Posted on 08/24/2026 7:46:37 PM PDT by george76
RICHMOND, Va. โ Barack Obama Elementary School will not open this week due to mold, and students will temporarily relocate to Clark Springs Elementary School while remediation continues.
Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras said in a message to families Monday that teachers and staff setting up classrooms discovered "additional areas of mold growth (for example, behind bulletin board paper)," prompting the district to send everyone home for additional cleaning and testing.
"All of this is realistically going to take several days. So we will not be returning to the Obama building this week. Our goal is to do so by Monday," Kamras wrote. "In the interim, we are working to get Clark Springs Elementary School ready as a temporary space. Weโll have more information about that by tomorrow. For now, school is closed on Tuesday."
Roller coaster is a good word," said Samieh, a parent of students at the school for the past seven years, of the past five days. "The information keeps kind of cascading of 'This is what's going to happen. Oh, actually, it's not what's going to happen. Oh, we're good. Oh, we're not good.'."
The district had already pushed back Barack Obama Elementary's first day from Monday, Aug. 24, after air quality tests showed elevated mold spore levels inside the building.
Kamras said the mold growth stemmed from an HVAC outage that caused mold to spread in the school's basement and on some furniture. The district also received reports of rodents in several rooms.
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Samieh said it is not the first time there have been mold issues at the school, with issues during the 2023-24 school year. She said seeing this happen again makes her feel like Obama Elementary is not as a priority as other schools
Seems fitting...
Fully agree. That whole thing was ridiculous.
It’s not just the mild. It’s rodents, too...
Why is the rodent issue getting so little coverage?
Oh fer....
This is from 2004. On the bleeping backlog.
https://oig.justice.gov/archives/reports/OJP/a0502/intro.htm
WTH?!
From 2010, five years after the passage of that 2005 act...
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/fbi-efforts-to-eliminate-the-dna-backlog
Liberal and RINO hypocrisy about various public spaces after Trump, who is alive, is evident when the liberals running Richmond named an elementary school after Obama, who is alive. The same leftists who wanted statues of Confederate generals, Christopher Columbus, and the Founding Fathers taken down have no problem honoring thugs like George Floyd and even Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the USSR, with memorials and statues.
Metaphor alert!
Oh no, not the dreaded Black mold!
Perhaps resulting from an actual visit by Obama.
That’s nothing...just wait until we see what happens on all the Barack Obama Boulevards around the country.
I disagree, and have no affection for the Clintons or his term in office.
Democrats would never destroy a tool of corruption.
Must be proud of their loser daughter.
Mmmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm......
Barry and his team may need to go in and fumigate the place.
“”Barry and his team may need to go in and fumigate the place””
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It’s a shame that Barry never performed a frat dance routine. He and Zelensky would have made a great team... both on about the same character level. Three schmucks on a piano?
There is a joke in here......
I can understand a rodentโs confusion on that one. It looks like a big dumpster
The Obama, the savior, the light bringer, is just so amazing and dreamy he needed everything named after him so all could bask in his glory.
Good one.
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