Posted on 08/24/2026 7:46:37 PM PDT by george76
RICHMOND, Va. — 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. We’ll 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
Read something quite a while back about Hillary somehow appropriating the long-form birth certificate of it and some of its operatives told her forthrightly that if was put out for all to see, they’d disappear Chelsea like the Clintons have Arkansided folks.
And she backed off.
So I dunno
A school with a nice facade, but rotten inside. Just like it’s namesake.
Nah. She would gladly sacrifice her daughter if she could be president.
LOLLLLLL!
Good one, broken_clock!
Haha, thanks! Do you recall the Hildabest barking like a dog? It was surreal.
Yes, she’s a dogwoman who threw her victory cake against the wall when she lost to Trump. After that, she fell down the stairs in a drunken stupor!
Would have loved to be a fly in that room :-)
Maybe Florida could ship them a few extra pythons?
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