It was very clear to me when I drove through Bonners Ferry last year and saw multiple signs, buildings, and other things tagged "Class of 2011," that the school system should get involved.

We are not talking about one or two signs in town ... I counted over 15 from Montana to Sandpoint! At that point, I felt that the school should have been very proactive!

They should have told the graduating class that graduation would be postponed until EVERY thing a few uncaring thugs had done to the town was cleaned up.

Where was the school on this one?

If you don't think it is fair to make everyone in the graduation class clean this mess up, think about it this way: Clearly the soon to be prison inmates were not caught, but I guarantee that the rest of the class would have been more than willing to give up the offending parties name's in order to get out of the hard labor labor of cleaning up half of the state if their date with graduation had depended on it.

Unfortunately nothing was done, and half of the graffiti is STILL up! The class of 2012 appears to be following in their path.

My point is that the school is teaching young adults that they don't have to worry about being held responsible for defacing the town, because neither their class nor their community are accepting the responsibility to hold them accountable.