Crushed Classrooms

After the three days of morning was completed yesterday in most of China, with most entertainment venues closed and Newspapers reporting in Black and White and TV only reporting 24 hours a day on the earthquake and fund raising drives. Other problems hidden in the devastation are starting to raise to the top like boiling water in a coffee pot.

Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action.
There have been reports of petitions floating around the devastated areas and people talking about lawsuits.

Senior officials in Beijing have been reported as saying they will take action against those that built the list of at least 175 schools that collapsed.

My take---I believe they will take action. However, the first and most important to the Government is taking care of the sick and injured and finding homes for all the reported "millions of homeless people". And secondly, continue to raise money and supplies and medical support to assist those masses of people in need.

As of today the hospitals and make shift tent hospitals are sending severely injured to our city in Shenzhen. And many cities around the country. 67 injured people landed last night in our city of Shenzhen-- reported by Shenzhen Daily.

In closing, while the media and those that have lost their ONLY child , (I have unconfirmed reports of some Sichuan local township government officials have also lost children in the tragedy) will continue to stir this pot until it is the main issue and a problem that Beijing will have to deal with immediately. Especially with the Olympics coming soon. There have been no reports yet on how many children have been killed.