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Students present ACMS maintenance needs to School Board Students have developed a compelling slide presentation and are showing it at opportunities where leaders may be able to help improve Adair County Middle School (old high school building). By Linda Waggener The 2019-2020 Adair County Middle School newspaper and yearbook staff wrote articles and took photos of their school maintenance challenges which were combined into a slide show. Many of the 27 staffers attended and presented the slide show at the January School Board meeting. Their message included these notes, "We really love our school! We really want it to look nice. We have a big thing about pride at ACMS, and we want that pride in our school building to. Thank you for listening." "We asked for comments from students and adults these were the first things we found out: we have issues with our heating and air system, there are tiles missing in the bathrooms, our sinks in the bathrooms are old and fall off the walls, the band room is falling apart, the floor by the freezer in the cafeteria is damaged from leaks, windows rattle - in the hot temps it lets in the heat and vice versa in winter, discoloration and holes in ceilings, walls, outlets, lockers, desks are old and need replacing, broken faucets in bathrooms, ants around windows, mold on floors, water fountains need repair and there are holes in carpet. Photos were presented throughout their slideshow to demonstrate each of the concerns. The building which houses the Adair County Middle School is the original Adair County high school. The building will probably be replaced in the future, however, at this time the students just aim to present the news of what is happening right now with their facility. Lockers at the school clearly need to be replaced. Students don't like to put their items in dirty lockers, many of them with missing handles. They presented that almost every locker is marked up, and said they tried to clean them off but there's nothing they've found to take the graffiti off. The students said some of the graffiti is from students who have been out of high school for many years. They pointed out that janitors do all they can, and students help, but the lockers have simply lived a good long life and they are now in dire need of replacement. One of their slide photos showed the exposed metal from an old lock which someone could be injured on. The bell system, the students say, is outdated and really needs to be replaced. It often quits working entirely or goes off at wrong times. The interruptions to class sound stressful, if not an interference to studies. The students found that there's a battery issue that only the company which installed it can fix. The classrooms are so small that doing labs for classes like science means they often have to use the hallways and lobby area to do their lab work. This is disruptive to other classes, they said. Front steps are cracking and weakend. There is concern among students that falls can result. This story was posted on 2020-01-17 10:16:23
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