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When it’s time for hands-on experiments in Montevideo High School senior Quinn Duellman’s science class, he and his classmates can’t light the Bunsen burners.
“We are unable to be using flames because the gas pipes are so bad that we're afraid of a gas leak,” Duellman told MPR News.
And the 17-year old says he tries to avoid using the restroom in his school because his friends “say that they’ve smelled a weird smell within the bathrooms.”
Montevideo Schools Superintendent Jamie Skjeveland acknowledges that the aging school’s restrooms smell pretty bad, and there’s a reason for that.
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“The pipes that the sewage was going down, they were calcifying,” Skjeveland said. “It had calcified to the point wher...
