Painting ceiling tiles update

Earlier in the year, I had written an article regarding the lack of colors in our school. After visiting Hudson’s high school and seeing all of the art on the walls and ceiling I had come up with the idea to paint our ceiling tiles.

At first, I received a lot of positive feedback and was very excited about starting this tradition. However, just like anything else, it was difficult to get the process going. I decided to take matters into my own hands by talking to administrators and writing up a set of rules/ plan to begin painting.

I was continuously told how great of an idea it was and how they wanted to get it going. As time went on, I was slowly kept out of the loop as my idea was passed over to the art committee. After a long process of trying to get approval and trying to work out a plan with the school, I have recently found out that we cannot paint the tiles. Apparently, our ceiling tiles are already flammable as is and painting them will make them even more flammable.

After being told that it was a good idea, taking time out of my day on multiple occasions and being left out of my own idea they decided that we cannot do it anymore. Obviously, this is very frustrating. Trying to get things done in any school takes time and effort in order to gain approval, but to go through such a long process for nothing is a waste of time.

Also, if it is such a danger to our school why do other schools partake in such activities? Especially somewhere like Hudson where they go to great extents and take safety very seriously. If we cannot paint ceiling tiles because it’s a fire hazard then our school should probably take down all of the posters and papers on the wall because paper is very flammable as well.

There are multiple things in our school that can catch on fire, but that does not mean that we shouldn’t do them. If it’s dangerous then we could have left some rooms off limits. For example, the science rooms sometimes use fire for labs which we could just implement a rule about not painting any tiles in science rooms.

There are multiple flammable objects in our school, but that hasn’t stopped us before. It’s a little frustrating and disappointing that I, along with multiple other students, got my hopes up and worked towards accomplishing this fun idea just to be told that it is not possible. All in all, I am disappointed in our school and upset about the lost opportunity to make our school unique.