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Speaker 1: Andrew Levitton is the principal at Allington and also the

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Speaker 1: head of the Mid Canterbury Principles Association. Good to have

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Speaker 1: you back mate, morning morning, Luke.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good? So I understand that some of this was

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Speaker 1: being used in your school, that's right.

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Speaker 2: And it's as you said, it certainly called up on

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Speaker 2: the hop a little bit because you purchase products online

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Speaker 2: or through restore and good faith and then you find

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Speaker 2: out some time later that it potentially has a spest

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Speaker 2: off of it. So we've had to act accordingly in

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Speaker 2: that regard.

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Speaker 1: Out of all the things you've got to worry about,

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Speaker 1: the term four, I can't imagine this would have been

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Speaker 1: on the BINGO card. So you see a classroom and

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Speaker 1: has that been tested. There's a lot of resource that's

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Speaker 1: now been poured into this. Is it an abundance of

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Speaker 1: safety or is there a legitimate risk here?

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Speaker 2: I guess the products that have been listed have got

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Speaker 2: the potential to have a spest off on of them.

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Speaker 2: So I guess if we, like in one of our classes,

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Speaker 2: we had one of those batch numbers. So and this

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Speaker 2: will be the same for other schools where where it's

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Speaker 2: a concerned for them as well, that classroom every you know,

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Speaker 2: the students, the teacher out of the classroom into a

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Speaker 2: different space doing their learning. And that's that's the case

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Speaker 2: with us until we get some testing back. But also

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Speaker 2: any like for us, any classrooms that are adjacent maybe

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Speaker 2: through a sliding door that sort of thing, or in

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Speaker 2: a more open space then though where we're taking precautions

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Speaker 2: that are removing those putting them into separate places of

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Speaker 2: separate space throughout the school as well. I think there's

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Speaker 2: only about maybe about five schools in mid Chanterbury where

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Speaker 2: classes have had to be relocated or if they've shut down,

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Speaker 2: you know, withdraw spaces that certain students might use from

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Speaker 2: time to time as well.

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Speaker 1: When do you hope to get your test back.

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Speaker 2: It depends on the supplier. Some can turn it around

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Speaker 2: a day, others it's taken two three days. So it's

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Speaker 2: just a manner of waiting, waiting to hear what might

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Speaker 2: be happening. But I guess because it's it's something that's

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Speaker 2: affecting schools, there's probably a more a bigger demand on testers,

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Speaker 2: and you know, in the next step if there is

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Speaker 2: a if the sample does come back is positively containing

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Speaker 2: a spestos. Then the next step is for schools to

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Speaker 2: you remove the sample, but also then you've got to start,

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Speaker 2: depending on the level of a spectos being, starting to

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Speaker 2: clean deep clean as well. It's not just a matter

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Speaker 2: of putting the back and cleaner through that you use

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Speaker 2: it every day after school.

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Speaker 1: No, Yeah, what's been your reassurance to parents? And from

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Speaker 1: what you've heard, I mean, is is it as bad

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Speaker 1: as what some of the headlines are making it sound.

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Speaker 2: Well, so, we no known mecanbrary schools have had to close,

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Speaker 2: and that's probably because if if there's the schools have

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Speaker 2: got other places, other spaces within the school that they

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Speaker 2: can put those classrooms, then can they can stay open.

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Speaker 2: But if schools haven't got any spare spaces then and

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Speaker 2: they're treating a classroom is having an identified product or

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Speaker 2: an unidentified batch of a specials where they don't know

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Speaker 2: what the origin is, then that that's one thing that

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Speaker 2: that the schools are going to have to have to

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Speaker 2: grapple with. But it's in terms of in our area,

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Speaker 2: it's probably only affected about a quarter of our schools.

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Speaker 2: Other schools will have they'll have the kinetic see that

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Speaker 2: the students have been using but it might be not

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Speaker 2: not one of the products that's been identified, or if

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Speaker 2: it is, if it is a product that they're not

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Speaker 2: sure about, but it's in a contained space, as you

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Speaker 2: said earlier on, they'll just take that that product to

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Speaker 2: the Resource Recovery Park downtown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't envy what you've been putting up with. You know,

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Speaker 1: if I was a really crafty cat as you were

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Speaker 1: making this call, mister Leverton, I would have gone and

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Speaker 1: just accidentally dropped my textbooks in that classroom and then

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Speaker 1: hate lucas time for the mass test. Oh I was sorry, MS.

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Speaker 1: My books in the next class there. It's all called off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one way around it, get through the codes

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Speaker 2: and all that in the class Well, good on them,

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Speaker 2: but nice are all for our for our school, all

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Speaker 2: the kids books, everything is just how they left it

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Speaker 2: last week, at the end of last week.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there might be sometimes there is a silver lining.