OUR STATE LEGISLATURE IS GUILTY OF CHILD NEGLECT

ONE IN FIVE AMERICANS WORK AT OR ATTEND K-12 SCHOOLS
“According to estimates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, half of these adults and children spend their school days breathing air polluted with toxic chemicals, mold, viruses, bacteria, asbestos, pesticides, smog and particulates from vehicle pollution, and more.”  According to the National Education Association, this is around 29 million students and school employees whose health and learning may be impacted every day.

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Who are our elected officials working for?


One of my strongest happy childhood memories was made when my dad took us kids fishing.  As you see in the photo below, My brother and I caught a bunch of fish. Dad taught us to clean the scales off of them so the fish could be fried.  As I handed my mom the results of my first attempt at cleaning fish,  after she inspected them carefully, I remember her hugging me and saying “You are growing up.
Because of new alarms now sounding about scary levels of a well-known category of pollution being found the flesh of freshwater fish, she would not eat my catch today. According to a January report from Duke University and The Environmental Working Group, eating a single serving of freshwater fish is equivalent to consuming a month’s worth of contaminated drinking water.

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Making the invisible visible is crucial to our survival


Our world is changing.  As the pace of change gets faster, the personal and national stress level rises.  Covid + egg prices + climate change + school issues + China sending a balloon across America + Ukraine war + ‘work from home’ + inflation = a lot of anxiety and fear. Some people attempt to control their anxiety by denying the existence of threats.
Not a good idea if we need to change to survive and protect our kids and our country.
We need to figure out how to talk to one another, one frightened person to another – quickly, so we can bring about needed change.

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