By any measure, Tenleytown’s new Wilson High School is a beautiful, functional, well-designed school facility. At $100 million, the city got its money’s worth from Sigal Construction when the renovated school was unveiled in August. Students were giddy. Parents beamed. Faculty members celebrated. The thanks from a few bad actors? Two fires set in the bathrooms a few weeks ago. The second, on October 11, forced an evacuation of the entire school. Repairs were estimated at $150,000.
“In some way,” Principal Pete Cahall wrote to parents, “I do not want to think or talk about the two incidents that we had in the last two weeks with fires being set in the bathrooms, but I am confident that we have turned the page on this type of destructive behavior.”
