A weekend vandalism spree left Carson Graham secondary besmirched with hateful graffiti – including a swastika – as well as two broken windows.
Maintenance crews were boarding up windows and painting over the sloppily spray-painted messages and smiley faces Monday morning, according to North Vancouver school district spokeswoman Deneka Michaud.
“It was all around the school,” she said, describing messages like I Hate Everybody emblazoned on school walls.
One message, photographed by CTV before being covered, advocated an “Explosive Solution.”
However, there is no cause for parents to be worried, according to North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl Richard De Jong.
“There is no threat to public safety,” he said.
The police have a few “persons of interest” in the investigation, according to De Jong, who said the suspects were Carson Graham students.
Principal Karim Hachlaf sent a message to Carson Graham parents Monday morning to assuage any anxieties about the graffiti.
The school district generally tries to have weekend vandalism repaired before students return to class, according to Michaud, who said they couldn’t quite cover all the graffiti before parents started dropping off their kids Monday morning.
“We always try to have it done before school starts so that by the time students get to school they don’t even know that there was any vandalism,” she said.
Michaud said she hopes potential vandals will realize that plastering graffiti over a school is more than just defacing property, it’s degrading a place students take pride in.
“It’s their space, it’s where they feel safe so when their schools are vandalized it’s actually very disconcerting for our students,” she said.
