TEACHERS
Annie Cacciato - OH
Gail Orcutt - IA
Erin Farackas - UT
Debbie Greenman - WA
Stephanie Marks Peace - FL
Stephanie Langstraat -IA
Anita Ehlers - IL
Gloria Linnertz - IL
Erin Morrissey - MD
Kimberly Buchmeier - NE
SUPPORTERS
13
My name is Stephanie Peace. I am 45 years old and have been a teacher for 23 years now. In July of 2016. I found out I had non smokers lung cancer stage 4. How could this be? My family is devastated. As one fighting for their life, you would want to know how this could have happened seeing as you are not a smoker. All my years working in different schools and watching so many teachers I have known fall victim to cancer sends chills down my spine. There must be some correlation between all the years breathing in possible toxins in our schools that cause not just lung cancer but also many cancers. Radon is an odorless gas that seems, was a no-brainer, as to how I got this terminal illness. As a radon awareness advocate and still working teacher and mom of three, I am strongly urging legislators to consider radon testing in our schools! With vaping epidemic on the rise as well
with our kids, educating and spreading
awareness is the biggest fight we can
give to teachers working with cancer
AND all our youth attending our schools
in America! I am hopeful with the right
people listening and acting on this,
more testing can be done in our
schools for this deadly gas, radon.
Thank you,
Stephanie Peace
Cape Coral Florida
2018 Number of instructional days and hours in the school year, by state
29