Calif. School Named for Al Gore May Be Toxic for Students
- Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:21pm by
Meredith Jessup
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A new $75 million campus dedicated to “environmental themes” has been named for former Vice President Al Gore (and Rachel Carson who championed environmentalists’ campaign against the use of DDT, a chemical used to fight off malaria-carrying mosquitos). The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is scheduled to open its doors for a new school year on September 13, but classes may be delayed unless excavation crews can successfully remove and replace toxic dirt on the premises:
Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. All told, workers removed dirt from two 3,800-square-foot plots to a depth of 45 feet, space enough to hold a four-story building. The soil had contained more than a dozen underground storage tanks serving light industrial businesses.
Additional contamination may have come from the underground tanks of an adjacent gas station. A barrier will stretch 45 feet down from ground level to limit future possible fuel leakage.
An oil well operates across the street, but officials said they’ve found no associated risks. Like many local campuses, this school also sits above an oil field, but no oil field-related methane has been detected.
Groundwater about 45 feet below the surface remains contaminated but also poses no risk, officials said. …
Before settling on honoring Gore, the school’s naming committee teased the idea of naming the school after a communist, but that idea was dropped after one member of the committee objected:
In the spring, a school-naming committee received six options, including Pete Seeger Community School. A representative from school board member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte suggested that the folk singer’s “affiliation with the Communist Party,” among other factors, made that choice inappropriate, two in attendance recalled.
Taking a page out of Michelle Obama’s book, the principal plans to install an organic food garden to supply a student-run farmers market. But Robina Suwol, head of the California Safe Schools coalition says that she’d feel better if the vegetables were grown in planters above-ground.
Better safe than sterile, I suppose.
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DRAIN_THE_CESSPOOL
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 2:32pmAl Gore is toxic…
Report Post »MikeinIdaho
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:54pmHow ironic! A 75 million dollar campus, dedicated to Algore and built on a toxic waste site! It’s too rich!
Report Post »Hey California, how proud are you of this debacle? When you will wake up and throw these idiots out on their butts?
Joseph
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 6:48pmThis is L.A., not California.It’s a seperate Republic like San Francisco, Topanga Canyon, and Santa Cruz.We are actually thinking of sawing off these parts of the land and kicking them off the join the Peoples Republic of China, where they belong.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 11:25pmThe truth is sometimes much stranger than fiction! Who would have ever thought to add this to a story plot??? I love it!
Report Post »lwilli301
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 11:53amThe real world is stranger than fiction. You just can not make this stuff up.
Report Post »Gigantopithecus
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 11:42amToo freaking funny. Al Gore is literally toxic.
Report Post »Luciani
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 11:17amJust the name makes me ILL!
Report Post »warriorcop
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 10:44amWell if this is going to be the trend then they can expect the Nancy Pelosi Hazardous Waste site or the Harry Reid Hoof in mouth medical center anytime soon
Report Post »NEVER4GET
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 10:28amIf I pulled up to this school NO way in hell would I let my kid get out of the car.
Report Post »missmarie
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 1:18pmI’m with you!
Report Post »Joseph
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 9:40amThis doesn’t suprise me at all. Back in 198o’s the L.A. Community College Dist just had to have a property for their new offices that took up a block. They bought it at the height of the last property over inflated prices and the buildings needed to be upgraded. During the rmodeling they discovered that it wasn’t the best geographical area for the workers, so they used it for a storage area for old furniture and equiptment. So they decided to relocate their offices in downtown L.A. and rented a building for 1.5 million dollars a month, and a parking facility down the street fo $125,000 a month for the employees. About this time the phraise “Moonbat” emerged since the pharoh’s/Board members would go balistic with the press when questioned about it. One of their prized Moonbats that supported their decision was no other than “ Maxine Waters”.
So this doesn’t suprise me at all. Remember,
Report Post »November!
November!
November!
tocsinia
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 9:30amIt seems another glaring monument to honor the libs of change without knowing the substance…….I’m just getting tired of paying for all of it.
Report Post »Debrabate
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 9:21amAll I can say is: hahahahahahahaha
as my 14 yr old said when I read her this she said “LOL! Mass PWNAGE!”
Irony rocks!
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 8:56amWhats next? The Bernie Madoff School?? Brilliant, name a school after a slimy con man/ scam artist
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 4:13amHave we run out of people of integrity and honorable character to name schools after?
What’s next, Keith Obermann Elementary School?
Report Post »scottystarnes
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 2:04amIt is fitting considering all the toxic pollutants that spew from Al’s mouth and the hot air that comes from this sex-crazed poodle. What is the carbon footprint left by all this construction. $75 billion could’ve kept a lot of teachers from being laid off. Enjoy that school California. It truly is the land of LaLa.
Report Post »Studdly
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:32amWow, they‘re trying to build a school that’s all about saving the planet and going organic. I learned in chemistry that anything that contains CARBON is organic. Anyway I think its a sign that when tax dollars are used to promote the self-righteous agendas of those who try to use the environment to gain power and indoctrinate our kids, a higher power comes along and makes them look like fools.
Report Post »StupidWindmill
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 1:10amActually, Organically growing things is different from the idea of what is organic and what is not.
Report Post »UhO
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:09amThis is rich! Their school mascot will be a guy wearing Hazmat gear! Gimme a F…“F” Gimme an A…“A”..Gimme an I…“I”…Gimme a L…“L”
Report Post »fearless patriot
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:56pmI live in California, nothing surprises me anymore. There must be more left leaning crazies in this state than anywhere else. Our state is flat broke and nobody with a right mind will buy our bonds. But they can find millions and millions for a high school. I wonder how many food stamp and welfare payments to the children of illegal aliens it takes to bankrupt a state? Before long, California is going to know the answer.
Report Post »br549
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:08am…and hopefully those GPS phones that the “Professor” at the University of California, San Diego, is giving to illegal immigrants lead them straight to California! Sorry, had to say it.
Report Post »Statesman
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:49pmThis makes it very clear that facts mean nothing those in charge of the Schools.
Al Gores phony movie can not be shown in schools in England with a disclaimer pointing it’s multiple errors in fact.
Thing is in recent months the whole GLOBAL WARMING HOAX has been exposed. And the so-called Hockey Stick graph was make using eaulty information that is totally unreliable.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:27pmLOL Okpulot, I LOL on that one.
Report Post »I remember this controversy from when they bought the property. The paid a boatload for it and then were barred from building b/c of the toxic dirt. The property sat vacant for years, until they scraped off the bare minimum of topsoil to build at a cost of 3 or for million (handling and disposal) and of course there were the usual accusations of kickbacks to the City Council. Then they spent another 75 million to build the school in the inner-city. This place will be trashed in no time flat, just like the other three equally exorbitantly priced “campuses” they just built. They are 6 million in the hole for the last one, as I recall. I wonder if Ca is getting one of those bailout packages?
patriotnerd
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 2:25pmGotta love irony!
Report Post »Republic
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:02pmThis speaks loads about the sad state of affairs in California and the people who run that state. Do you suppose that the school mascot will be the man-bear-pig?
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:09pmREPUBLIC asks, “Do you suppose that the school mascot will be the man-bear-pig?”
No. The school mascot will be a sex crazed poodle and cheerleaders will dress like masseuses.
Okpulot Taha
Report Post »Choctaw Nation
Conservachic
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 1:39amOh my gosh..too funny…sex-crazed poodle mascot & cheerlead masseuses!! That is great!
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 2:34amCONSERVACHIC giggles, “too funny”
SMARTPOOP guffaws, “LOL”
Name of this school mascot sex crazed poodle is “Chakra”.
Who says Indians do not have a sense of humor?
Okpulot Taha
Report Post »Choctaw Nation
oldmike
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:53pmMakes you wonder how much the United States taxpayer will have to fork out each year to pay for the upkeep and heating/cooling bills that ought to be just as extravagant as the initial costs. Ought to call it Can’t Help But Hope for Change HS or See what you get when you are not looking HS.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:48pmTo Quote Billy Crystal “UNBELIEVABLE” The Choice was a communist or Big Al Must be serving Kool-aid in the cafeteria…….
Report Post »pgrossjr
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:44pmContaminated with the carbon spewing from Al’s jet no doubt.
Report Post »tmarends
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:44pmNo wonder California is broke… “Let’s build a 75 million dollar school on a toxic waste site and name it after a faux-environmentalist”
Report Post »JF
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 11:04pmhahahaha, I agree, good comment!
Report Post »Jack27
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:40pmGoes to show you, he can be a liar, fraud, cheat, looser and whiner, and still win an Oscar and Nobel peace prize and be held high, as a liberal. This is what they pride themselves with.
Report Post »Ken
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 10:31pmOK, there’s a lot here to comment on, but can we start with “new $75 million campus”.
A $75 million dollar high school ? Really? That was necessary?
Report Post »br549
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:04amAnd you don’t figure out until it is completed that there is contaminated dirt? How many more millions did that add to it? And who got stuck with the “dirty” dirt? lol Only in California…
Report Post »Skandelon27
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:11amYou know that title is true in more than one way…
Report Post »Conservachic
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 1:36amLOL…I agree with Skandelon27, only…I thought the title of the article was referring to Gore’s name as being the toxic part…I didn’t know it had anything to do about the soil.
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 8:27amI wonder where all of that contaminated dirt ended up going…. You suppose maybe Gore offered to take it to shore up his $1 million beach front property in California? Because you KNOW that it will be under water in the near future due to global warming. Maybe the pontoons were not enough….
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 7, 2010 at 8:27amOOPS $11 million…. Sorry.
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