Last month, Belmont Shore gym Iconix Fitness posted an Instagram video promoting an Earth Day 5K meant to fundraise for the science department at Fremont Elementary. Standing outside the school on Fourth Street, a promoter in white coveralls held an overflowing Coca-Cola liter and asked the viewer to donate. The video directed people to a webpage for the Fremont Save our Schools Endowment Fund.
Yet according to the school, that money may never make it to them.
In an email to parents three days later, Fremont Elementary Principal Chris Lounsbery said, “to our knowledge,” the school has not received “any direct funds” from the endowment in his five-year tenure. He said that the fund is not affiliated with the school, its local PTA or Long Beach Unified’s fundraising wing, the Long Beach Education Foundation…