Parents of Kinder or 1st grade students. Are you excited about locking your kid in a room sitting on top of a contaminant so nasty that cleanup, if possible at all, could take multiple decades. Exposure occurs simply by breathing the air. The Google buildings sitting on the stuff released TCE contamination not too long ago. They've been working on the TCE Superfund site since the 80s.

I'm not a chicken little, but I would never ever EVER let my kid sit in TCE land day after day. It's laughable that it's being suggested by the Army.
Market rate prices for a contaminated site...for a SCHOOL! Oh yah, I can't see anything wrong with this plan at all. Boy, oh boy, it's a real slam dunk. Please release the nmame of the person suggesting this horrific idea.

Has anyone bothered to look at the statistics for Polycythemia Vera or Leukemia in Mountain View? It would also be interesting to look at birth defects. Between the TCE-contaminated soil and the awful water, it seems like a pretty toxic place to live.

If you were to see a map of the small area of contamination as well as the verified water studies in MV you would realize you're assumption "it seems like a pretty toxic place to live." is pretty silly and only based on some bad headlines. It's like saying your entire refrigerator is full of rotten food because there's some stinky celery in the back corner of the produce bin.

I thought it a huge mistake for the high school district to sell (in about 1980) the original Mountain View High School site at Church and Shoreline to the City of Mountain View to create Eagle Park. It was pretty obvious even than that Mountain View's free land was going to disappear and that the land would still be needed for a new school due to future population growth. It would have been far better for the school district to lease the high school and land on a short-term lease to hold it in reserve to need future needs, just as Palo Alto did when it closed Cubberly HS. If the HS district had kept this land in reserve, we'd still be having this discussion, but only for elementary schools and not also the MVLA HS district.

And MVWSD sold land at Klein Park, Cuesta Park Annex, Sylvan Park, Cooper Park, and maybe others.

MVWSD did not sell Cooper. The district sold Sylvan but retained the right to build a school on the site if needed.

This is a joke, right? A school on a toxic waste plume?

Enough already. No more apartments, no more cars, no more schools and no more bond measures. Stop the insane growth!!!!!

I think MV is open to any and all areas for growth now. Costs be damned

There is no way I would ever send my child to a school on a toxic waste site like that. Maybe others aren't so concerned (I know there is some housing being built on similar sites in MV and people seem to buy it, maybe they don't know or don't care) but I am absolutely concerned and would never send my children to a school like that.

I hope if a school is built there, only residents moving in later in North Bayshore would be assigned to that school, and of course given the proper warnings so they can make the decision for themselves before moving in. I certainly hope current MV residents would not be re-assigned from their current LA or MV schools to this new school, considering that is not at all what we signed up for when we bought our houses. This isn't about test scores, this is a legitimate concern about fundamental health and safety of children attending that school. I would sue the school district before allowing us to be re-assigned to a school sitting on a known toxic waste site. I'm usually not so confrontational, but this is something I feel very strongly about.

Why don't they use that land to build housing (there are already some new housing sites in MV built on known TCE sites and at least some people don't seem to mind living there). People who aren't so concerned about it can choose to live there, then use other land in North Bayshore that is know to be safe to build a new school?