Steve VanHouten is 24,
Rashid Cunningham is 18,
Elmer Valdes is 18,
Erline Valdes is 18,
Sierra Spencer is 14,
Tyisha Masters is 14,
Keva Michels is 12, and
Christina Wise is 12.
See previous school sessions HERE.
The high school added a new gym a few months ago, however this was only the tip of the iceberg of all the renovations that were planned for CPS. Workers came in to paint and renovate several classrooms due to the latest budget increase from the Board of Education (BoE). There are new students registered that are going to need the extra desks and chairs.
The crew started working in the early morning hours on the weekend. The trusty janitor, Frank Mulner, pulled up in his light blue hatchback, just before sunrise, to unlock the doors.
As you can see, several desks and chairs were added to the main classroom. There's also a new computer room and garden storage area (located behind the cafeteria). The next set of renovations will possibly be to add a second-level auditorium. It's not been approved, yet. We'll see if the BoE deems an auditorium necessary.
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The last sessions of school, before senior graduation and summer break, are always kind of informal and relaxed. The kids get half-days due to teacher in-service meetings. So, when notice was sent out to each family that year-end class pictures were due, everyone was happy that classroom time would be interrupted and the day would end earlier than usual.
No one had even thought about Erline Valdes. She was a senior, so why wouldn't she come and take pictures with the rest of her classmates?
She had missed so much of the schoolyear because of her pregnancy...she had basically become 'out of thought/out of mind' to a lot of her so-called friends and fellow classmates.
