LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – FOX5 continues to look into your complaints about your child’s hot or warm classrooms, and AC problems throughout numerous Clark County schools.
One mom says, even in the winter at Tanaka Elementary, it has still been warm in her 11-year-old daughter’s classroom — and it’s affecting her health at school.
“She was born with what’s called Von Willebrand. It’s a blood clotting disorder where her blood does not clot. She come home numerous times from school, saying she’s had nosebleeds. It’s been uncontrollable,” said mother Jamilah Hampton.
“She’s begging not to go to school, for me to pick her up early — and she’s a straight A student,” Hampton said.
Hampton said her daughter has resumed medication to make sure her daughter’s blood can clot.
Hampton said other parents have discussed similar complaints about warm classrooms, and she has brought the issue to staff and the principal’s attention. Staff told her that maintenance crews are often brought in to address the issue.
CCSD released the following statement, telling FOX5 that they believe that staff has found a solution:
As temperatures dropped through the fall, CCSD’s Maintenance Department worked with Tanaka Elementary School staff to adjust the HVAC system to provide consistent temperatures throughout the school. Staff notified crews of fluctuations in different parts of the building as adjustments were implemented.
Hampton said that she plans to ask her daughter’s teacher if she can bring a portable fan for her desk, all to make sure that her daughter stays cool and healthy in class.
Back in September, a member of the CCSD Bond Oversight Committee said that 91 schools could have AC problems.
In late November, the same committee asked CCSD staff to compile a list of the schools with the most pressing AC problems. Staff compiled a list of more than 360 schools and facilities with a ranking: whether it would be more costly to repair AC systems or simply replace them.
The Southern Nevada Health District told FOX5, classrooms must be a maximum of 85 degrees. FOX5 reported 81 complaints to SNHD by early September.
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