Educational Institution...or Juvenile Detention?

an editorial by Franklin, Socorro, and Casey

At our school, Los Angeles Academy Middle School, many people pass by our school and think that the "school" looks like a prison. A student named Edward that is currently in seventh grade says, "The school looks like a jail because the P.E. field looks like a cage that was meant to hold prisoners." Another student named Franklin says, "The bars on the fence look like the bars of a jail cell." A student from seventh grade named Anthony says, "The school looks like a prison." That's when, Casey, Socorro, and Franklin, started to think, 'Why don't we ask a teacher?'.

We went and asked Anonymous why they thought the school looked like a jail. Here's our answer. "The school was actually built to be a Juvenile Detention Center but, parents said that they didn't want to have a Juvenile Detention Center in the neighborhood and that they needed a school much more than that because the only school close by was Carver MS. So it was decided. They built LA Academy MS however, they built it with the blueprints of the Juvenile Detention Center so that is why the school looks like a jail." Well, Anonymous pretty much summed that up for us didn't it? So now we know that the school was meant to be a Juvenile Detention Center. Well this has been news from Casey, Socorro, and Franklin and we're out!