Letter from Farmland ES principal today.
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Saturday, October 30, 2021
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
11-Year-Old Boy Dies After Collapsing in Montgomery County Classroom
A family is inconsolable after the loss of an 11-year-old boy who died after suffering a sudden medical emergency and collapsing in his Montgomery County classroom Monday.
The boy, William Edilzer Cabrera Lozano, was in the fifth grade. After he collapsed, he was transported to a medical center where he died, officials said.
“That’s my son William… I love him so much. I don’t know how to live without him,” his mother, Santos Mercedes Cabrera Lozano, said. “I’m alone, I’m a single mother.”
According to Cabrera Lozano, William took the bus to Farmland Elementary in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday morning like he did every day. But shortly after arriving to class, William felt sick...
Monday, October 25, 2021
MCPS 5th grader dies after falling ill at Farmland Elementary school
ROCKVILLE, Md. (7News) — A Farmland Elementary school fifth-grader died Monday after falling ill at school, Montgomery County Public Schools officials confirm.
The student reportedly got ill inside the classroom and the school nurse was called. The school nurse determined 911 needed to be called. The school was placed into "shelter in place" mode while first responders tried to help the child.
The child was taken to an area hospital where they were pronounced dead...
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Drinking water exceeds lead limits at 63 Montgomery Co. schools
From WTOP, reporter Megan Cloherty. Full story here.
WASHINGTON — Summer break is now in full swing for students in Montgomery County, but county drinking water testing reports show kids who attended more than 60 schools in the system could have been exposed to dangers levels of lead.
In updating the results of its ongoing Drinking Water Testing Program, Montgomery County schools say drinking outlets at 150 schools in its system have been tested for lead. Many have already been fixed.
While the county says on its website only 97 of the 9,748 outlets tested are accessible to students, a closer look at the individual school reports finds that a majority of the offending outlets are in elementary schools’ classrooms.
The Environmental Protection Agency sets a threshold of 20 parts per billion for the lead in drinking water before the fixture needs to be replaced. Nearby school systems like D.C. won’t let lead exceed 5 parts per billion.In Prince George’s County Schools, it’s 10 parts per billion, or ppb.
Of the 94 Montgomery County elementary schools tested, 46 have at least one drinking outlet that tested above the EPA threshold. Four others come within 1 part of the 20 ppb threshold. See the county’s testing reports by school here.
Some faucets and bubblers, or drinking fountains, tested at a few schools far exceeded 20 ppb, according to county data:
WASHINGTON — Summer break is now in full swing for students in Montgomery County, but county drinking water testing reports show kids who attended more than 60 schools in the system could have been exposed to dangers levels of lead.
In updating the results of its ongoing Drinking Water Testing Program, Montgomery County schools say drinking outlets at 150 schools in its system have been tested for lead. Many have already been fixed.
While the county says on its website only 97 of the 9,748 outlets tested are accessible to students, a closer look at the individual school reports finds that a majority of the offending outlets are in elementary schools’ classrooms.
The Environmental Protection Agency sets a threshold of 20 parts per billion for the lead in drinking water before the fixture needs to be replaced. Nearby school systems like D.C. won’t let lead exceed 5 parts per billion.In Prince George’s County Schools, it’s 10 parts per billion, or ppb.
Of the 94 Montgomery County elementary schools tested, 46 have at least one drinking outlet that tested above the EPA threshold. Four others come within 1 part of the 20 ppb threshold. See the county’s testing reports by school here.
Some faucets and bubblers, or drinking fountains, tested at a few schools far exceeded 20 ppb, according to county data:
- A classroom bubbler at Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, tested 356ppb.
- A faucet in an ESOL classroom in Farmland Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland, tested at 564 ppb.
- A faucet in computer lab inside Fields Road Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, tested at 259 ppb.
- A bubbler in Gaithersburg Elementary tested at 253 ppb.
- A faucet tested at 310 ppb in a Maryvale Elementary School classroom in Rockville, Maryland.
- A classroom faucet at South Lake Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, tested at 431 ppb.
- At Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, a classroom faucet tested 115 ppb.
- In Kensington, Maryland, a kitchen faucet at Einstein High School tested at 700 ppb.
- At Wooton High School in Rockville, Maryland, a faucet inside a computer lab room tested at 112 ppb.
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