Arlington High School Lacks Handicapped Accessibility
The following was written by Arlington High School students Stefan Geller and Alex Kennedy. It first appeared in the Ponder Report, the high school's student newspaper.
Arlington High School has been educating students since 1915, and has seen two additional buildings built since then. Although the additions have allowed for over a thousand students to attend the schools, they have done little to help students or faculty in wheelchairs maneuver around the building. AHS has only one elevator throughout the entire school, which makes it extremely difficult for handicapped students to travel between floors. Also, the school has a plethora of doors in each hallway that are difficult for students in wheelchairs to open. These limiting factors make it difficult for handicapped students to travel throughout AHS in a timely manner. A study conducted by members of The Ponder Report revealed that it takes a student…
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Tim
7:56 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Why the Stratton ? It's the last school that hasn't been rebuilt . They can ship the children down to the new state of the art Thompson . There is going to be plenty of room there . A developer would jump at the chance to build some nice homes on that property.... more ›