Using trailers for classrooms, or educational cottages as one superintendent calls them, has become an economical solution for many school systems to overcrowding and budget cuts.
If you go to school one morning and find that your classroom will be housed in a trailer, here are 3 reasons to take an air purifier with you.
Airborne Chemicals-When new, the seals that hold in the materials that off gas formaldehyde and other chemicals are tight and do a better job of preventing the chemicals from evaporating and escaping into the air.
If a trailer is transported to a site, put on an uneven surface, and as it ages and begins to settle (as everything does), seals begin to break allowing materials such as adhesives and other synthetic materials to emit volatile organic chemicals into the air. This can cause burning eyes, headaches, nausea, and dizziness.
Many trailers are used for years while waiting for money to be allocated for building additions or new buildings. Constantly filtering the air decreases the number of airborne chemicals that you are forced to breathe.
Poor Ventilation-Many times the ability to exchange stale air for fresh air can only be accomplished by opening the door on each side. But weather dictates when this is possible.
And if you, or some in your class, suffer from allergies, opening the doors is probably the last thing you want to do during allergy season which in many locales can last from late January to the first frost.
The inability to change the air means pollutants have not way out. Dust, pollen, pet dander brought in on clothing and book bags from various homes, and germs that are sent airborne with sneezing and coughing are sent around and around for everyone to breathe.
This is unhealthy at best and can cause flare ups for those with asthma and allergy, and increase absences of both students and teachers because of illness.
You Stay in Control-When you work for a school system, you generally have very little control over where your classroom will be. And being moved to a trailer can feel like the ultimate in loss of control.
Choosing to use a portable high efficiency particle arresting (or HEPA) air purifier with an inner filter that is designed to eliminate airborne chemicals lets you stay in control of one of the most important things in life-the air you breathe.
And regardless of where your classroom moves next, you'll always know that clean air is as close as the nearest outlet.
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