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Here’s a photo before the door got cut in half:

The supply was located right next to the attendance office (also facing the lunchroom) so within about 2 days every kid in school
knew where my office was. A sign outside was added to make it official. Then I talked the wood shop kids into making a large
display case made for me, and the principal let me put it up on a wall in the which I put on the other side of the attendance
office. I stuffed it full of random things; photos and cautionary tales of local car crashes; stats about drugs and drug abuse, and
a lot of educational photos.

I added a large mirror in there, knowing teens needed to preen themselves regularly and I wanted to attract them to the board.

I was a full-time School Resource Officer for five years. During that time I saw a lot of kids come and go and I was able to make
some positive changes in some of their lives.
Quite a few of the kids needed protecting from themselves. I took a dim view of teenagers smoking cigarettes in the woods and
neighborhoods surround the high school. Back then, an astonishing 30% of teenagers were regular smokers. Can you imagine?
Out of 100 kids, 30 of them were smokers!