This is my old high school. Back then, it looked essentially the same, except the sports team was the Trojans, which, when you’re 17, is just about as funny as it gets. So now it’s not the Mount Baker Trojans, it’s the Mount Baker Wild, but that’s about all that’s changed. Apparently the mercury spill they found the last year I attended is still not cleaned up. Apparently the asbestos is still present. It looks like the roof has got worse, but not by much.
High school, if memory serves, sucked. It sucked in a huge way. It sucked because I was a drama kid, and lots of my friends were gay or played D&D and we all got beat up a lot. It sucked because the school was too small and we were too big. It sucked because the jocks got to be absent from class for tournaments but the drama kids, who did Stagecraft till late were never excused. It sucked because it was riddled with unfairness and arbitrary rules, and the good teachers couldn’t make up for the bad teachers, even though they tried.
High school sucks enough, without, you known, adding asbestos and mercury and too little space or insulation, and a roof that might collapse on the students in winter. It’s crappy enough to be there when you don’t want to, when you don’t fit in, when you know you’re going to get it from the teacher, or the bully or whoever. High school sucks enough without any outside help at all.
So, federal and BC government, could we please shovel some of the money that’s going to the god damned Olympics to fund a school that’s literally collapsing?
Could we reallocate some money to, you know, clean up the mercury spill that’s been there at least from my day? I remember it being an issue ten years ago.
Could we please give the students at MBSS a god damned fighting chance?
That would be great. Thanks.
