Broken down bathrooms, loss of power and refrigeration are just a few of the serious problems plaguing Franklin High School in Seattle.It’s so bad that a staff
Broken down bathrooms, loss of power, and refrigeration are just a few of the serious problems plaguing Franklin High School in Seattle.
“Can you imagine the chaos that there’s been? The boys’ bathrooms on two floors do not exist,” Franklin HS staff member James "Whitney" Parker asked during Wednesday night’s school board meeting. Two weeks after that comment, Parker again stood before the board and superintendent and said, “It’s horrendous it’s causing huge amounts of problems in the school. Please get that fixed.”
“There was no heat, no Internet, no working elevator for our wheelchair users, and no cafeteria or nurse refrigerator that had power. When our principal reached out to SPS about closing the school he was denied. How is that not enough to close the school? It wasn’t until there was a literal fire on the third floor - that’s when it was canceled,” said Parker.
“It is a drawback not having, you know coming to an old building like this and you know, it’s dim, dark,” said Dennard. KOMO News talked with students outside the school after dismissal who rolled their eyes and agreed that the bathrooms are a mess.
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