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The Mercury Spill At Ballou SHS
On October 2nd 2003 about 11:30 a/m. during 4th period there was mercury spill in Ballou Senior High School. I was in JROTC and all of a sudden Ms. Smith a security guard for the school came down stairs to the rec center in the bottom of the school, she told the teachers something in a private conversation then a student ran over and said that someone had planted a bomb in the basement of the school. After a while everyone begin to hear of the false story that was going around. So everyone begin to run out of the school, some students left school grounds, some caught the bus home, some were stopped by the police. The rest of the students were told to go to the football stadium for further instructions. It was cold as we listen to the principal tell us what had happened in the school to cause us to evacuate the building. We were told that someone had stolen some mercury that was stored in an unused honors chemistry lab that was scheduled to be renewed. Doc told us that we were going to be able to return to school the next day. But that night my step mom and I watched TV that evening after school that’s when we found out that there weren’t going to be any school the next day or maybe for the rest of the month. On October 6th we were screened for mercury; and then we assigned to certain buses. Some of us were sent to Hart Middle School and the rest were sent to the Convention Center for classes which led to: shorter school days, long bus rides home and many complaints about textbooks and other supplies some didn’t learn much. We first had classes in the gym, but it begin to interfere with the physical education classes so later in a week period we were then moved downstairs by the cafeteria of Hart Middle School. After the first week students begin to skin school to go to the Convention Center with the older students. We ate horrible lunch; after begin torn of our food chooses we had at Ballou. We had to wait for alon... Please login to view comments from other users.
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