GARDEN GOING OVER LIKE A LEAD BALLOON

Ingalls School garden spouts new grumbles

The calender says MARCH but I swear this must be GROUNDHOG DAY  cause just like the movie we seem to be living the same thing over again, because the LSC can't seal the deal.

Being a former chemistry major I understand the thinking about the thinking behind the testing methodology kind of, At least on the leafy vegetable or whatever you want to call parsley, samples were taken at several locations, all mixed together and parsley soup was made. Then that soup was tested for lead if there was significant lead anywhere it would have shown up in the soup. So in this case, even though only one test was done, a number of locations were tested. I assume the same test type of was done with the root vegetable. I would have felt a little more comfortable if a flowering portion or fruit portion of the plant was sampled (here we go again, is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable, Well REAGAN said ketchup was a vegetable) too. It's not so much the type of plant tested as the location in the plant the test were done.

What's that $1000 going to buy you? Not necessarily new test. Probably not new tests, just somebody to look over the old one. JOHN FORD was right he is not a scientist, but neither is MIKE DONOVAN or MARILYN O'CONNER. They might be more knowledgeable than MR. FORD, MS. PULEO. or I when it comes to reading these test results but there is also the question of objectivity.

The problem is this has become about Marguerite Puleo and not about the science. Some are trying to paint her as a crazy old lady on a personal vendetta and as long as they keep trying to be confrontational, their false analogy will become a self fulfilling prophecy.

From Marguerite's standpoint,  she has become a lightning rod for controversy becoming the focal point of the argument rather than the facts. It is time for one of the other people who signed that petition to step up and use their BIG BOY or GIRL voice.

MAKE NO MISTAKE, I AM FOR GARDENS. Being from Appalachia (kind of like another country with WV as the capital) that goes without saying. HIP-HOP for us was about skipping stones on a lake. I just want to see DUE DILIGENCE done and not being to ready to DEEP-SIX the science so we can paint a new caricature for our newly designated CULTURAL DISTRICT. If we are so worried about old chemicals preventing BIKE TRAILS, it seems like we ought to have an equal level of concern about lead affecting our MCAS scores.