A fire at Atlantic Middle School in August displaced 350 students. The sixth- and seventh-graders are housed in the Cass County Educational Opportunity Center, but 125 eighth-graders have been snuggled into the high school. The art room has been transformed into a history classroom; the media center is now subdivided into four classrooms, with bookshelves standing in as makeshift walls.

Take a look at eighth-grade students and teachers making the best of a less-than-ideal situation.

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Bennett Whetstone

As one of the handful of rooms changed to accomodate the eighth graders, the Aviation room has transformed into Ms. Reid’s math class. The year before, this classroom was used to teach students all about aviation and flight. This classroom was now used to fly students through mathematics.