point type computer-aided presentations. So plenty of advancement in education... it's just so sad that the government's attitude, based largely on cost and inconvenience, is so retarded.
I wish our future generations a successful and healthy, asbestos-free future.
PS It's well worth reading the links that Mavis has provided. Please don't let's have MHF members with heads being put where the sun don't shine!!
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I studied in the "annex" at King Edward Retford for two years.
It was an asbestos clad temporary classroom that stood for over 60years.
The implications to local residents who live next to the school must be enormouse when the building is eventually demolished.
Dave p
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To say nothing of the decades of trapped asbestos dust on London
underground ! !
morm
My son, who know's all about Mesothelioma as I have it and have just had another session of chemo today, Has a dad with asbestos damage in his lungs (thickenings) has now, as a fire alarm engineer in London realizes he too works with Asbestos in lift shafts, ceiling voids etc etc, as there are now signs as Unclenorm has posted all over the place in big buildings where he works.
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As motormouth said, it's disgusting. 
Let´s keep fighting with Mavis, Ray and all those in need!! 
