The Board of Education says we don't have the money to build more schools and hire more teachers. You cannot expect us to learn about all the great things that formed this country and cherish them if we have to fight with the person in the desk next to us over whose elbow hit whose first, instead of paying attention. I have yet to see any of it. School administrators have quickly realized the extra gym can make a perfect cafeteria while the original one is being demolished. Portable buildings have become the typical classroom and roads have become mud and dirt, but I'm getting used to it.
Renovation is a wonderful thing.
My school is slowly being torn down and rebuilt, section by section. Dodging scaffolding in the hallways, relocating, less parking, and all the dirt and noise that come along with a project like this is annoying. Students have to squeeze into narrow hallways, look for somewhere new to eat lunch and find their classrooms have disappeared. Because of the construction students won't be able to take summer school and will have to go out of their way to other campuses to earn that extra credit. Teachers also have to deal with this.