Steven Potter:
What are other parents that you're speaking to about this saying, and what are they concerned about?

Shannon Pahlicek:
Transparency keeps coming up, you know? As they're going through this process, sometimes it's taking longer than expected for schools to be cleared, which is a good thing in the sense that you want them to do the work right — but making sure that they're also communicating with the families and keeping them abreast of what's happening. There's a portion on the website where you can access some of the information, but, you know, it's really on a school-by-school basis. And so it would be nice to have principals be able to directly contact the families, and let them know like, "Hey, here's where our school is at." Because displacing students — relocating them, I mean — it's disruptive to families. So, transparency keeps coming up — communication, clarity about the scope of the problem, and what the plan is moving forward beyond cleaning protocols.

Steven Potter:
So hopefully this gets taken care of — it gets mitigated, it gets abated, the students in the future are going to be safe. What about the students who lived through all of this over the decades?

Shannon Pahlicek:
Yeah, I mean, lead is a neurotoxin, obviously. It has lifelong consequences for students, depending on their exposure level. So, I don't know — I guess I don't know what the recompense is for those families. Obviously, you want to make sure that students that have been exposed are tested and the district has provided testing clinics for that, and making sure that they're talking with their health care providers for how to best mitigate any issues that arise from it.