MOUNT OLIVET | It was inevitable, officials said, but vandal destruction of property stored in Deming School was beyond the imagination, school officials said on Friday.
According to Robertson County School Superintendent Chuck Brown, vandals hit the closed property twice in the last week.
“The Kentucky State Trooper who is investigating said it was the worst school vandalism he had ever seen,” Brown said. “They took the televisions that were stored on stands and rolled the whole things off the staircases. The things they destroyed could have generated more money for student activities at the new school.”
Plans for a nostalgia tour of the building before its demolition this summer, following the January move of classes to the new school property, have been canceled at this point, Brown said.
“We can’t take anyone in there. There are filthy things painted on the walls now and the floors are dangerous to walk on; you literally crunch on all the glass broken there,” Brown said.
Plans for a surplus sale are also impacted by the destruction.
“There were things in there people had said they were interested in purchasing, but there is so much damage, it is hard to tell what can be salvaged,” Brown said.
The expense of extra security for the building, and expecting exactly what happened to occur was one reason officials decided to have the building torn down this summer, Brown said.
By Thursday, five students had been questioned by KSP and officials about the damage.
“They were in there twice, apparently having so much, so-called fun the first night they went back to do some more,” Brown said.
The students were not anyone he had expected to do such a thing, Brown said.
“We had had a couple windows broken early on after we moved, but this is just horrible,” Brown said.
Brown anticipated KSP charging the students with crimes.
A review by the school board about compensation for the damage is forthcoming, he said.
A view of what had once been the exercise room and former gymnasium inside Deming School glimpses how vandals went on a rampage on Monday and Tuesday, breaking glass, destroying surplus and stored materials, and painting obscenities throughout the school.
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