To Service Dogs and Other Threats to Air Quality, the Clover School District Says No Thanks
Take note, Seattle environmentalists: Your green bona fides have been trumped. 
Clover school district bans teachers from training service dogs on campus. In related news, the terrorists win.
Don't believe it? Witness today's news that, citing environmental concerns, the Clover School District in fair Pierce County will no longer allow district employees to bring their service dogs in training to campus.
District Superintendent Debbie LeBeau told the News Tribune that the reasons behind her decision were threefold: the dogs were a potential liability, possible distraction to the children and a "threat to air quality."
This on the heels of yesterday's chuckle session over that Seattle Times report on the New Zealand study that postulates that the trusty Fido lounging in your backyard might have just as big a carbon footprint as the SUV in your garage.
But carbon imprint doesn't necessarily entail degradation of air quality, unless of course LeBeau is talking generally about smell. Still, it indicates a growing unease with pets and their potential negative impact on the environment. To invoke a now well worn conceptual argument, could this be the tipping point in an all out race between Seattle and everybody else to solve what Caleb called our "canine conundrum?" It depends on what happens after tonight's elections.
So, your move Mr. Mayor, whoever the hell that ends up being.
2 comment(s)
Anonymous says:
Did you read the article?
>“The reasons for parents to be
>notified has to do with
>children’s allergies,” LeBeau
>said.
If the dogs are making people sneeze, don't bring them to the office.
Posted On: Tuesday, Nov. 3 2009 @ 3:08PM
cindy says:
MORE IMPORTANTLY>>>>Dear Legislators, Please try and get unbiased answers (1)- Does decaying plants or shrimp in our ocean cause carbon? (2)-Does
carbon cause or add to the grave acidic situation? (3)- Is spartina a C-4
sequestor of carbon?
If the answer is YES to any or all of the above questions, then (4)-
Shouldn't we rethink the policy of spraying chemicals in the ocean to
kill oxygen producing spartina and ghost shrimp?
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.We have been trying to get more facts concerning the acidic increase in
OUR ocean and how to slow it. Even though we probably live out of your
area we feel the oceans declining health is EVERYBODYS business, also
everyones state and federal tax dollars are used for spartina eradicating
chemicals. We are not tree hugger's, not even close, but rather two
ordinary everyday worried grandparents trying to open some eyes about the
grave acidic condition of our Ocean.
Thank you, Steve Bova and Cynthia Bova, two registered voters.
229 Toleak st
Ocean Shores WA 98569
360 580 5534
Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 4 2009 @ 7:56PM