The Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) for Reed Elementary School in the Ladue, Missouri School District (near St. Louis, Missouri), after careful research, has decided not to fund any synthetic playing surfaces now or ever. Listen to Brooke Meek, president of the Reed School Association, testify before her neighboring Clayton School District Board of Education about safe children's playing surfaces.
"Given all the information regarding synthetic surfaces, there was only one obvious choice. Reed Elementary unanimously said No to the installation of any synthetic surface this year or any subsequent year in the future."