Group Holds Symbolic Bake Sale To Raise Funds For Review Of Toxic School Site?
November 12, 2007
A group of parents, children, and school officials staged a pricey bake sale on the steps of City Hall Monday to raise the funds to pay for an independent environmental review of a toxic site in the Bronx where four schools are being built. The group says the city refused to give them the $11,000 to pay for the review, so they’re trying to raise it themselves with 11 cupcakes, priced at $1,000 each.
“It’s a shame that they put a price tag on our lives,? said P.S. 156 Parents Association member Sara McLaughlind. ?They’re building schools, which is a great thing, and we’re not opposed to that. Schools are great. But if you’re building schools and they’re not going to live to see their future what?s the sense of building schools?”
“If we’re going to have a school site we have to make sure that it is 100 percent safe for our kids. There’s no question about it,? said Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum.
The Department of Education says health and safety are its top priority and that it will continue to provide the Bronx community with reports about testing, construction and management of the site.
Source: NY1 / Bronx
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