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Friday, January 3, 2014

Reclaim Reform | by Ken Previti

Reclaim Reform | by Ken Previti:

Who is poisoning our children and causing them to fail high stakes tests?

Who is poisoning our children and causing them to fail high stakes tests?
No, this is not a joke, satire or fictional situation. It has been going on for several years. The persons who are doing this are not being prosecuted. The persons involved are doing it for personal profit. Let’s connect the dots to a logical conclusion.
  • Lead poisoning causes brain damage in children. Even the consumption or inhalation of lead at mere dust levels causes measurable brain damage and accompanying learning disabilities.
  • The legal fiction of making corporations people (corporate personhood) allows banks to have human rights without full legal responsibility.
  • Banks need not disclose or remediate lead-based paint or other flaws – even though actual human beings who sell homes are required to do so.
  • Children are failed, teachers are fired, schools are closed, state and federal funds are denied (Common Core State Standards, Race to the Top, etc.) to communities which are devastated by the low scores of children in poor urban areas and children in middle class and affluent areas of older vintage homes.
Child with cashIn spite of many people who deny the affects of lead poisoning as they serve as “experts” in legal cases, lead paint consumption by children causes brain damage and