Roundup sprayed near children and teacher at school
Dear Folks
I am a teacher here in California.
On Feb.06.01, I was standing on the playground, when I was
sprayed with Roundup. There had been no notice to teachers, Office or staff
about spraying being done that day.
The building closest to the spraying were all children
under the age of 6 yrs. and Special Ed. All of these children are very
vulnerable to the effects of toxic materials. There were four preschool
classrooms one special Ed. and two kindergartens.
These are the same children that some teacher is going to
say are ADD. The parents will not know that they are showing the damage from
toxic chemical exposure. Their bodies to be further assaulted by chemicals
possibly to make them ready to learn.
If this is happening with the Health Schools Act, as of Jan
1st,01, what was happening before !!!!!
(Note from Ann: I am a sub-teacher for San Luis Obispo County Schools and was assigned to Lucia mar District for the Calif State Preschool for the day. )
(UPDATE: There has been an investigation---? Violations were found in school
district. yet no parent is being told that their child who stayed all day in the area was exposed to Roundup.
The Health department has decided not to tell the parents because the stuff dried in one hour. !)
RESPONSES TO THIS LETTER:
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this info!
Have you also written to the Children's Environmental Health Network?
Also, you may wish to look up info on RoundUp ... Steve's site or EHN's.
And, I certainly hope you write to Gov. Davis.
If you live in Alameda County, I would suggest you also let Kieth Carson know.
http://www.co.alameda.ca.us/board/keith.htm
If you live in another county, write to your county supervisor.
I sincerely hope you and the children were able to scatter away from the brunt of the chemical assault so you all didn't become dreadfully
ill from that attack.
-- Barb Wilkie
Are there criminal statutes in California that might apply here?
--Richard Franke, Loyola College, Baltimore
This has been banned in MA. There is no pesticide use allowed in or
around schools while the school is in session.
There is some headway being made on other fronts. We went before the MA pesticide board in order to ban the use of Methoprene in bodies of water
containing fish and shell fish on Wed. Feb. 21. Wellmart the multi national Chemical company sent four representatives to shut us down and
discredit our research. After listening to both sides the Ma. Pesticide board agreed to open an investigation on the use on Methoprene in MA.
AP story follows.
Norm
I was forwarded your e-mail by Safe2Use.
Coincidentally, my wife is also a school teacher, with a 4th grade class
of 30 students.
Your chemical exposure is actionable under the doctrine of
negligence, in addition to other legal remedies. You should be aware that you, and the exposed children, have
one year to act against the applicator of the pesticide, and even less time to
act if it is against the school, if public usually an entity of the city and
therefore leaving you with six months to file a complaint.
Chemical exposure can cause serious harmful effects, as the
people at Safe2Use know.
DARREN S. ENENSTEIN
ENENSTEIN, RUSSELL & SALTZ, LLP
10866 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, FIFTEENTH FLOOR
LOS ANGELES, CA 90024-4303
(310) 441-9710
dse@ersllp.com
www.ersllp.com
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