School employee tells students to bring disinfectants to fight rats

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A letter sent to students' homes from a Brownsville elementary school advised parents to equip their children with disinfectants to combat the rat droppings and urine found on school desks. District officials would not identify the employee, who warned parents of rat problems at El Jardin Elementary.

But while officials admitted the school has a recurring rat problem, they said students do not need to bring disinfectants to campus. Maintenance workers are handling the matter with mouse traps and glue boards, they said.

"I want to reassure all the parents that we have a very clean school even if we do have a problem with rats," said Principal Hector Hernandez, noting that the employee sent the letter without school permission. Maintenance workers "are going to use all resources available to clear this up while the kids are away."

"My kids have never complained about rats," said Matamoros, the school's Parent Teacher Organization president. "I think there are rats everywhere so it doesn't worry me that much"

That is a public health problem in a big way. Has this school district not heard of the bubonic plague??? E. coli??? other various and sundry bacteria and virii???

because it's transmitted by breathing it in..The early symptoms mimic many insignificant childhood sniffles- illnesses, and by the time the parents realize it's NOT the sniffles, it could be too late :(

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Let's see....notebook paper, No. 2 pencils, crayons, RAT DISINFECTANT!

Geez...and to think MY big worry has been my kids drinking out of the school water fountain during flu season.

the disconnected the fountains because the water was contaminated with fecal matter.