Kids are hurting. The Legislature needs to do away with the onerous 'supermajority' rule

The kids at Bethel High School have nicknames for the cramped spaces they’re forced to endure and horror stories of a facility failing around them.

There’s “The Bunker,” a former girls’ locker room which, after a second life as an JROTC air-rifle range, now serves as a sports medicine classroom

Then there’s “The Bottleneck,” a section of hallway with four entry points that, during passing period, becomes so jammed with students that kids liken it “a stoplight without the light.”

“Every car has to just ram through their all at once,” one student said of “The Bottleneck.” Another, 17-year-old senior Samantha Waycaster, recalled the specific instructions incoming freshman receive about how to avoid it.

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