A few Fast Facts about the Flint Water Crisis that has stretched beyond five years now. Flint started getting its water from the Flint River rather than Detroit while a new pipeline was being considered. Since then, the city manager has overruled a City Council proposal to use Detroit’s water again, fecal bacteria has been found in the water in addition to lead, the local GM plant has stopped using city water, and the effects are starting to spiral out of control.
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That’s right. A cash strapped school system is faced with an increased need for “struggling with demands for individualized education programs and behavioral interventions for children with high lead exposure”.
Think about that. We have known that lead is dangerous for a long time. After five years of exposure Every Damn Day, the city’s students are paying the price for inaction on the water supply in Flint.
The contamination of this long-struggling city’s water exposed nearly 30,000 schoolchildren to a neurotoxin known to have detrimental effects on children’s developing brains and nervous systems.
Requests for special education or behavioral interventions began rising four years ago, when the water contamination became public, bolstering a class-action lawsuit that demanded more resources for Flint’s children.
This is nothing less than a national disgrace.
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