"Toxic carpet fumes"

lmao.
"A class of students die in hurrific accident" - The sun
"omg" says everyone,"what could it be"
"After teachers failed to open windows, students were hurrificaly suffoocated
by toxic carpets which swamped them to death"

Well pitty they couldn't move you all to another room just for that day, because i been in freezing class rooms before and it's impossible to concentrate during the lesson.

Ok, it's a bit of an odd problem, but we walked into German today, and instantly we were met by this icy draught. We noticed that every window was open in the room; despite the fact that the temperature was so cold. We asked our teacher why she had them open, and she asked us if we remembered when the new carpet in the room was laid down, and the smell which lingered for weeks afterwards.

Anyway, to cut a long story short; apparently the carpet has been causing potentially toxic fumes to be in the room, and some of the languages teachers have been feeling ill as a result, and experiencing "swollen eyes" and other medical complaints. Everyone was kind of worried, because it sounded pretty serious, and lots of us haven't been feeling so well recently..

I'm not sure why the school hasn't done anything, but is the glue which carpets are stuck down with really that much of a health risk? Some articles on Google claim that they contain carcinogens.. I really hope not.

It was rather. Plus every time someone else came into the room, they said: "Why is it so cold?" and we had to go through it all again.

actually thats well spooky, they had the same at my uni

loads of students got poorly and sent home cos they inhaled the wrong sort of rug

I wouldn't find that very funny

no carl, the fact is it's ridiculos, people don't die from carpets.

yes they can

We're only in there for 1 hour at a time, 5 times a fortnight; but it's still a tad worrying. Especially considering the teachers who spend time in there have said they've started to notice that things are actually wrong medically. I personally would be happier to just find another room..

who's ever died from a carpet?

Why are you posting as anonymous? Is this really an embarrassing or intimate topic? Lol.

Well pitty they couldn't move you all to another room just for that day, because i been in freezing class rooms before and it's impossible to concentrate during the lesson.