YOU DON’T KNOW. NO ONE KNOWS. NO ONE CAN KNOW. AND THAT’S A WRONG.
You can’t see a traffic crash before it happens. You can’t see toxic vehicle exhaust as it seeps through the air and enters a lung. You can’t see gasoline vapors from an as yet to be built gas station poisoning air and lungs. You can’t see a gas explosion and fire before it happens. You can’t see a huge congested roundabout intersection up in the field by the school near the front doors before it is built. No one knows, not even the West Virginia Division of Highways what will work and what will not, at first or in the future. No one knows to what extreme traffic will increase, except that it will and by a lot. You can’t see the dangers, damages, hazards, and potentially lethal conditions impending but you can know with certainty that they would exist and that this would be unlawful, wrong, and potentially lethal for any school children in that area.
The nearby alternate sites for a school or schools are stable and knowable and safe. You can see it, and you can know it.
Should schoolchildren be asked to pay with their health and their lives for a school located where the school officials prefer to locate it, in violation, no less, of state mandates? How dare these officials? Read the rest of this entry »
New Woodburn Community School 