These "teenagers" are old enough to do hard time for arson. Will the police release artists sketches so we can help track down these punks?

"Hey mom, I just need this beach towel for... uh... experimental purposes. No, I won't be home in time for dinner"

MEASURE A funds were supposed to provide money for surveillance equipment. The fact that this money has not been spent reinforces the belief that those pushing this massive money grab lied through their teeth about how the money would be spent.

If this surveillance equipment were installed, then there is every reason to believe that the identities of these arsonist-wannabees would be known by now.

However, after the "egg-throwing" case and its aftermath, there is no doubt that the school district, the police and fire department would be sued for making their kids identity known--forcing the city and school district to drop the matter, or pay millions in compensation to "my good little boy".

Waiting-For-Good-Government, you do know that Jordan has installed multiple security cameras in the past couple years, including a few in the cafeteria area and the bike cages, historically the locations where the most thefts and criminal acts took place. I'm assuming the kids were somewhat smarter then what their actions suggest of their intelligence, so they probably lit it on fire away from the cameras.

I believe that there was a fire at JLS that burned down the shop classroom several years ago when my boys were in school. I don't know if they ever identified the source of that blaze.....could have been arson. In response to that the school board or powers that be in their infinite wisdom purged the shop classroom and machines out of Jordan for the ostensible and really smart reason that "it wouldn't be fair for Jordan to have a shop classroom and not JLS." In my opinion this denied many students the joy of creating something useful and possibly even artistic (God forbid we waste time on art classes in PA....gotta do those hard academics every second in order to make the Ivy League). Unlike the 50's when I attended Jordan, they allowed girls to take shop class (and conversely boys to take Home Economics also referred to as cooking and sewing classes when I was in Junior High). My elder son absolutely loved shop classes and I still use the wooden oven rack puller he made and gaze at the clock of the US he lovingly presented to his parents with a sense of pride (I wasn't even going to mention the rowboat that survived one trip around Foothill Park's Boranda Lake)and later turned into a planter box for corn and later land fill). Thanks to shop classes which gave kids a time to get out of their heads during the day like PE (which used to be mandatory all grades when I was in school) my son was able to pick up skills that have served him into adulthood (he remodeled his own restaurant and kitchen).

why don' we make something for the youth o do at night during the summer, and on weekends...