A school employee in Washington, D.C., says a rat ran under her office door just days after she started work at Columbia Heights Educational Campus, and the experience was so disturbing that she does not plan to return to the building this fall.
Her account is raising concerns about unresolved rodent problems, sanitation, and building conditions at the Northwest D.C. campus.
What happened?
Kiesha Lewis said she eventually started working from the front of the cafeteria because it was the only area on campus where she did not encounter animals or droppings.
Lewis, a middle school community development coordinator at Columbia Heights Educational Campus in Northwest D.C., told WTOP that a rat ran under her office door and into a wall during her first week at the school…