PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — It was the first day back for in-person classes on Monday at Mastery Gratz Prep Middle School in Philadelphia after asbestos was discovered last week.
The middle school was cleared to reopen but parents say they’re still worried.
“Thankfully there is testing, but the after-effects? How many people are going to know it was affiliated with asbestos?” asked Danielle Mitchell of Tioga-Nicetown.
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Meanwhile, we learned Monday that Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter, which shares the campus in the city’s Tioga-Nicetown section, will remained closed for at least one more day until inspections are complete.
Gratz is the second district building to close in less than a month because of asbestos.
The other, Building 21 in West Oak Lane, is still closed as well.
Now city leaders say they’ll withhold funding from the district until they get a detailed plan for rectifying the issue of unsafe …