KONA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Teachers at a Hawaii Island school with nearly 1,000 students are speaking out about leaking pipes.

They said the problems at Kealakehe Elementary School need a permanent solution.

Video shows water from a leaky bathroom pipe dripping into a third-grade classroom at the elementary school earlier this week.

Special Education teacher Rabayah Akhter recorded the video.

“A couple of the students started freaking out that they were getting, like, splashed on,” she said. “Kids were complaining that it smelled bad, that it was making them nauseous.”

The Hawaii State Teachers Association brought a group of educators together with horror stories of similar leaks.

“I actually broke down that day because I was so upset and I started crying,” said resource teacher Joy Hana

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