It would be quite funny if it wasn't so sad but while our Chameleons Montessori school is fighting tooth and nail to remain in the middle of a working wine farm and to thereby continue exposing children unnecessarily to potential heath risks, over in Ontario, Canada, the Stratford Montessori school is part of an enlightened champaign to make their environment pesticide free.
You can have a read about the project by following this link.
It's reassuring to see that there are Montessori schools in the world who really do care about their children's health and that our school may hopefully only be an anomaly it it's inability to see the best way forward in terms of creating a safer and healthier world for our children to grow up in.
I would just like to comment on some of the unprofessional "attacks" being made on the Galileo group. How one can become involved in a slanging match (and we are all supposed to be adults) amazes me! We are never really going to get a "real" answer and so it all boils down to individual choice that all parents must face...do we risk our children in this environment or not...why are people attacking the very core of a parent's right to protect their child/children??? When one reads all the information available the obvious choice is to rather NOT take the risk of keeping our children here than years of regret down the line. So many things in our world were deemed "safe" and after many years of investigation proved to be otherwise so I don't see how this is going to be any different. I admire these parents for being open to following up every lead in order to provide information so that everyone else can hopefully come to their own decision. And I firmly believe in the old quote "Where's there's smoke there's fire". The truth will always come out in the end...and Ghandi hit the nail on the head with "Evil flourishes when good men stand back and do nothing". Make your own decision but remember your children cannot talk for themselves as they are too young and they rely on their parents, so make the correct decision for their future and don't be drawn into any slanging match and unprofessional remarks...your children will thank you in the end.
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