dc_gurl's Blog

I am a student at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School. Today, Monday May 12, 2008. We had a power outage and we still had to attend school. The faculty is already aware of what happend when it rains at our school. The roof is leaking and parts of our ceiling was on the ground. We had no lights for three entire class periods and that is unacceptable. For lunch we were having cereal and thats not something that will maintain us for an entire day. We had no heat and all students walked around with coats all day. The Mayor was the one who made the decision to keep us in school all day. That was an irresponsible choice because the school had no emergency plan for this. No electricity meant that class did not go as planned and teachers could not teach properly because of all of the inconvenience. Children are supposed to come first. So why don't we have a safe environment to learn in? This is a problem that should not be ignored and should be fixed as soon as possible.