This from today’s Knoxnews website, in astory written by Ericka Mellon, mold has been located at Carter Elementary School. Carter Elementary School was on the Capital improvement Plan for a new school in the past two years. The current school board in its infinite wisdom pulled the project. It is now moldy, get ready for another community school project to get pulled.

Here’s the word from the company conducting the tests. “It is not possible to determine ‘safer’ or ‘unsafe’ levels of exposure for people in general,” the report says in part. “It is not the intent of this report to make any suggestions or associations concerning potential health effects or risks to building occupants.”

According to Mactec’s report, it is difficult to determine whether the mold levels would cause students and others to get sick.

The story went on to say, In February, Mactec found “small amounts” of mold at West Valley Middle School. If in fact it was “small amounts”, it sickened some students very badly and had it not been for a concerned mother exposing it to WATE TV 6, WVMS would still be moldy and sick kids would be everywhere.

Does this sound like good news? I don’t think so, however Russ Oaks PR flak for the schools said, “All in all this is a very positive report,”

Positive for who? Reporter Mellon should have asked Oaks how this report “is a very positive report?”