By: Meagan So, Staff Writer
ATTENTION MILLS VIKINGS, THERE HAS BEEN AN URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT!! After thorough observation, our administration has recently discovered that our school has a serious problem, and because of it, more and more kids have been found neglecting school work, ditching class, and arriving late to periods. You all may be wondering, ‘what is it’? The answer: mirrors. Apparently, students have been caught using chromebook cameras to take selfies instead of working on assignments, fixing their appearances in bathrooms instead of going to class, and overall, just staring at themselves so much that they have no time to be productive. Additionally, mirrors seem to pose an issue with students who don’t want to see their reflections as well, and many of these kids have reported and sent in complaints about mirrors to teachers and counselors, reporting these pieces of glass to sites like STOP IT for feeding their insecurities. According to the admin, this mirror problem has become so out of hand that they have come to a shocking conclusion. All mirrors will be removed from school grounds entirely! However, it’s not just mirrors, but all reflective surfaces and objects as well, to prevent any other methods of students looking at their reflections or causes of rising appearance insecurities. To make matters worse, this rule is effective immediately. That means every reflective item on at Mills will be removed or confiscated if detected by newly hired renovators or staff as soon as possible. In the next couple weeks, all reflective objects ranging from things made of shiny metal like utensils to things made of glass, like windows and doors will be taken away and demolished due to the “potential danger they could put students in”.
In my opinion, this is outrageous! There is no reason to go to such extremities! There is no need to remove all mirrors from campus and definitely no need whatsoever to remove every single reflective thing in sight just because we want or don’t want to see how we look. This attempt at solving a small, harmless problem is going to end up causing major complications.
McKayla Chan (9) shared a similar opinion and her personal struggles regarding this new regulation. During our interview, I found out her glasses were recently confiscated due to their “hazardous properties”, as the staff member who confiscated them stated. Chan exclaimed, “I HATE THIS NEW RULE! I can’t wear my glasses to school anymore and it’s impossible to see anything from a distance [without them].” She continued, “There was this incident where I was running to what I thought was my friend, but it was a pole! I nearly ran into it! This new rule has to be removed!”
That’s not all! Students who spend their free periods off campus have been spotted jumping through spaces and frames around Mills’ buildings where windows and doors used to occupy, no longer forced to wait to be let back in. Julia Smith (9) said, “I was in a math hall classroom during flex when I saw a senior dolphin dive through one of the removed windows and onto the floor. They were in such a rush and rolled into, like, five desks before sprinting to their next class! This is a hazard! We seriously need to allow glass on campus again!” In addition to wanting to prevent bowling ball seniors, the admin needs to remove this new rule because it could seriously put all our safety in jeopardy.
Another freshman, Kara Cheung added her opinion on the matter, talking about her experience in one of the girls’ bathrooms that had already been “fixed” by renovators. She started, “This new rule is crazy! I was trying to use the restroom, but I ended up walking into someone using one instead. All of the locks on the stalls were ripped off!” She continued talking about how pipes, mirrors, metal pieces, faucets, and more were missing. “Then, when I walked into a different stall, the toilet was clogged with…you don’t wanna know. All the flush handles were gone too,” she finished. So apparently, admin is worried that after all the mirrors and windows are gone, students will turn to look at themselves through shiny metal locks and toilet flushes as an alternative. I mean, come on, we’re not desperate!
This change on campus has caused so many incidents and inconveniences in the past couple days, and only a few appliances have been removed. So imaging the damage it’ll cause after all reflective surfaces and objects are removed entirely! There have also been several other odd things reported recently, some examples including an increase in random outsiders and animals being found on campus and water fountains dispensing liquid at random times in random places, due to missing (reflective) pipes. So, to whoever has control over this rule, administrators, staff, board of education, superintendent, SOMEONE, please remove this regulation and save us all.
