District, Students Upset After Finding Graffiti On Two Metro Schools

<p>Students at two metro schools were greeted with vandalism when they came in&nbsp;Monday morning, and they&rsquo;re not happy about it.</p>

Monday, August 29th 2016, 5:32 pm



Students at two metro schools were greeted with vandalism when they came in Monday morning, and they’re not happy about it. 

"I thought 'I wonder who did this?'” said student Veronica Carpio when she first saw the 20-foot high gibberish painted on the front of U.S. Grant High School. “I wonder what it means.  I wonder why they did it.  What hatred do they have towards the school to be able to do something like that."

Student Brenna Eitel wondered the same things.   

"Why would they just waste their time doing this than do other stuff?" Eitel asked.

Someone spray painted the large graffiti on the school over the weekend. 

"It’s really sad actually because, I mean seeing this happen to our school and our community, it just seems like it just says something wrong about us," said student Savucena Barzart.

And it wasn’t just at U.S. Grant High School. 

Similar graffiti was found Monday morning on a wall near Will Rogers Expressway, just a few blocks from U.S. Grant High School, and even more found on the side of Capitol Hill High School. 

School officials think they all are related and students are mad. 

"About how they're wasting our school's money when we already have budget cuts and we're losing teachers and kids are out here spray-painting our stuff and destroying it," Eitel said.

Oklahoma City Public Schools spokesman Mark Myers said the vandalism just adds more strain to an already struggling budget.

"You know it's really frustrating. Obviously we're in a huge budget crisis. To have to spend money to clean up something like this. To clean up this kind of graffiti is just really something we don't need to be focused on at this point," he said.

School officials said if they do find out who did this, they plan to file criminal charges.  

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