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Infamous
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- Oct 17, 2024
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Pembroke College had seen the writing on the wall for quite some time. The school had been featured on the news for all the wrong reasons from financial issues to behavioral scandals. The Dean had given one too many emails or announcements detailing how they would, “recover from this and come back better than ever.”
The school transformed over the years as funding fell. What once was a bustling open campus with beautiful green landscaping and modern classrooms turned into a blanket of decay and rust. The pathways that students walked became overgrown, covered in dead crab grass and cracked concrete with weeds hanging over the edges. The outside of the buildings were cracked as bricks fell and left holes that had to be hastily patched. Broken windows left the air conditioning working overtime and eventually it broke as well.
The school administration decided to throw bandaids on their most glaring issues. This exacerbated things making it far more obvious to the outside world that they were struggling. Bars were placed across windows, metal detectors at every entrance/exit and a surplus of security guards that you would find sleeping in their cars or in abandoned classrooms anytime of day or night during the last few sporting events they still held.
Everyone’s moral had progressively gotten worse which surprised staff and students alike. They didn’t realize there was a place to go below nothing. As the school struggled through scandal they lost further funding, crippling the programs they could offer, sports teams they could support which became a vicious cycle. Money rapidly dwindled which left teachers coming and going constantly. The only instructors they could attract were new, naive teachers that possessed an altruistic mindset on the profession.
They were fodder for the students to abuse and entertain themselves with. They didn’t stand a chance and many fled the school for opportunities elsewhere; many more changed their professional scope outright and abandoned teaching.
The school transformed over the years as funding fell. What once was a bustling open campus with beautiful green landscaping and modern classrooms turned into a blanket of decay and rust. The pathways that students walked became overgrown, covered in dead crab grass and cracked concrete with weeds hanging over the edges. The outside of the buildings were cracked as bricks fell and left holes that had to be hastily patched. Broken windows left the air conditioning working overtime and eventually it broke as well.
The school administration decided to throw bandaids on their most glaring issues. This exacerbated things making it far more obvious to the outside world that they were struggling. Bars were placed across windows, metal detectors at every entrance/exit and a surplus of security guards that you would find sleeping in their cars or in abandoned classrooms anytime of day or night during the last few sporting events they still held.
Everyone’s moral had progressively gotten worse which surprised staff and students alike. They didn’t realize there was a place to go below nothing. As the school struggled through scandal they lost further funding, crippling the programs they could offer, sports teams they could support which became a vicious cycle. Money rapidly dwindled which left teachers coming and going constantly. The only instructors they could attract were new, naive teachers that possessed an altruistic mindset on the profession.
They were fodder for the students to abuse and entertain themselves with. They didn’t stand a chance and many fled the school for opportunities elsewhere; many more changed their professional scope outright and abandoned teaching.