Friday was the first day back to school for students at Lakewood Elementary School after the school was evacuated on Tuesday for high levels of carbon monoxide.
Andre Riley, spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District, said a staff member went from room to room Friday, asking students of they felt OK. Thirty students said they did not and went to be checked out by the nurse, and eight students ended up being sent home.
The district's director of health services was also at Lakewood.
The parent of one told NBC 5 she is very frustrated, while others said they are glad next week is spring break, after everything that has happened.
“It is nice to have week off and kind of relax a little bit, but obviously there will be some concern coming back when we start a week from Monday,” said parent Jeremy Clark.
Also Friday, a company donated 70 carbon monoxide detectors to Friends of Lakewood. Parents carried them into school and said they have started placing them in the classrooms.
“We have a resilient school here at Lakewood and we are going to move forward. This has been a challenging week but we are going to work together and get back on track,” said Riley.
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Lakewood Parents Urge Trustees to Make Repairs at School
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 About 50 parents of students at Dallas' Lakewood Elementary School attended Thursday’s Dallas Independent School Board meeting, urging trustees to make much-needed repairs to the school.
“We are well aware that this week’s carbon monoxide problem was not just a fluke, but an example of any number of safety issues that are bound to occur at Lakewood,” parent Dorcy Clark told board members.
Lakewood is one of nine schools that would receive a total of $137 million for immediate repairs.
"The building is not keeping our children safe,” said Lakewood PTA President Shannon West. "We need money, we need renovation, we need the addition."
Lakewood would get $12.6 million under the plan and parents have raised another $500,000.
"We have already made moves to make this happen in our community," said West. "We’ve taken it upon ourselves to try to get this building safe."
"We know that Lakewood is terribly overcrowded,” said DISD’s Mike Koprowski. ”That’s an immediate need, so this money is largely dedicated toward addressing those overcrowding needs.”
Board members vote on the plan March 26.
NBC 5's Julie Fine contributed to this report.
