EDITORIAL BELMONT'S FUTURE?AN instructive story in Wednesday's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times offers the most compelling argument against completing the Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. . The story deals with Southside High School Southside High School or South Side High School can refer to:
Twenty-one years later, some suspect that Southside has become a cancer cluster cancer cluster Epidemiology A cancer that occurs in a group of people living or working in a geographically defined region who may share one or more environmental factors–eg, DES, and a characteristic lesion–eg, vaginal adenoCA, in common. See Clusters. , with 53 reported cases among its 7,500 students and alumni, and a statistically abnormal rate of testicular cancer. While no one has determined a causal relationship between the school's industrial contamination and its cancer cases, the correlation has made many in the community rightfully concerned. This fall, the school board shut down Southside's athletic fields because scientists found elevated quantities of arsenic, barium, nickel and mercury in the soil. The school board, the town and the state must worry - not only about public health, but also about the prospect of further studies and potential lawsuits sapping their budgets for years to come. Are these the sorts of headaches and fears the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. wants to suffer for the next 25 years? Is a fancy new Belmont Learning Center worth the chance of endangering students' lives? There's no faulting Elmira officials for opening a high school on contaminated lands - in 1979, they didn't know any better. Today, we should. |
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