Safety and Health in Schools

Students across America are not properly being taught about many of the safety and health issues with lead. Many students being as young as 4 years old and as old as high schoolers are getting ad into their systems causog permanent brain damage. Schools should avoid using lead materials and paints to prevent the younger students from getting lead poisoning. The older students should be aware of such things and not become exposed to lead through chipping walls from unproperly cared for walls and ceilings. Water fountains should also be required to be filtered properly before being used. Over hundreds of thousands have high lead-in-blood levels which could be the reason for why this generations general knowledge level is lower than the previous.

Mold is another safety concern for many schools. Some schools do well at cleaning out mold within their schools however the schools that don't do such a good job may possibly be harming their own students by not caring for the building as it should be. School food is improving however in the past 5 years there have still been too many food poisoning reports from schools only in Philly to be called safe. Many parents rely on school meals for their students to eat but they are not always aware that what they are eating may cause harm to the child. The funding for schools could be used for this but instead funding may be going towards other unnecessary things within school or even things non-school or safety related.