"We estimate that the biggest problems are found in the outskirts of the city where there are about 9,000 damaged houses (to be confirmed) besides 300 collapsed classrooms in 90 schools so far.
For another critique of I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, see contemporary poet Divya Victor's Goodbye John!, a text-based piece with an accompanying short essay that argues that by collapsing the classroom and gallery space into one another, Baldessari not only enacts authoritarian teaching methods, but commands students create his art to his material benefit.
And the school: the floor of the classroom collapsed under the girls.
The classroom collapsed in confusion, he said in an interview, as students tried to figure out the gunman's location.
An article on Nov. 30 about the death of a 6-year-old girl who collapsed in her classroom on the Lower East Side used an outdated name for the hospital where she was taken.
One of the school wards, Sanoussi Noula, 12 years, was sad to see his classroom collapsed and no longer there.
"We were having our music class when the earthquake hit," said Yuan Jin, 10. "Our classroom collapsed just within 10 seconds.
By the government's estimates, 7,000 classrooms collapsed in the tremor.
According to some estimates, as many as 7,000 classrooms collapsed and up to 10,000 students may have died.
The government has said that about 7,000 classrooms collapsed during the quake, and that an estimated 10,000 of the nearly 70,000 dead were schoolchildren.
