Hundreds of students walked out of a Rockland County High School Wednesday, voicing their concern about vermin, filling the school’s athletic field and banging on the fence that surrounds it in protest.
Students at Clarkstown North High School claim the “three R’s” have been supplemented with two more: roaches and rats. Some held signs reading, “”Clean North” and “Rams not roaches,” according to the Journal News.
Cases of rat sightings have been widespread of late. According to football player Steven Jean-Baptiste, when he took his shoe out from his locker, three big roaches crawled out.
Another student used a camera phone to snap a picture of a rodent outside the high school door.
The district, located just north of New York City, removed three dead rats, including a decomposing one that was crawling with maggots, at the high school’s annex building, officials said.
Wednesday, hundreds of kids cut class to protest the grotesque conditions.
EWWWW. Time to send in cats, snakes, terriers, guns, traps, flamethrowers and maybe a few sticks of dynamite.
Now that is a cause worthy of protest.