CHICAGO – Administrators at a Chicago school are seemingly unable to rid their elementary school of an infestation of cockroaches and rodents and instead are working around them.

The roaches and rodents shut down the lunchroom and kitchen at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy in early March.

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The school has ended serving hot lunches and has resorted to offering cold lunches for students to eat at their classroom desks.

A leader of the teachers’ union who works there says mice and roaches are in the hallways, cafeteria, kitchen and under floor boards which are “rotted,” according to WGN.

“Mice and more, bugs galore,” is how the reporter described the situation, adding the cafeteria has been deemed “unsafe.”

“Yes, there are roaches in the cafeteria. The kitchen has been kept clean. Unfortunately the condition of the floor has turned it into a nest for roaches,” principal Isamar Vargas Colon admits to ABC 7.

“They’re on the counters, they’re on the pots, they’re on the pans, all over the cafeteria,” she says.

The school will be trucking in lunches later this week.

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“They will be the equivalent of TV dinners,” WGN reports.

Sarah Chambers, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union executive committee, accused the administration of being indifferent to the problem.

“If it was a school with white kids, this would have been fixed immediately,” she charges.

“If someone on a North Side school would have said this problem, it would have been fixed immediately,” she adds. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the union’s chief foe, lives on the North Side.

Administrators attempted to fumigate the school during spring break, but it apparently didn’t take.

They plan to completely replace the rotted floor during summer break, so for now, the children will have to live with the roaches and rodents.