[Vision2020] What Your School Administration Doesn't Want You toKnow

[Debbie Gray]

The ridiculous scare tactics regarding farm chemical exposure are
incredible!

If you hadn't noticed, we live in a farming area. Many of the children
grow up ON those farms and work on these farms. The location of the high
school 6 blocks or so east of the junior high isn't going to cause a
statistically significant jump in cancer and neo-natal deformities. If you
are worried about that, we had best close down Mountain View park and
cancel soccer because they're right next to those toxic waste dumps known
as wheat fields!!! Maybe we should make this a closed city and not allow
children out of the developed bits where the air is sooo much cleaner. And
guess what? You know the lawn chemicals many people use on their lush
lawns? They don't stay there. It's called runoff.  There goes the students
stepping on any city parks or school grounds.  Maybe we should install
astroturf instead? Do you think there is a pesticide proof bubble around
Moscow City limits?

I'm interested in hearing the legitimate concerns of those opposing the
school bond but fearmongering about cancer and armed guards is pure
insanity. I feel like I've stepped onto a Fox News Broadcast.

And I have another question... why are some opposed to the Trail family
perhaps benefiting from future land development courtesy of tax supported
infrastructure but totally support all the business owners and surrounding
homeowners that benefit from the schools being so close? It's not just the
Trail family that would benefit from having improved quality in schools
(that's right SCHOOLS because they could have improved other schools, not
just built a new one).



On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Donovan Arnold wrote:

> Melynda,
>
> Are you saying that chlorophenoxy herbicides is not aerial sprayed on the
> hundreds of acres surrounding the proposed Trail site? Because I think that
> information is correct.
>
> "Can Prall, Radavich, and Willard really intend to assert that the Board of
> Trustees and the District would knowingly expose children to teratogenic
> chemicals for the sake of a new high school?"
>
> NO, I do not think you can jump to that conclusion that they feel the
> members of the Board of Trustees and District would KNOWINGLY do that.
> However, they could be doing it UNKNOWINGLY since they did not have enough
> time to check the site out thoroughly because that site was not decided on
> until after March 10th, 2005. They might not also have consider the dangers
> of the chlorophenoxy herbicides that serious of an issue. The chances of
> getting hit by a car crossing Third St. might be considered a greater threat
> to high school students. But none the less people should know what kind of
> chemicals are being sprayed around the area of the school site, even if it
> is a harmless chemical.
>
> Your leaps of reason and  assumptions always seem to assume the very worst
> in people. Using your reasoning if someone saw a child with his shoe untied
> and said to him he should tie it so he does not fall down, you would accuse
> that person of assuming that the mother of the child and school district
> intended to bash the child's teeth out on the sidewalk on his way home from
> school.  Then you would go off on how inconsiderate it was to think that way
> about his mother and the school district.
>
> It could just be that the school district missed something that could hurt
> the student. They are not perfect, they are people too.
>
> Pointing out that the school would be built on farmland and that farmland is
> sprayed with chemicals is something that the school district should
> consider. I think that is a reasonable point to bring up.
>
> Take Care,
>
> Donovan J Arnold
>
> >From: Melynda Huskey <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
> >Reply-To: Melynda Huskey <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
> >To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: [Vision2020] What Your School Administration Doesn't Want You
> >toKnow
> >Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >In perusing the "What Your School Administration Doesn't Want You to Know"
> >document, I think the piece I found most offensive and troubling was this
> >excerpt:
> >
> >"Chemical contamination is an issue at the proposed trail school site.  An
> >infant born in a wheat growing rural community in the US has twice the
> >chance of suffering birth defects as one born in a rural place that
> >doesnÂ’t produce wheat, an effect researchers blame on chlorophenoxy
> >herbicides.  Aerial spraying with its frequent overdrift contamination is
> >used for the fields adjoining the proposed 40 acre site for the high
> >school.  Will you worry about your exposure when you want a family?"
> >
> >Can Prall, Radavich, and Willard really intend to assert that the Board of
> >Trustees and the District would knowingly expose children to teratogenic
> >chemicals for the sake of a new high school?  How irresponsible.  How ugly.
> >
> >Ms. Radavich now asks that we summon our "compassion" to come together as a
> >community to solve the question of how to meet the educational needs of our
> >children.  Would she characterize the flier as a "compassionate" document?
> >Is it "compassionate" to engender profound mistrust, fear, and anger in
> >young people in an attempt to influence the outcome of an election?
> >
> >Right now, I myself would not be willing to engage in any discussion with
> >the authors of this document; it's simply too repugnant.  I can't imagine
> >how the trustees and school district employees must be feeling, after so
> >many weeks of outrageous accusations and public incivility.  I think we'll
> >find it very difficult to recover civil and productive community discourse.
> >  How disheartening--much more so than the outcome of a particular bond.
> >
> >Melynda Huskey
> >
> >
> >
> >
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