Letters To The Editor

Thu., April 27, 2000

Flooding, fires just part of attending Mead H.S.

For years teenagers have sat around the dinner table listening as their parents tell stories that always began “When I was your age … .”

Well, I can safely say that anyone attending Mead High School will have a story that beats all the classics.

For example: In the past two months at Mead, we’ve had two fires and in the past week at Mead we’ve brought in sandbags to block flooding (I’m not kidding), and closed down two of the new bathrooms due to ceiling flooding and sewage backup.

Mead used to be the best place to be if you had to be at school. Yet, for some reason I seem to dread going to school.

On April 14, the gymnasium and field house were guarded by a thick haze as if to warn of impending doom. Around noon, news crews started drifting through our torn-down building. I thought it was to peer at our remodel progress, maybe our makeshift bridge outside the weight room, but the truth filtered into my fourth-hour class that the ceiling in one of the P.E. offices had collapsed.

I don’t know if anyone outside of Mead High School can relate to this wild tale, but I assure you, all of it is part of our daily grind. Kelli A. Finnestad Mead student

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