Which School did you think was in the worst shape? If you also know any updates please let me know down below and I'll try and heart the comment! Also at the end the "14 years" comes from the last news report being from 2014 and staff in the report saying the fire alarms haven't worked for 4+ years even before that.
As a senior student of Pine Hill, I can say with confidence that none of that money ever made it near our smoke detectors of any forms of basic necessities such as school showers, water fountains, and still have yet to have a proper working bell.
Is there a way to raise money for these things for y’all and keep it out of the hands of the school board and idk maybe give it to someone in the community who is trustworthy and could actually facilitate these things being fixed? Or find a contractor who will actually finish that big red building so y’all can move to a less dangerous place to learn and live? This might have to be a gofundme thing because people straight up don’t care and that is not fair to you and your classmates.
If there’s a fire just throw your body out a glass window if there are still dead bolt locks on the door you will still have a chance to survive a bunch of cuts on your body then if you just got unfulfilled by flames
I can imagine a giant clump of mold sitting in the audience wearing a fake mustache. "I for one think we should leave the mold alone, it's perfectly safe."
This reminds me of the bug report in Sims 3 "if a meteor strikes a building, everyone will automatically evacuate, unless it is a school, in which they cannot leave, and will always die."
The floors popping up in these schools like monsters burrowed under them happened because of trees planted wayyy to close to the building. Tree roots are insanely strong and can burrow right through concrete and wood flooring. People don't realize this when they plant new trees within 10-15 feet of a building or a pathway. It WILL destroy whatever it's near in time.
Hardwood flooring pops up like that when a leak or high humidity causes the hardwood to expand, its common in poorly maintained buildings with hardwood or laminate floors.
Pine Hill is an interesting problem because the state (New Mexico) has no authority to look into/regulate the school for corruption or safety issues. The school sits on and is owned by the Navajo Reservation, and answers only to the Department of the Interior. There's a history that spans over a century of the federal government paying very little attention to reservation needs and problems. Until the Dept. of the Interior / Bureau of Indian Affairs / Navajo Government sees it necessary to investigate and weed out corruption, nothing will change.
Even then the bureau of Indian affairs and the department of the interior have very little say over reservations and what they do. I know there are cases in California where some tribes have straight up expelled over a third of their members, usually on the grounds that an ancestor of theirs from like 100 years ago was adopted, and therefore not a true part of the tribe, and even when the tribe and the family exhume the bodies for DNA testing, and the testing proves that the family member is a part of the tribe, the tribal council and elders still expel them. There is a ton of rampant corruption that simply cannot be addressed because the tribal legal system is divorced from the state and federal courts. It is also important to understand that a lot of tribes don't have democratically elected council members, and in many cases there are financial incentives towards keeping the number of people in a tribe low.
The concept of this school trying so hard to skirt around the mold issue is fascination to me. Why do so many public establishments ignore the issues of mold so hard? I work at a FOOD company that as this very issue too, with 4 different species of mold have been identified in my workplace. The worst being black mold which is dangerous to our health. Its just so bizarre that almost all of these public places/companies just stopped caring about basic sanitation and maintenance. Idk how, in the case of my job, the FDA hasn't shut us down. Didn't they use to issue citations to schools back in the day for things like this?
What I find incredibly funny is that in the effort it took to organize an event q&a like that, it would have taken just as much to solve the issue. Instead they seem obstinate about actually fixing it.
It sounds like an issue with the school board and superintendent. All of these issues should have been handled by the maintenance department and brought up in district meetings rather than hounding the one school. One of the schools I was at had no AC, was not wheelchair accessible, and brown water coming from the pipes when you would turn on a sink that would flood the underground lunchroom. It was like a poo waterfall. The bathrooms were always closed and students had to use the one employee bathroom in the building. This was a title one school in a poor neighborhood. The good news is they recently leveled that school and are now building a new one.
As a local Detroit boy, can confirm that COVID money really helped the city get on the come up. As a fire alarm technician, that third school made me want to cry
During my wife's first year as a teacher she was training at a middle school that ended up being shut down. The termite and bat infestations were nuts. One of the teachers my wife was shadowing realized that detention wasn't affective for punishment and started having the trouble makers stand next to the termite mound in the room instead until they stopped acting up. We were very happy when my wife got a job at a different school the next year.
I can see how a termite problem can happen since they are small and live inside of walls and stuff. How does a bat infestation work? I suppose they can sleep in somewhat confined spaces but still they should be pretty easy track down and to catch and release them.
Timmy that's the last straw! Now wear this wooden cap, and go into the termite corner! Jokes aside, I'm sure that would be a pretty effective punishment, for me at least...
I live in Detroit and I can confirm schools all over have been in similar crap conditions for decades now. That being said it is slowly improving from what I've heard and seen but progress is still slow
My parents specifically drove me 30 extra minutes to school just so I didn't have to go to Detroit schools as a kid. I'm glad it seems to be improving at least.
@@linedterror2 yea I don’t blame them one bit lol. I later went to private school during high school which was at least an improvement but yea Detroit public schools have always been a crap shoot. But lately there have been some upgrades and better care taking.
Even, I, someone who lived next to gang violence all my life, had a better school experience which kinda makes me regret not taking full advantage of the tools and tech we had. I did get a certificate for Automotive so I did do more than the average Joe- I just wish I did more. I’m glad I did gain a lot skills though!
Where are the parents saying we want every fire alarm fixed by Monday? And also, as a volunteer firefighter myself, seeing that abandoned “active” station broke my heart.
I was an 11 year old kid when I started watching your videos, I'm now an 18 year old still watching your videos. Its amazing to see that classic style Chadtronic videos i grew up on are back. I've been watching for 7 years and I hope to continue watching for many more. Thank You for your fantastic content!
About the same for me! I was about 12-13 when I first watched his old videos, it's so nostalgic to watch the same style of videos of his to this day with me being 21 years now ^^
Man that moldy school would have been a sanctuary compared to my high school. There was mold EVERYWHERE, nasty ceiling tiles with water stains / mold in every class, and it was so outdated and just all around disgusting. All the money the school ever made was given to the sports department and they regularly got new equipment, a brand new track and field, and various other improvements while the rest of the school suffered. Tuttle, Oklahoma is a disgrace when it comes to schools. Well..honestly when it comes to everything, glad I moved.
@@11epicnoob they'd probably get fired if they reported it tbh, the whole school system and town are corrupt. This was also 10 years ago so maybe things have gotten better? I can only hope.
@@SHADOSTRYKR that's funny but also very disappointing to hear, I assume a lot of schools are unfortunately like this. They even cut out art for a year because we "lacked the funding" yet the football team was given new equipment and uniforms the same year. 💀
Yeah my middle school looked much worse than the first school did. Stains on the ceiling were pretty common, lots of missing ceiling tiles, biweekly flooding in the school bathrooms, etc.
That last school said it received funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. I'm going to take a wild guess that that means the school is on reservation land, and meant to be a school for native peoples. If I am right, then that $500,000 was probably the only real money they had seen in years. Reservations are criminally ignored by the U.S. government, and receive very little help in the way of funding things.
Was waiting to see someone point this out. I feel like there might also be some misuse of funds considering where the money they /did/ get went to and the school board not saying where the money went, but that's probably more the fault of a few people on the top
also if you look inside the unfinished school you can see a black, white, turquoise, and yellow pattern on the floor, these colors are sacred to the Navajo people who live there
Just found the school, and it is on a Navajo reservation in NM. And the full news report reveals that it was in fact due to federal government neglect, not anyone directly involved with the school. The clips shown are pretty misleading here.
And the missing money most likely went to the kids that came there with nothing, or got sick, or injured, and feeding them. This is a boarding school on a Navajo reservation. We're talking about people that have been neglected, people that still deal with severe racism/prejudice as soon as they step off of the reservations. That "over $500,000", if it even actually ever got to them, almost definitely went to making sure the kids there were taken care of.
Been missing this content! Not to ever say Cursed Commercials is bad. There has definitely been some funny or weird commercials which is questionable they even made it anywhere. This is why we got Chadtronic to cover all of this, but most of all, I miss the exposure of morons and awareness of stuff that nobody should be mad about.
My old Canadian high school was in such bad shape, in terms of stuff dripping from the ceiling, and no A/C which made summers horrible, it had to be torn down to be replaced. How none of these schools got torn down as a result of stuff like "no working fire alarm" and lots of mould is just surreal. If they did get torn down, why would you wait so long?
We had no AC either, stained ceilings, who knows what else. One day in biology the girl by the window watched the floor below the teacher's lounge collapse. That was pretty funny.
This stuff is common even in middle-class neighborhoods. My school had issues like this when I was a kid before a crazy push happened to rebuild every school in the district around 2003 or 2004. I also live in Michigan, where the school in the video is also located. It looks like a poorer neighborhood. Extremely unfortunate
To eradicate all mold you'd either nuke the building or have the whole school in a vacuum. I understand an active black mold situation needs dealt with but to expect them to guarantee zero mold is very misguided.
Couple of years ago I unfortunately had to stay in a room infested with black mold and it caused super severe psychological issues for me, I didn't even know mold could have that effect on someone. It was this constant feeling that the world around me was fake, like I could reach out and peel back the fabric of reality and reveal nothing but flesh coating everything around me. It was like being in a nightmare 24/7. Mold is scary.
@@FirepowerIGuessI am! I was enduring some other issues at the time too but once I was out of that place my issues cleared up pretty immediately and I haven't had an experience like it since.
It's almost like schools in the US don't get any funding unless they're located in rich neighorhoods(spoiler alert: they're funded by property taxes in the surrounding neighborhoods, so that's exactly what happens). Though that's *zero* excuse for the last schools and their disconnected/MISSING fire alarms, shew.
Why do you assume ONLY the last school is guilty of receiving over a BILLION in funding and just saying "nah"? This is an incredibly common occurrence when you blindly throw more tax dollars at bad schools. How does a lack of funding excuse the first school, which was basically dodging a very serious issue, reluctant to tell parents about it, outright lying about replacing the affected ceiling panels, scrubbing off a projectioj screen that seems to not be used at all instead of just throwing it out, and acting like it would take an act of congress to just remove tennis balls from the bottom of chairs? We live in an age where one can easily begin a GoFundMe for something as silly as a personal vacation and recieve millions in donations, yet we rely on involuntary tax dollars and government allocation of those tax dollars to the education of our own children. Tl;dr School choice, school choice, school choice.
Best way to fix it would be to have higher levels of government such as the states or feds create a big, big pool of tax revenues (preferably land value rather than property tax), and then spread it around based on need. And then hire a boatload of building inspectors and accountants to make sure no school districts are abusing the money or profiting off our education system. As for that last school, there needs to be way, way more funding for capital projects at the BIA
@@drawingdragonwhat is wrong with you have you ever thought about doing anything you just described and why would doing a gofundme help if the parents of the school also don’t have money to give the school
I remember seeing a news report special on Pine Hill Schools back in 2014 (Lived in NM for a good chunk of my life). I was still in elementary school and even I felt outraged about the schools’ condition. Nothing has changed from what I heard.
Yes I've lived in NM most of my life and a lot of schools rely on government grants more than anything, so hearing that funding is being misappropriated pisses me off. We are near the bottom when it comes to public education, so the children of Navajo nation deserve quality institutions just as anyone does.
The questions to ask are: 1. Where was the money that was budgeted for routine maintenance diverted to? 2. Who got "paid-off" to ignore the problems? 3. What relatives of school board members received the maintenance contracts, but did not deliver?
Not gonna lie, I did not expect to hear about the former school district I went too in the first clip. The only thing I can say is that the school system in the county has a LONG and RECENT history of disregarding the scools...plus it's one of the richest school districts IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY!!
Schools in the US are such a joke. People pretend to care about the kids, but stuff like this just exposes the lies. The city I grew up in literally had 14 million dollars missing from the school's budget this year. The superintendent calmed there's no missing money and then basically ran away and is now on "medical leave".
Strawberry Mansion High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was once considered one of the most dangerous high schools in Pennsylvania. The last time that I heard about the school was that it added metal detectors and required students to wear uniforms.
my middle school had a large theater that had been closed down since the 60's because of asbestos being found in it. me and my friends once snuck into it on a weekend and it was completely falling apart inside and filled with tons of old school stuff from the 60's.
The fact that they haven’t taken measures to take out the theater + asbestos, and that they just let it lay there is a health code violation, and possibly even a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Couldn’t they have just never touched the asbestos? Leaving it to deteriorate seems more dangerous than just maintaining it and making sure the areas with asbestos never fall apart. It’s even possible to make renovations by going over the asbestos rather than trying to remove it.
I did visit the Detroit area about a week ago and can proudly say that it DEFINITELY has come a long way since I visited there around 2009. Now as for the Pine Hill situation, sounds like a money laundering scheme that has operated for unfortunately 10+ years! Everyone in that facility must be on SOME type of “pocketing job” to keep quiet by the main guy/girl head of “operations”. How this hasn’t been reported to someone higher is astounding.
This is nothing compared to my school. When it snowed in the area multiple classrooms collapsed from the weight of it, several trees fell on class rooms and walkways, other students would often vandalize things around school leaving broken glass and jagged metal all over, there was only one working bathroom for guys, many students got arrested some for bringing guns and one time a student literally kidnapped a younger student there, students would show up to school drunk, there were a ton of abandoned buildings on campus, roof access was extremely easy and always unlocked, rats and cockroaches were everywhere and finally at least a quarter of the school had gang affiliations. It also didn't help that there were over a thousand of us and very few teachers. The school was pure mayhem and administrative staff broke the law SO MANY TIMES. And that's just stuff I physically saw with my eyes... Still somehow had quite a few extremely smart people there and one of the got either 1st or 2nd highest SAT score in the state and was able to skip 4 years of college. Edit: I also forgot to mention that almost constantly for two years people would just pull the fire alarms almost daily and sometimes many pullings in one day. It became so bad that the principal made a rule where when it goes off you have to wait for him to tell you to evacuate over the loud speakers which didn't even work in every room.
The principal and facilities worker for Pine Hill clearly thought they would look sympathetic but when nothing had been fixed for 4 years you lose any excuse
Yay! More classic chat videos! I have to agree with the majority of my fellow chapstick warriors, misfortunate friends, ladies, and fricks, and say that as much as I love Cursed Commercials, it was taking over the channel and we just need more of these old school Chad videos. Maybe we’ll get super lucky and he’ll talk about old toys, maybe even Pokémon again. Edit: I know 28 likes it isn’t a whole lot but this is the most likes I’ve gotten for any RU-vid comment I’ve ever posted. Thanks y’all.
Pretty much anything Chad is in is great but I kind of agree. I was also thinking recently about how I would love to see some more stuff of him with others. As much as I like him as a solo act I personally think he is at his best with other youtubers like the videos he has done with Brutalmoose or PBG.
"It's like someone wants these kids to die" "-Beareau of Indian Affairs" Oh. Chad given the history of schools for native americans in the US, you uh. You Might Not Be Too Far Off On That One.
The fire alarms looked like they were flat-out sabotaged EDIT: Over HALF A MILLION and STILL not fixed!? That school board needs a serious investigation, this has to be embezzling or something!
The way that ceiling tile looked reminds me of a retail job where the roof regularly leaked (to the point of the tiles collapsing into the aisles one year) Pretty sure the mold isnt going away until that gets fixed.
Every time it rained too hard we had to look for those stains and toss a bin under them to catch the water. Turned out later it was caused by the ventilation system not being sealed properly at the roof
My high school was torn down a couple years after I left. It took years to finish because part of the building was so full of asbestos it was determined to be too dangerous to demolish.
5:07 I can feel what this lady is going through. Not having their question answered. Two of my friends litterally do not put any time or effort into answering any of my questions until I repeat myself. Also, SHOW US THE MOLD!
Wht is going on with the embezzlement there? The teachers must be getting paid off or something because the teacher who had been there for 4 years seemed almost happy about the problems existing there. Like he talked about the unfinished school, and the fire alarms like they were his favorite cat.
4:25 Schools actually put tennis balls from preventing the chairs from scraping and damaging the tile, which may or may not have Asbestos in it depending on when the school was constructed. They don’t want particles of asbestos to scrape off the floor.
11:30 taking bets that the money disappeared. That's the thing about public schools, they receive millions of dollars, but there's no oversight on how it gets spent, it's always abused whether it's inner city or middle of nowhere.
The reason why they don’t wanna get ride of the ceiling tiles with mold is because their cheap, I remember my grandfather bought around 50 on them for a restaurant and it roughly cost around 200$, they have the money to pay for the repairs, they just don’t wanna
It’s insane to me that these parents are going off about tennis balls and a little bit of mold. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be upset at the cleanliness of their kids school, but I went to middle school in the exact same building that my mom and grandparents did and the building had no updates or renovations in that time. When it rained certain classrooms would become flooded. There were a few hallways that had to be taped off because mold had overtaken them and they were crumbling. I don’t know if meetings were ever held about it or not but it didn’t seem like anyone was doing anything to fix it. 🥴 And before anyone comes for me, this was an extremely poor small rural area.
That sucks. Our elementary was newer, as in built in the 70's lol. The high school however? So old. Thankfully they did get some funding, not enough overall, but enough that they could fix the teacher's lounge when it collapsed.
15:29 the moment I saw the B.I.A. Logo roll down, I was like Moss, from I.T. Crowd, looking at the fire extinguisher with the "Made in Britain" Logo. Ahhhhhh. The "Joke" here is that they don't give the B.I.A. Funds much, if any funds for things. Waiting lists can be long for natives to do things. We make a meme of the commodity cheese for a reason, cause that stuff cheap as it was, was still legendary. Point is, My joke is, What budget, the federal offices don't give us any! XD
Is this a Native school? I'm feeling that rage bubble up a little, and that disappointment of... Of course, yet again. This is starting to hit too close to home, to those times in the before.
This isn't that hard of a fix if our government would stop giving money to other countries we can use all that to repair so many rundown cities and schools and other things that are been derelict four years or even decades. That means that the money they're using to send to Ukraine could be use to fix problems like this and things that are much worse.
My old elementary school had asbestos covered pipes that they kept wrapped in duct tape and painted with wall paint. Schools in america have been bad for a long time.
I remember my highschool was a really old building and sooo full of mold. It was so full of mold, my ent found a bunch of mold growing and thriving in my sinus cavities. I'm allergic to mold.
Oh .. so the stains on the ceiling is mold? *Has flashbacks to her school years* And the last school is just a disaster waiting to happen. Like everything thing has gone wrong and i hope it gets fixed ASAP.
The tennis balls are because the schools dont want to invest in felted feet for the chairs. Its not only for the screech of chairs but enough damage to the wax on the tile could expose the tile itself to damage. Some of these buildings still have asbestos in the floors and damage to the tile could release it into the air.
My school had a mold issue and was actively doing construction while we were there. Yet they denied up and down there was mold. 10 years later the schools wiki mentions the mold problem that supposedly wasnt there.
Yeah, we tended to have construction done while we were at school as well. I don't think it was ever for mould, rather just that the oldass building needed renovating to stay together.
Teacher here. I feel like the district is waiting for the ceiling to fall in our second floor boys and girls bathroom. The ceiling and walls have mold on them so bad that our students can’t use them. The ceiling leaks all the time even when it doesn’t rain. We also have to keep trash cans on the floor to catch the water because otherwise the drains in the bathroom floor actually leak into the bathroom ceilings on the first floor.
Oh man, my district's been there, buddy. They had to delay the first day for all schools for a week in 2021 (this was around the time I graduated from high school though) cause health inspectors found mold in one of the elementary school classrooms. And our district is pretty well-funded for the most part but unfortunately they fall into the same negligence traps a lot too lol
My old elementary school had so many of those roof tiles with the coffee lookin stains just like the school with the "mold" had, and nothing was said about it for all the 6 years I was there 😭
Same, those stains were all over the celling tiles at my school. All the lights also had hundreds of dead flies in them and one part of the school had a massive ant problem. I remember having to constantly brush ants off my paper and books as they would be crawling all over everything.
The floor bulging like that btw is a sign of burst pipes so like not only would they need to replace the floors they'd need to redo entire sections of plumbing, which is super expensive, and is likely part of why it got so bad. Didn't have the money to replace the plumbing when it started and it just got worse
Every time I see one of these videos, it makes me both feel bad but also feel grateful for the fact that my school building was, I kid you not, 50% castle brick and the rest of it was a mix of brick and other somewhat strong material
I lowkey want to visit that last place that was featured because it doesnt seem real. Like they dont give a frick about anything there, it may be a fantasy paradise. Or a dystopian society. Either way it would be interesting.
No lie…My school was too cheap to hand back trip money for the Senior Trip until police got involved…over $2000 worth of going to Florida in the pockets of a board that are money hoggers.
A fire department with no firefighters, one broken truck, and brand new turnout gear sitting in the corner. Man, I wish that were a rare issue, but it’s becoming more common these days.
In my high school we have ceiling tiles but they were the old ceiling tiles that are square and they used to glue up on the ceiling. And the tiles were there since the school opened back in the 1950s. Because of that the tiles would fall down from age and they were everywhere. One tile almost fell on my head. If you went to the classrooms you could even see some empty spots with gule residue where they once lived. But the funny thing is that, no one complained. They don't even replace the falling tiles. There's just rooms with empty gaps and gule residue. I guess everyone was just used to having tiles fall on there heads. lol But hey at least they were not moldy.
I’m infuriated. Someone is just stealing money. I’d want an investigation in these schools before they receive more money then hire someone competent to green light construction and cleanup.
Honestly i didn't know that when those ceiling tiles look like that, it's mold. I always knew it was from rain but it never clicked that they probably all are moldy.
i went to a private school system that marketed itself as prestigious but even then they couldn’t bother to update or fix anything. we had no ac, one of our water heaters nearly exploded, paint was peeling off the walls, and we had many stains on the ceiling tiles. the performing arts center was clearly lacking, the room i had choir in was really hard to access and had a heater that nobody dared to touch because you could either break it or turn it permanently on, the windows and ceiling leaked, and there was a bug problem in the warmer months. one of my classrooms smelled so moldy that it would give me a headache. doesn’t even matter if you receive proper funding if your system is corrupt unfortunately. (also i was just looking through old photos and found a pic my friend sent me of a door handle to one of the buildings that just fell completely off when he tried to use it, we laughed so hard at it)
I’m honestly not surprised to see the BIA running that death trap. Also, dorms? *sweats in Indigenous generational trauma* As an indigenous person, I would NEVER want to send my child to a boarding school ran and funded by the federal government. However, these parents probably didn’t have much choice for a number of reasons.
The fire alarm being disconnected in case of a fire isn't the only issue. If the fire alarm doesn't work, then they would have had years without a fire drill. Where kids don't learn what to do during a fire, or how to stay calm.
Chad: "Won't SOMEBODY think of the children!?" :) I appreciate you using your platform for something socially positive that could be an impetus for change. And pretty good jokes considering how easily that could have come across as insensitive... I kinda outgrew react videos but I'd watch more things like this!
In case it wasn't obvious the second school with the large lumps in the wood floors is just water damage, I know this because at my high school the auditorium stage had the exact same problem where it essentially looked like a skate park
i remember no one ever used the showers at the gym bc we would always have it at the end of the day so once me and my friends wanted to turn it on to see what would happen and after sputtering it trickled out a bunch of black goo then stopped. gotta love public education.