Bowing desks, slow computer startups, jammed lockers, and cramped classrooms, hurt the educational environment for the high school according to the upcoming freshman class.

“Technology plays a big role in our learning,” said eighth grader Michelle Zemke. “More of the state is going to online testing rather than paper and pencil, like this year for M-Step. If the computers were quick then the testing would go a lot smoother.”

Science labs are a growing concern for the younger classes.

“In science we only have tables and chairs, and at the old middle school we had lab tables with our materials nearby,” said Trevisan.

The bond will add advantages to the science program, thinks Zemke.

“It will benefit us because even from last year our materials were from a while ago. The science department doesn’t get updated much, and if we update it not the upcoming class would get to have new experiences with it that we didn’t.”

The previous bond wasn’t successful because the lack of understanding and communication of what the bond was about. A survey on the #BondYouthVote reached 21 percent of the high school students. It showed that 80 percent of respondents agreed that there wasn’t enough information provided about the bond proposal the last time it was presented to the voters.

The focus on the previous bond was very skewed last year, according to senior Chloe Hypes.

“The school was very unprepared on how they presented it and they were unprepared in that they were going to use the money incorrectly,” said Hypes.

“I think that they focused too much on redoing the gym and the bleachers because yes, students would like that, but I think students and parents would like to see a bigger change in technology and infrastructure in the school, and the bond just wasn’t articulated to be that way. I think that’s why it didn’t pass because either people didn’t know about it or they thought that a new gym was being built. More parents would have voted for it if the people presenting the bond were more specific about the way the funds would be used to improve our school.”