Read this Lansing State Journal story by John Schneider about Bingham School Principal Freya Rivers and her outstanding advocacy for three of her students. She deserves to be called out and recognized in our community for taking the extra step of sharing her experience.
Three of her very young students came to school sharing how their home had no running water and how the mom used money to get the water turned on to buy a ferret.
With other pets in the house, the kids had to endure animal poop on their beds, in their clothes and throughout the house.
Calls to Child Protective Services produced four home visits with no apparent action taken by these state watchdogs for children. She called Ingham County’s Animal Control and got quick action which resulted in police being called and in the kids being place with grandparents temporarily.
Principal Rivers then went to Schneider who then shared the experience. It makes you ask how many more times similar stories are being repeated in Lansing, mid-Michigan and around the state.
