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by Peter Downs Posted January 13, 2005 The recent rains have some St. Louis Public School teachers singing "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head," but unlike the songwriter, they are complaining. That's because they are getting rained on inside their classrooms.
Jodi Cooley brought the case of the leaky roofs to the attention of the school board on Tuesday night, January 11. Cooley teaches Read 180 at Woerner Elementary School. Her classroom was painted the day before school started in September, but already the paint is blistering off the walls (see attached photos). Rain water has destroyed ceiling tiles in the room and leaked into light fixtures. She told the school board that there are days when the room is so flooded, she cannot hold classes.
Cooley said she arrived at Woerner five years ago, and the roof has leaked as long as she has been there. The water damage is not confined to her classroom, room 211, either. Water from the roof has flowed past her room down to the nurse's room on the first floor and to the special education classroom in the basement, she said.
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