Area schools have done a good job letting residents know the results of state-mandated lead testing of water in school buildings.

School administrators have sent letters home to parents, discussed the results at board meetings and put results on their websites. They obviously aren’t trying to hide water sources that violate the state’s standards for clean drinking water.

Schools could go one step further, however, to assuage parents concerned about lead in water by having a document available that shows the results of testing on all water sources — even those that don’t violate the state’s standards. At a time when schools are begging for parent involvement in their child’s education, it is hard to believe that it is difficult for parents who want to see such detailed results to get them. Again, not evey parent will want such a list. But some parents do, and they deserve to have that information at their fingertips and not hidden in an obscure link on a school website where it is next to impossible for a parent to find. It should be easily found and named.

Not only are those likely to be interested in such information the taxpayers footing the bill for the school, they are parents who deserve to know if there are water sources that are even close to violating state standards.