In the past month, my school has had three bomb threats. One of the threats was in the form of a note reading “bomb @ 2, kill all niggers”. We have also had a threat of a shooting. And I’m sick of it. Look, assholes, you’re adults. Grow the fuck up. Racism and terroristic threats are not funny. But you just don’t get it, do you?
Of course not. This is the same group that celebrates the end of the year with stinkbombs, arson, smokebombs, and vandalism. Not just vandalizing the school, but spray-painting their year of graduation on street signs, roads, and buildings. Whoa, you graduated. Way to go. I’m sure you’re very excited. But there are better ways to express your excitement than vandalism.
Maybe if the kids had more pride in their school, there wouldn’t be as many of these problems. But it’s hard to be proud of this shithole. Last year, a student in my civics class had a bloody nose in March. A pool of blood, in all its crusty glory, was never cleaned. It was still there on the last day of school in June. The ceilings are water damaged. There are burn marks on the walls from posters destroyed by fire. The bathrooms reek of pot, smoke detectors are burnt, mirrors disappear, tiles are cracked, and the walls are vandalized. This is my third year at this school, and peeling paint on the walls remains, even after an entire new addition to the school was built. Most permanent surfaces are covered in a disgusting grime, never to be removed by our sorry two person custodial staff. I could go on, but I’m sure you get the point. My school building sucks.
Then there’s the rampant homophobia. There was a recent editorial in the school paper from an openly gay student talking about former students who told him that they were so afraid of being physically assaulted that they feared people even thinking they were gay. Attempting to insult someone by calling them gay or a fag is a common occurance. I hear students talking about how they would kill someone they know is a gay. One student said that if he were president, he would have all gays killed. One of my friends, who is straight, is currently being verbally assaulted on a daily basis by those who believe he is gay.
I’m sick of intolerant assholes assaulting people for being gay. I’m sick of bomb threats. I’m sick of the crappy condition of our building, the vandalism, the arson, all of it. It’s disgusting.
