Residential Schools For The Blind

It was a residential school. They found asbestos in the dorms, so we had to stay in a different building til they cleaned it all out. When I returned to my dorm room, I found this white powder on my belongings...like my little cart I had stuff in. Do you think it was asbestos that I touched??
it was white gritty, powdery stuff.

I doubt it; probably sawdust, sanding dust, or even regular ole dust. The folks who remove asbestos are required by the EPA to remove the dust along with the asbestos. Touching asbestos won't hurt you; only inhaling it.

2006-09-18 21:22:13 by Mel

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School bus driver parks her school bus in front of her house on the street , which is across from my house. It creates a blind spot and is hazard because it is parked on a curve which creates a blind spot for drivers. Bus driver starts it up every morning and sits there for 15 minutes while she tests out all the bells and whistles on it. Is this legal and should I complain to the proper authorities. Don't they have school bus parking lots? It's a visual disturbance, noise disturbance, and hazardous.

I drive a school bus. The village council told me that I could park it on a village lot across from my house and they will plow the property for me in the winter. The even offered to dig a trench from my house to the bus so that I can run a block heater cord.

I bring the bus home at night because the bus depot is 60 miles from where I live and where my route is.

Your driver, by law, has to check all functions of the bus every day before going on the road. Most buses are diesel powered and require warming up before starting off. Mine has a Webasto heater which cuts down warm up time.

You might talk to the bus driver and mention your concerns. She may be able to find another place to park her vehicle. If she can't you will just have to get used to to it. Your bus driver is providing a valuable service to her community. I am sure that it is not her intention to cause you grief. Kindly respond with a little latitude towards her.

2008-09-24 17:37:55 by Joanna

If a fuel truck CLEARLY 'UNPURGED' and maybe carrying it's full load or worse still- thousands of litres of flammable gas (potential bomb)- is parked in a residential area where school children are walking past on their way home from school etc- does this constitute a breaking of the 'CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS ACT' and why?
Also does the person come under the British laws for his irresponsible actions?
Can this person be actually prosecuted?
Why would the authorities turn a blind eye to such goings on if it is clearly dangerous to do this and breaks the ADR regulations?

One of my neighbours takes it upon himself to disregard the rules and brings the truck home with him at any opportunity he feels necessary ( i.e. he forgot his phone or his sandwiches etc).
He doesn't even park it near his own family but on a pedestrian walkway outside an elderly couples house who wouldn't be able to run should it become necessary.

Please give me accurate and legal information in your answers as I intend to take this matter further.

THANKYOU!
If any of you know the law - you'll appreciate the fact that 'ORANGE PLATES' are not meant to be displayed once a container has been purged - so that any emergency services are not confused at any situation that may arise - and also so that the container does not take pressidence over something else that is TRULY dangerous- THE RULES and laws are there for a reason.
I have no sympathy for this person as he has been warned and still continues to abuse the law!

This is a massive subject and it is possible that the orange boards have just been left in place when no dangerous load is on board.

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2009-04-29 09:09:57 by THE Voice of REASON!

I'm hoping this is posted in the rigth category, b/c when I post things like this is marraige and divorce, I end up getting trashed. I am a stepmom of a 12 y/o 5th grader (his dad and I have been together for 4 yrs., bio-mom and ny hub have very trenuious relationship- cannot talk to each other). My hub had custody of him from 9 months to age 8, when the child was sexually abused by mom's older son (my stepson's half brother- stepson was 6, brother was 14). brother was put away in juvenile dentention, and somehow theh courts thought when they asked the chhild where he wanted to live, he said mom, so custody was changed. Mom made it impossible for my hub to remain involved in school, medical, etc. so we write directly to the sources.

Recently (we live 5 houses away from the ex and son), the older brother was arrested while in his residential half way house porgram (we only found out b/c the teacher told us half brother brought him to school). He was bailed out by mom in mid Dec, and his trial has been postponed twice.

Since borther moved in (and some of this has been beforehand), the 12 y/o stepson has been sinking fast....he lies to me and hubby, the teacher (we email each other one to twice a wk), hasn't been doing hmwk (all midterms say he lacks personal resonsibility), his medical problmes are thru the roof (he's 100+ lbs overweight w/ hi cholestrol, being seen by specialtist, but mom and kid don't do what's told).

Over the weekend, my hub and I have begun to see how far behind the kid is- (he was made to repeat kindergarten becuase mom wouldn't take him on her visitation days 2 weekdays a week, so he technically went parttime) he can't write cursive, doesn't know his math facts (multipllication division, etc), doesn't know personal info like either mom or dad's address (In case of emergency), his birthday, can't recite days of the week on order and months in order, etc. I can't figure out how school continues to pass him to the next grade if he has this much trouble. Last week, my hub got an email from the teacher and had to go to school monday b/c first he teased a female classmate to tears that she had breast cancer and was going to die, then an hour later the teacher intercepted a story he wrote of "sexual and inappropriate content." My husband and I have questoinsed the courts how can the abusive borther live in the same house as the victim, and school on how they are so blind as to the issues (Maryland apparently has a no child left behind theory, but how is he supposed to make it)...in other things, he's taken pocket knives to school, and when a letter came home last week about some chhild suicides going on in our area, he joked at lunch to classmates he was going to kill hiimself-- launching a intervention of calling both parents, adn pulling hiim fromm class.

We don't have money to go to court and request a change of custody, and at this point the child resents both of us becasue we have rules (no computer until grades come up, clean your room, eat what we give you, no snacking,etc) and we make to much for legal aid to help. I'm going to write a letter to the teacher and superintendent voicing my concerns, but I'm looking to see if anyone can name other "common sense things" that should be known at this point of a 12 y/o.

Thanks to all- I apprecate your help

Wow you are in a pickle! Yes, your son should know things like his birthday, parents addresses, also work phone numbers, emergency contact, basic health information (what he is allergic too), but I think he has a lot more problems than just not understanding "common sense".

He needs counseling. There should be local (free) programs to help your son. There are cases where children who were abused turn into abusers, and him living with his abusers cannot be healthy.

You and your husband need to do everything you can to get him far away from the dysfunction and into a healthy and stable environment.

My sympathies are with you. Please stay strong and keep fighting for your son.

2009-03-20 06:34:44 by Brandee

For example, a classmate who spits almost constantly or one that has extremely aggressive behaviors. These students live in a residential facility but attend public school. They must endure these behaviors on the public school bus ride to and from home also. The child who spits cannot be moved away from the other students ( no place to move him to and not enough staff to student coverage) and hygiene is a huge issue. These is no safe location to remove the aggressive students. Staff are subjected to the same treatment (being spit upon and physically attacked). There are medically fragile students placed in this classroom with feeding tubes, oxygen, chronic MRSA, etc... Behavior programs ( intense reinforcement of appropriate behavior, picture prompts, behavior modification, plus other techniques/plans) have had no effect on reducing these nasty behaviors. There is an educational planning team but most members turn a blind eye to what is going on! What about OSHA regulations? Does the school district have an obligation to provide protection for the other students in this classroom? Does anyone have any ideas or resources?

Hi grandmac; I think the pendulum has swung from one side to the other. A decade or two ago, children such as you describe were kept separate from other children for various reasons. Parents with children with various disabilities desperately wanted their children to feel included. Unfortunately, this hasn't worked out the way most parents had hoped. No one wants to go back to institutionalizing children with severe learning disabilities, but I do believe that separate buses and classrooms might make everyone's experience less stressful. I'm not a parent, but I have a friend back home in Ontario who struggles with this issue because her son is severely delayed due to an automobile accident. I wish I had some answers to give you. God Bless You.

2008-09-24 18:54:34 by grandmacobby