Laura Reintjes

I always thought schools are safe places for students. However Hellgate, where I attend high school, uses pesticides that are illegal to even label as safe.

A records request found them to be using pesticides 7,000 times more toxic than DDT. They use multiple pesticides that cause cancer. They use a pesticide with one of the highest rates of secondary poisoning to mammals and birds, and that same pesticides accidentally poisons over 10,000 people in the US annually with the majority being children.

Every single Hellgate student and staff member is three times more likely to develop Parkinson’s than people with no connection to the high school because of the pesticides they use. My school can’t be called safe when it is contaminated with poisons.

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