Richard Weeks, 2010. Last Wednesday evening, the fictitious Liberty District School Board spent an hour discussing rental fees for the new Liberty Elementary School playground and athletic fields. During the televised discussion, the district’s school business official passed the superintendent a note that read, “Shouldn’t we be more concerned about the possi- bility that the pressure-treated wood on the playground is contaminated with arsenic?” The superintendent passed the note back to her with this response: “Now is not the time nor the place to discuss the possibility of leeched arsenic all over the playground. Please handle this tomorrow.”
