03-13-2019, 03:39 AM
It's not a strawman - just a summary of your questions ending with "If you are truly concerned about compromised cognitive development, then you identify the most significant source of the problem first and treat that first - not spending time and resources on random and possibly irrelevant sources."
Combined with your implication of alcohol and marijuana use as more significant health impacts (including for kids in elementary school), your apparent suggestion (but not a plan) is to study and compare all the major possible health impacts for all kids before spending time and resources on addressing them?
It's hard to imagine saying one supports academic achievement while decrying remediation as their tax dollars fund public schools that routinely expose their students to elevated levels of lead, arsenic, & organochlorine pesticides? Maybe easier just to call it an extended hands-on, in-the-field, direct science learning opportunity?
Combined with your implication of alcohol and marijuana use as more significant health impacts (including for kids in elementary school), your apparent suggestion (but not a plan) is to study and compare all the major possible health impacts for all kids before spending time and resources on addressing them?
It's hard to imagine saying one supports academic achievement while decrying remediation as their tax dollars fund public schools that routinely expose their students to elevated levels of lead, arsenic, & organochlorine pesticides? Maybe easier just to call it an extended hands-on, in-the-field, direct science learning opportunity?