Most students take for granted the facilities LZHS offers them everyday. However, “most” students is not all students; some students are denied the equipped facilities that other students are able to enjoy.

Want proof?

If you find yourself in the “B” hallway take a look into rooms like B120, B125, B124. Do they look a little different than the other rooms in the school?

They are.

These, are the rooms the Special Education Department uses to hold their classes for students in the Special Education Program. Although some might think that the rooms would be far more equipped they aren’t.

Students who have a class in those rooms are treated to broken down, graffiti- covered desks and bare walls.

Not to mention the sizes of the rooms are barely half the size of the regular rooms in the school.

“For some of the smaller classes the space is actually good, but with larger classes it can get cramped,” Joanne Biondi, Special Education Teacher said.

“The rooms are so cold; the desks are horrible and old. It’s really plain and there’s nothing to look at,” Chelsea Haworth, sophomore, said.

In the past few years, additions and “redoing” the school has become a normal thing at LZHS, costing the school and district some hefty change. Yet new desks, more space, and a friendlier environment can not be achieved for the Special Education Program?

“[The school] could just put up posters to liven the room and then get new desks or at least desks that every other classroom has,” Haworth said.

While some people may argue that money is too tight right now and the district is doing all they can do, we do not accept the excuse. Money is spent everyday at LZHS and we argue that we can spare some for the Special Education rooms.

“We have kind of been the last to get certain things,” Biondi said, in regards to the desks in the Special Education rooms.

“As a Special Education teacher I just look to make it better; I make it [the rooms] the best I can,” Biondi said.

School is supposed to be about the students and giving them a good learning experience. “Special” or not, students should not have to sit in the Special Education rooms the way they are equipped today.