Lassiter High School is a place of secrets. Weather somethings or unknown or just rumor the student seek and ponder the truth. People will tell freshman or just new comers about the concert hall being haunted or the under water basket weaving ASE. Through process of elimination students can usually narrow the list down by knocking out obvious lies, but the one real question they ask themselves is: is there a swimming pool on top of the science building?
The answer is yes, well, kind of. The administration extracted the pool's water due to celling problem in the Georgia flood a couple of years back. The pool remained in an empty state for about four years, but due to a decision made by Lassiter's staff it seemed that bringing the pool back by refilling it was the best option.
The thought in most people's heads when they hear about the pool on the science building for the first time is probably like: why would a high school put a pool on top of one of their buildings? The answer is simple. No one else does, swim and dive don't have to travel to practice, might as well make science as fun as possible, and where do you think the senior luau took place four years ago?
"Well." started Dr. Richie on the annoying topic."We took the water out because of terrible weather conditions and because of all the students ditching class and swimming in it. The pros of having it was a minority and it didn't seem approachable in bringing it back, but after a good discussion and a few good points we decided why not."
Obviously bringing back the pool didn't seem that big or important, I mean this is a school after all. But just as Dr. Richie said its not like putting water back in it is going to charge a major fund or help from SPLOST. The only thing probably impeding the decision was the fact that students will still ditch school to swim in it. "A fence seemed like the only way around that problem," Added Dr. Richie,"but that seemed like to much to bother trifling with. Then I realized that ditching is ditching. We already have methods to stop students from ditching, but the ones that get away with it will still ditch. Bringing the pool back won't provoke ditching, but it will probably give them something to do when they ditch. At least we can keep an eye on them."
In conclusion, the pool has been a mystery to all student who have passed through Lassiter. I remember my senior brother telling me one day when he came home looking like he was just swimming one night in the middle of winter. He said he was just swimming in the pool above the science building. He was being sarcastic obviously not believing in it. Hopefully this time it will be known to the student body and will be seen as a Lassiter monument.
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