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Longtime teacher urges Ferguson-Florissant to ditch Styrofoam and expand sustainability education
Ferguson Florissant School District Board of Education · April 9, 2026
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Ryan Young, a 20-year educator at Ferguson Middle School, urged the board to stop using Styrofoam trays, reduce bus idling, expand sustainability programming and teach reuse to students, offering to help implement programs that would save money and build student responsibility.
Ryan Young, a teacher at Ferguson Middle School who has led a sustainability and outdoor-education class, used his public comment to press the board for districtwide environmental changes.
Young described seeing single-use plastics…
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