Redistricting students, staff begins at Jana Elementary School

FLORISSANT, Mo. — Redistricting for Jana Elementary college students and personnel started off this Monday across five different educational institutions: Barrington Elementary, Brown Elementary, Coldwater Elementary, McCurdy Elementary and Walker Elementary. 

Jana continues to be shut subsequent an impartial report accomplished by the Boston Chemical Details Company that identified radioactive squander on faculty grounds.

Tests done by the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers and SCI Engineering, however, demonstrates the amounts are harmless.

Mallinckrodt Chemical Functions, positioned north of downtown St. Louis, processed a majority of the uranium for the developing of the initially atomic bomb.

The waste from Mallinckrodt was transported and stored at a website north of St. Louis Lambert International Airport from 1947 until finally the late 1960s.

It was then bought by Continental Mining and Milling Company and moved to a web site half a mile away.

The atomic bomb substance was not stored in a protecting manner and this resulted in the washing of radioactive waste into nearby Coldwater Creek, contaminating numerous areas which includes north St. Louis County. Jana sits on the edge of Coldwater Creek.

“This local community has been disrupted in an unfair way that has designed a perception of placeless-ness exactly where we genuinely had a wonderful place,” PTA President Ashley Bernaugh said.

Bernaugh is seeing this as a result of two lenses: Jana’s PTA President, and Jana’s parents.

“I’m disappointed in the rollout,” she stated. “It’s no shock we sense like we haven’t been treated as equal associates.”

PTA President Ashley Bernaugh reported she’s let down with the Hazelwood College District’s oversight.

“Hazelwood College District is a leader, an educator. This is the excellent possibility to do the local community schooling we noticed accomplished close to COVID. Or completed close to community literacy for that make a difference,” she reported.

 Other parents like Jason Bell mentioned they feel the identical.

“They’re considering about the several vs . the few,” he stated.

Bernaugh claimed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for cleaning the waste up.

“If the relaxation of Coldwater Creek that comes right before Jana is not cleaned up, how do we guarantee Jana’s school home is not re-contaminated?”

Bell said the selection to redistrict could have lingering outcomes on any college students, together with his have daughter.

“If matters appear up, we have to handle it. If little ones are bullied, we have to regulate it. If the kids aren’t receiving resources they essential for the reason that they did not get it from their other college, we have to regulate it,” he explained.

Bernaugh explained even this problem will not split the Jana group.

“It’s an opportunity for our community to say ‘enough is plenty of,’ and that our group deserves much better,” she said.

5 On Your Aspect did arrive at out to the Hazelwood School District asking what’s next pursuing the redistricting. 

“Jana learners and employees have been successfully reassigned to colleges. The district has no new details to provide at this time.”