Re: Yellow duckies and other killers

[Guest guest]

It is unfortunate that we are now faced with how we keep our kids safe

from toxins, which somehow " got past " all authorities charged with

keeping our kids safe. But let us all take a step back or look in the

rear view mirror.

We now know that many products imported from China are loaded with

lead. We have lobbyists and our elected officials to thank for that.

" Outsourcing " to countries beyond our borders has given away American

jobs belonging to Americans.

We also need to look at stuff made of plastic that we now know to be

dangerous. Someone let them through. In fairness, as a career

pre-school teacher, I welcomed the plastics in the classroom. They

were easy to keep clean. I could take a hamper of Duplos® (Legos®

made for younger kids) and toss them in my washer, with hot water,

detergent and a little bleach, and that kept them clean. I would take

the baskets (that held those educational materials) made of plastic

and put them in the dishwasher. Again, clean. Kids drool and put

stuff in their mouths. With 25 kids, you just can't put yourself and

everyone else at risk of strep, staph or whatever.

That said, we can point fingers, but let us remember when stuff came

in glass. It is heavy and it breaks! Stitches for sure, when a kid

falls on a broken bottle. Plastic made our life easier. Why can't it

be made safe? Someone knew that this stuff was dangerous. But it

looks like " hide the ball " again. We look " back " now. We should have

been looking " forward " back then.

Things were made with rounded corners, which did not cut small

fingers. And, cardboard boxes which held board games, fall apart very

easily. Those games never ended up on my educational materials order.

They did not stand up to the constant use and re-use of the kids

work(play is their work!)

There seem to be some " grades " of plastic which are safer than others.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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> The parts of the article that struck home was Canada was taking in

> active roll in contamination in schools, be it from mold, pesticides

> and now they are trying to have all " scents " banned from schools.

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[Guest guest]

taking a look at the big picture is bigger than you think! Where are

the bees and the butterfly disapearing to? why do the elms have fungus

wilt? We have arrived at the mad scientist era....with proper channels

being by-passed. Proper testing is being skirted around and the

devestating consequences are arriving a new dawn, and there is little

we can do about it. The very people we have in charge to be protecting

our environment are being underminded by the " Industry " a careless

whisper becomes a poisonous scream! An example of this horrific

occurance is at biotechnology.kaiserpapers.info Kaiser is doing

research on Morgellens.....

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> It is unfortunate that we are now faced with how we keep our kids safe

> from toxins, which somehow " got past " all authorities charged with

> keeping our kids safe. But let us all take a step back or look in the

> rear view mirror.

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[Guest guest]

I don't disagree that there are environmental problems ( I grew up in

a house with Carson's book and a parent who was a member of the

Izaak Walton League of America, defenders of soil, water and air.)

What I mean, and there is only one section of what I wrote showing, so

the " context " is absent, my issue was safety in children's school

products. It was easier to keep those materials clean and safe, than

dealing with flimsy cardboard boxes which are huge harbors for

dustmites, a prominent Asthma trigger. Those are a real problem for

children.

My experience with school and educational materials is thirty years,

plus. The first issue in a classroom is safety.

We live in a sad world of " Universal Precautions " - when there is a

child (and we do not know who is exposed to the " virus " for privacy

reasons) who has a cut that is bleeding, everyone is at risk for

HIV/AIDS. With the use of glass, that chance of a child being injured

rises dramatically.

You cannot prevent everything, but you can keep as many surfaces and

objects rounded and not sharp. We don't live in a perfect world.

If there is some blame, it should be on those agencies, which approved

all the plastics which are poisonous, and who let poison toothpaste

into our country. We pay a lot of tax money to keep those agencies in

business.