From:
Monona Rossol <0000030664c37427-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject:
Re: [DCHAS-L] Juries award students, parents, teachers $247 million for toxic exposure at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe
Date:
Feb 4, 2022 16:50 UTC
Reply-To:
Monona Rossol
In-Reply-To:
Re: [DCHAS-L] Juries award students, parents, teachers $247 million for toxic exposure at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe
OK, good point. I'm from an era where that was not considered a bad word, but it is now. Also remember I was applying the term to how they were treating me and my colleagues. I was not applying it to others. Monona
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From: Jack Reidy <jreidy2**At_Symbol_Here**STANFORD.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Sent: Fri, Feb 4, 2022 11:32 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Juries award students, parents, teachers $247 million for toxic exposure at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe
Monona,
I agree with your points, and definitely share your frustration on anti-vaxxers. For the sake of professional courtesy, though, could we perhaps all agree to avoid using words that are harmful to many people, such as the word "retarded?"
Sincerely,
Jack Reidy (he/him)
Research Safety Specialist, Assistant Chemical Hygiene Officer
Environmental Health & Safety
Stanford University
484 Oak Road, Stanford, CA, 94305
Tel: (650) 497-7614
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
On Behalf Of Monona Rossol
Sent: Friday, February 4, 2022 6:47 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Juries award students, parents, teachers $247 million for toxic exposure at Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe
While I'm all for getting damages from them what did the original booboo, I think some of this should be partly paid for by the communities themselves by holding
liable the school boards and administrators who have known for decades that this needs to be done and they didn't do it. I'm betting you could go through the minute books of every district going back to 1979 and find multiple times the PCBs were brought up
on somebody's to-do list or in response to some teacher's complaint and they did nuttn'.
On a similar situation: I remember trying to talk to parents and administrators in meetings in a school full of 9/11 dust and being treated like a retarded infidel.
All they wanted to do was get the kids back in school and they refused to listen to our presentation about the asbestos and other constituents in that dust. It was just like talking to anti vaxers today. And now those sick and dying kids and teachers, who
are much older, are getting all kinds of attention and sympathy as if they had no part in this. I'm sorry for them, but they also haven't apologized for their rudeness to the people who unambiguously told them this would happen.
Either part of the blame should be on victims who are given the information and time to fix things and they don't lift a finger, or there should be an accommodation
for the victim's degree of bullheadedness and stupidity written into the laws.
Obviously, this is not starting out to be a good day.
