Cue the Circus Music...

Eight times in the past two weeks we have had to evacuate the building. Three times because students pulled the fire alarm, twice because teachers burned food in the microwave, once because a student put their hair brush on a hot plate in the science lab, and twice because students set fire to bathroom trash cans. Our evacuation today will certainly have us on the news again for how poor it was. We had students fighting, rallying, and running away from school once we stepped outside. This is due in part to the extreme cold and that it was difficult to identify students in their winter gear, but it is also because our school does not have a fire drill plan! We know that we're supposed to leave the school ''in an expeditious manner'', but once outside it's a free-for-all...