"I have been to schools where the ceiling plaster's falling down, where corridors are barred off, where the windows are broken, where children are going to class in hallways and closets," she said.
I'm sure there are students at the school who are members of gangs, as most schools on the island (and elsewhere) have such students, but that is a non-issue in the classes and hallways at Whitman.
Classes and hallways can be extremely crowded.
The YPAS building did not contain extensive classroom space, however, and for many years teachers conducted YPAS classes in hallways and on loading docks if other space wasn't available.
Claire Gossett's teacher hurried the class into the hallway, then into a bathroom as a tornado that was more than a mile wide drew closer.
When the senior class won the hallway decorating contest at homecoming every year, Dana Jones and her friends began to suspect it was rigged.
To alleviate a student's headaches, for example, schedule rests in the school nurse's office; for dizziness, allow extra time to get to class through crowded hallways; for light sensitivity, permit sunglasses to be worn indoors.
And by that I mean, in the parking lot, not in the doorway to spin class or the hallways where crowds are trying to get around you.
Compliment your crush after class, through the hallways, or before you leave school.
In a recent art class, students filled the hallway just outside the chemistry lab drawing life-sized body schematics on long rolls of blue paper.
