Guest guest Posted July 14, 2005 Report Share Posted July 14, 2005 Post # 2 Re: Okay, My Declaration is now a Legal, Public Doc Posted by _Sharon_ (http://counsel.net/cgi-bin/chatscripts/mailform.cgi?uid=kfc1955 & dmn=sgd.uge & nam\ e=Sharon & subject=Re:+Okay,+My+Declaration+is+now+a+Legal, +Public+Doc) on 7/08/05 Here is another portion of my declaration, followed by an article just out in the Seattle papers today. Friday, July 8, 2005 38 The manner in which GlobalTox endorses environmental risk assessment based on financial liability risk as opposed to health risk has served to fuel the national fear, contention, confusion and damage over the issue. Respectively attached as Exhibits 34, 35 and 36 are true and correct copies of: a news article, a letter to parents and a parental ToxLaw posting concerning Hale High School in Seattle, Washington. This school is indicative of much of the controversy over proper environmental risk assessments and remediation efforts. Schools are facing this challenge all over the country. Attached Exhibit 37 is a true and correct copy of a commentary I authored and is displayed on the School Mold Help website. It compares two schools: one assessed with the children being given the highest priority and one assessed by GlobalTox. Friday, July 8, 2005 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/231787_arborheights08.html Parents protest teacher's transfer By DEBORAH BACH SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Parents at a West Seattle elementary school have filed petitions with district officials in hopes of blocking the involuntary transfer of an award-winning math teacher. Femiano was accused of harassment by his principal after asking questions about his school's budget. The teacher also recently alerted state investigators to a mold infestation at the school, after the district failed to address the problem. Holding signs reading, " We Love Our Whistleblower -- Go Get Your Own " and, " Don't Shoot the Messenger, " a half-dozen Arbor Heights parents protested the planned transfer at Wednesday night's School Board meeting. One of them, Angie , said parents were " furious " to learn about Femiano's transfer, reportedly set for the upcoming school year. " He should be rewarded for his efforts, not forced out of the neighborhood school he has been working to improve for 14 years, " she said. Another parent, Beard, said the board must tell Superintendent Raj Manhas, who listened to the delegation silently, " not to allow principals to intimidate their teachers. " A frequent and impassioned speaker at School Board meetings, Femiano, 51, lobbied the district for months to address problems with a leaky pipe and mold at his school. After hearing students in his wing of the school complaining of mysterious headaches, colds and other ailments, Femiano and several other teachers filed a complaint in April with the Department of Labor and Industries, which has opened an investigation. Femiano, a first- and second-grade teacher who received a presidential award for elementary mathematics in 2002, believes the reasons for his transfer date back to June 2004, when he began asking questions about how Principal Carol Coram was spending the school's budget. Femiano said he asked the Seattle Education Association, the union representing district teachers, for a copy of the budget. A week later, Femiano said, his principal charged him with harassment. Femiano said he is being transferred in the fall to Sanislo Elementary, where he previously taught. The move, he told the board, " constitutes retaliation. " District spokeswoman Patti Spencer said several weeks ago that the transfer was not retaliatory. Jane Westergaard-Nimocks, the district's human resources director, declined to confirm yesterday whether Femiano will be transferred, if the district is responding to his allegations and if the alleged harassment is being investigated. " I can't talk about it, " she said. " It's a personnel issue. " P-I reporter Deborah Bach can be reached at 206-448-8197 or deborahbach@.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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