Re: Daughter's School and Discretion

[Guest guest]

Sorry I neglected this point. There are two ways in which one can

address sensitive issues. First is as an individual, doing so in

privacy and perhaps indirectly. The problem with that is that you

are going to be lied to, condescended to and generally anything

revealed will later be denied if it turns out to be inconvenient for

someone.

The other way is to be WAAY public about it but through the use of a

mechanism which will treat it as simply a new but very common

policy. That requires involving PTA and other entitities and

planing out a policy that suits the need in advance for their

adoption.

Contact some of the tools for schools groups and other activist for

input on such policies as public maintanence records, books of MSDS

sheets for parents to see all products used on site, IPM policies

for pest control and parent registries for advance notification of

pesticide use (only available in maybe a dozen states currently by

law) etc. A laison with the school can be elected or appointed

making this kind of thing policy and not a favor or a threat.

Hope that helps - someone sympathetic among the teaching staff might

want to volunteer for the laison position as well, usually someone

with health problems themselves.

Barb

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> Um, discretely?

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> I can't imagine how you could do such a thing