Boyle Heights parents want answers about schools reopening in the Lineage stench zone
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Set us as preferred With two weeks before school starts, families in Boyle Heights are gripped with concern about the conditions and safety at eight campuses within a one-mile radius of the Lineage warehouse fire, schools located in and near neighborhoods beset with the stench of rotting food, fly swarms and rats.Parent Myrna Silva, who lives a block away from the Lineage site, is among the scores of parents worried about how their children — who attend three early education and care centers, four elementary schools and a middle school near the burned hulk of the warehouse — will cope with the odor and vermin infestations that have kept them indoors since the June 17 fire erupted and upended their lives.Her main concern is about the noxious stench of rotting food.Will that prevent her children from concentrating on schoolwork or having a full school experience that includes outdoor recreation? California Residents describe the conditions they’ve been living in nearly a month after a fire damaged a cold storage food warehouse in Boyle Heights.“It is a priority that my kids be able to play outside at school,” she said.
“It is what they are used to and they need to de-stress.This is not healthy for their mental health.”There are no plans to delay the Aug.
12 opening of nearby campuses, transfer students to other schools or switch to online learning.All schools will open as normal — although operations will be tightly monitored and affected campuses are being scrubbed clean inside and out.
When the blaze erupted during summer school session, L.A.Unified moved students to other locations.
But the change drove down attendance at summer school, which is optional for students.Officials with Los Angeles Unified, which is conducting a series of online meetings for parents, say that schools in the area are clean and safe, that the indoor air quality will meet high standards and students will be kept ins...