Tuluksak Schools

I'm checking from the talk department. Can you just? Testing 1, 2, 3. Testing 1, 2, 3. OK, Jack, could you just tell me your name, spell your last name, and what your job is here at the school. My name is Jack Kinigak, that's KIN, EGAK. I've been a making facilitator here for 13 years. I started off as a temporary. The reason why I stuck with the position here was the safety concerns I seen. Before I came out there, I was a construction construction. And what I seen out there, the safety concerns was terrible. So, I stuck around as long as I can. Maybe we want to start over. Sorry, that's good.

So, let me just ask you this. What are the main difficulties you have maintaining this old school building? Some of the difficulties we have with this school here is deterioration, shifting. A lot of our foundation is dry rotting. And we've got some sifting going on. We've got windows being cracked, doors jammed in place. It's a day to day process we go in and check what's happened overnight. Some of our paddlings aren't that far down. So, some of us in permafrost. A lot of the piping are original that they put in back in their late 50s. So, a lot of those are probably lead based soldering. And every time we work with the piping, we've got to be careful. Okay. And how would a new school replace the building make your work easier? For one thing, freeze-ups, you know, we have a lot of freeze-ups.

There are a lot of pipes freezing up, sewer lines, water lines. If we had a new school, I think it would be the state of the art building. It would be monitored. All the boilers and the pipes would be monitored by a computer. It would be keeping a closer eye on all equipment through computers. Okay. That's about all I needed. Anything else you'd like to say? Yes. The overcrowding we have here at the high school, it was accommodated for like 70 people. And on a regular school day, during lunch, we have at least 160 people going in and out. And that concerns me because it's far, far cold. Doesn't want us to have any more than 70 people in there. It's a concern.

Okay. Great. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. This here is our 10th grade language arts class here at Tuluxack High School.

And this current room that we were in is a special ed office. And due to the lack of classrooms and how big our classroom sizes are, we had to take the special ed office and turn it into a language arts room. As you can see, we got about 19 students that are in 10th grade language arts. And there's by no means enough room to house all of our students. The other thing that this room doubles up as is over here in the corner, we got our networking for our technology and in this other corner over here, we have our PBX phone system. So this room is doubling up as language arts. It's used for technology. It's also used as our phone system. And we no longer have a special ed office for our special needs students.

Lighting is very poor and there's just not enough classroom space for students to do their work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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