Mother claims AC issue at Central high school caused daughter’s collapse
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Scorching heat outside and the claim of inadequate air conditioning inside a high school is what one mother says sent her daughter to the hospital Friday morning.
The woman’s daughter, a sophomore at Central high school, was transported from the school to LeBonheur Children’s Hospital. The mother shared how she was notified there was an issue: “I got a call stating that my daughter had passed out at the school, and when I get there, she was laying on the cafeteria floor, like kind of unresponsive. They (paramedics) was bringing her back through…They brought her through. They put her on a stretcher and carried her to the hospital.”
She met with FOX13 as her daughter was discharged from Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Friday morning. ”The doctor say it was kind of from like a heat exhaustion,” she said, sharing her daughter’s diagnosis.
FOX13 also spoke with the grandmother of another student at Central High. Dawnita Adams-Osuji said she is very concerned about the temperature inside Central High School. “It’s too hot outside, and then for it to be that hot as well inside, it’s a scary situation for any child. I wouldn’t want to wish it on anyone. It’s entirely too many kids in there for them to not have any air.“ Adams-Osuji said.
In a Friday afternoon news conference, MSCS’s facilities officer, Michelle Stuart, said her team investigated temperature concerns inside Central Friday morning and found no issues with the air conditioning. “We went and checked the temperatures in those buildings, in those rooms, they were all in different locations. They weren’t even together. 75 to 76 degrees in all of them. So there was not a true HVAC issue there today (Friday),” Stuart said.
She went on to add the district has not had any big HVAC issues at any of their facilities so far in their first two weeks of school. The interim superintendent, Dr. Roderick Richmond, said any parent not satisfied with answers they get from a school principal can take that issue to their regional superintendent. If they’re still not satisfied at that point, they can then bring that issue to his office.
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