Peace Arch Elementary parents

This web blog is for all parents and was originally created for the parents of Peace Arch Elementary School. In recent months we have seen a number of parents visiting this site from several countries around the world and perhaps parents from other school districts can share their experiences, thoughts and comments to help us all make our schools a healthier and better place for all our children.

Thank you for taking the time to visit, contribute and share your ideas and comments. ~~~~~~~

Over the last few months we have had so many serious health issues that pertain to our school which directly affect the health of our children.

This web blog has been put up to provide a central place for all parents to turn to, to leave comments, ask questions and communicate.

As parents it is important for us to be able to stick together and protect our kids as best we can. Let's make our children's school as healthy as possible by voicing our concerns and our recommendations and hopefully our strength in words and numbers will lead to a healthier school for our kids.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Where has the time gone?

Well, here we are in October 2011 and I can't believe where summer went, and especially where did September go? 
Many meetings and events have taken place since spring in dealing with the mould and asbestos issues at our school and we'll try to keep the information and updates coming this fall but quickly for now we need to report that many kids are experiencing symptoms that can probably best be attributed to our school and at last the teachers are also starting to report conditions of their health that they have been experiencing for the last few years that they now know are from the state of the school.  One teacher has reported a sharp increase in nose bleeds from students in one pod over the last couple of years and in the library the ferns have grown back on the inside of the ceiling only to be taken down again last week during the time a class was in there. 

Crawlspaces have been opened up during class time in pod 300 and the contaminated air allowed to be released into the classroom. 

Workers have not been following proper safety regulations while working in the areas and once again we feel that we're somewhat back to square one. 

The healthy school meeting of last year really seemed to yield very little in the way of results and the frustration level of parents has only mounted.  Thankfully more parents have become aware of what is going on, done their own research and realized the seriousness of this for their own kids' health sake. 

Asbestos and mould (mold) are terrible things for our kids to be breathing in and we shouldn't be allowing the school to get away with this anymore.  In the end, this author believes it comes down to money.  The school board of Surrey (who happened to build an expensive new facility for themselves recently) does not want to spend the money to properly take care of this mess.  And honestly, Peace Arch Elementary probably needs to be torn down and re-built.  Get rid of the mould and asbestos for good.  Enough of the band-aid solutions that aren't working. 

Enjoy your weekend everyone and please feel free to add your comments or ask your questions here, we'll do our best to follow up. 

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