Mould is health, not political issue - or the Empero...

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I agree that things are broken and there is NO safety net. I tried that

approach at first, and found the 'real deal' was to blame YOU for the problem -

to assert that YOU are crazy,

or YOU are incompetent, and what follows is a methodical campaign to undermine

the 'whistleblowing' teacher in the classroom, have parents switch their kids to

a 'better' teacher and actually 'punish' the kids...amazing stuff happened to my

class. They were singled out for no field trips, my book orders 'disappeared' -

one year - the first in the moldy classroom I was given

2 packs of yellow lined paper - pencils and NOTHING else to open a new Grade

One.

If America only knew what went on when a teacher entered a moldy classroom and

reported the unhealthy conditions, change might come more quickly. The

'attitude' of the Canadian School Administrator is the defensive, mean spirited

response which attempts to stifle any reporting of unhealthy classroom

conditions. The classroom purports to be the safe haven of the child.

Yet, teachers among have the highest rates of auto immune disease.

Education has, sadly become a business, driven by book contracts, bus

contracts, meal contracts. When you threaten the big money makers, trouble

always follows. School Boards are seduced at conventions like the Great City

Schools or National School Board Conventions by those feeding at the trough of

the education system in this country. Even sadder, are the universities who

have researchers 'planted' in classrooms gathering data for doctoral candidates

to get doctorates in education and for universities to get funding from school

systems.

When a teacher reports an unhealthy condition, all the dough is in danger of

going out the window. A great deal is at stake for the school administration

and the political infrastructure of the school system. My particular

experience was in politics in a big city, and my own little corner of the world

in my Kindergarten. I purposely distanced myself from the bureacracy in order

to do what I loved best. God, had other plans I guess for me.

By getting sick and abused, I got pissed off enough to drop my life's dream of

a Fulbright Teaching Exchange in France and 6 years of part time study to go to

law school. It was what offered me a buffer against the powers that be. I was

lucky not to be found in a body bag. If I lost my health and got cancer and

died, my own kids would have no mother. I already had a chunk of my health gone

and I was pissed off so I had nothing to lose and that made me very dangerous.

I testified at any open publc meeting I could, under the protection of 'fair

comment on a matter of public concern'' as often as possible and wove my own

'kevlar' vest. I wrote from my bed. I did all my legal research in bed. I

saved my precious little energy for my classes and structured my days around

that instruction, analyzing everything from the perspective of a teacher, and

found that at my law school, the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, Mass.,

support that was absent in the educational community.

It is frightening and America should be very afraid of the way teachers are

treated because the 'trickle' down runs right to the kids. If teachers cannot

report classroom toxic exposures without fear of reprisal, they WON'T REPORT.

These 'exposure' injuries, as the Workers Compensation course taught me are

very hard to prove, because it they are not like a traumatic injury to a limb,

where an xray will offer irrefutable proof. Few doctors have experience with

these 'exposure' injuries because of the limit on thier medical training and the

pressure from insurance companies to NOT report these problems and refer the

patient to a mental health provider. Guess what? The psychiatrists know that

whistle blowers - not just the 'compromised' end up there and it can be an

unlikely place for emotional support because they know the system of top-down

bullies and employer abusers.

If people look up the Geneva Convention of 1924 they will find that the same

toxins they are exposed to from toxic mold have been recognized since the Old

Testament in Leviticus.

They will see that early scientists used mold to kill bacteria in the

ying-yang that is how good and useful medical treatment has evolved. Mold in

penicillin is a wonderful thing. Airborne mold is not. Mold on paper and books

is not. What a foolish woman to make a comment that is so irresponsible. The

Canadian government uses MSDS lists that are more user friendly than those in

the United States, who hide the mycotoxins in complex chemical non

understandable terms. She has totally contradicted what her official government

publications have offered non- Canadians, which is plain-language descriptions

of mycotoxins and biohazards. In effect, she and her position of authority and

irresponsible comments have actually helped the cause. What a fool.

LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> a écrit :

I think that shock is a common reaction when people realize that this

stuff

- people getting sickened, and then evicted or fired, with no compensation

of any kind, happens to people - a lot of people, all the time, and that the

response is so often hostility but unfortunately, most people still want SO

much to believe that there is a safety net that when you tell people about

it you get still MORE hostility and disbelief from them, driving sick people

further and further and further into fear and isolation and both social and

economic marginalization. The system in essence teaches them through

punishment and negative pressure to be silent and accept their fates.

The only way to address these issues is to get people together to change the

laws. The market is broken and these things will NOT fix themselves with a

continuation of the 'honor system' of self-regulation we have now. And even

if the government eventually does step in and do what is necessary, the

changes will take a LONG time to happen. (typically, there is a gap of ten

years or so before the first real studies on an issue and the results, then

another ten - or maybe even twenty years before regulations actually become

binding)

In that time, if an effort isn't made to enlighten people on the issues, I

am sure that a LOT more people's lives will be destroyed.