Bug problem

This week, I went to CNN and looked around for awhile. Most of the stories were discussing the wedding! I figured someone would have already wrote about it so I continued to look for a different topic. There were several stories that seemed interesting to read about. One being a story coming from Florida. There have been several schools that have been infested with roaches. This title of course caught my eye right away! Students at Rock Springs Elementary School are no longer allowed in their cafeteria after the infestation of roaches forced the cafeteria to close down. The school officials said that the cafeteria will not be able to be opened back up until Monday at the earliest. Rock Springs is not the only school being affected by this! At least twenty one more schools in Florida are dealing with this bug issue.

This is not only disgusting but to add on to this, Rock Springs School just passed a health inspection! After all of this though, they decided to "take another look." Well what a brilliant idea! Local 6 is the one that prompted this idea. Local 6 Reporter, Mike Holfield, met with the School district's chief operating officer, Mike Eugene, wednesday night to discuss the bug problem. He stated that the district had launched a school-by-school inspection. Out of the 188 schools that were inspected, twenty two of them were found to be infested with an "unacceptable" amount of roaches.

Thursday night Holfield was on Local 6 at 11. He was going to be at one of the schools discussing the roach issue. Along with that he was going to put out a list of all the schools that have been effected by the roaches. This interview also had an exclusive video of one of the infestation at the school. There was a phone message sent out to all of the parents of the students attending Rock Springs Elementary.

It stated: "I'm calling to let you know that OCPS maintenance inspectors were at our school yesterday and found evidence of bugs in our cafeteria and our kitchen. We wanted to take care of the problem right away, so we changed our food service routine today. Maintenance staff is aggressively stepping up their pest-control management, and our custodians and food service staff are thoroughly cleaning and sanitizing all surfaces, floors and equipment. Until we are sure that the bugs are under control, we will continue to serve meals under our temporary set-up and keep students away from the affected areas,"

That message was pretty well put. But can you imagine how many angry parents there are going to be? I mean, no none of this was planned but to just say oh hey we have some bugs let's close down the cafeteria? I just feel like there could have been something done before it got to this point, no? I wouldn't be one of the parents to complain but I definitely would raise my concern a little as to where my child is going to school. Although, I am glad to see something is being done about this issue. I hope they don't stop the school-by-school
Inspections! After as bad as it has gotten for these twenty two schools, I hope they continue to inspect until all schools have had an inspection. :)