Somewhere between Saturday night and Sunday morning Aug. 9, someone covered most of the exterior walls at Simonds Elementary school in 91原创 with spray-painted graffiti.
It was discovered by a local resident walking a dog in the area near the school, who took to social media to decry the 鈥渕indless and destructive鈥� behavior.
Simonds, which is located at 20190 48 Ave., is a 91原创 School District K-12 School.
A statement issued by the district on Sunday said the graffiti 鈥渋ncluded tagging and some profanity on the exterior walls of Simonds Elementary and U-Connect.鈥�
Similar graffiti was found at Alice Brown Elementary.
District staff will begin covering the markings on Monday, the statement went on to say.
鈥淪taff will be investigating as well as checking other school sites for similar incidents. As in past years, the schools will be following up with conversations about code of conduct and respectful behaviour with students in September.鈥�
鈥淭he District does not tolerate this type of incident. This graffiti does not reflect the two school communities.鈥�
Unlike a previous incident last month in Aldergrove, the graffiti did not appear to be obviously racist.
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In the Aldergrove incident, which took place over the weekend of July 4 and 5, vandals defaced North Otter Elementary School with graffiti that included the N-word, as well as paintings and words that made reference to male genitalia.
The drawings appeared to be autographed by a 鈥淏ig Jim鈥� and included a few symbols that appeared to be mushrooms.
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It鈥檚 been estimated the 91原创 school district spends as much as $170,000 every year to repair petty acts of sabotage, or about one per cent of the annual maintenance budget.
91原创 does, however, appear spend less than other such as neighboring Surrey, which is larger and spends as much as $750,000 a year on glass breakage, graffiti and wire theft.
dan.ferguson@langleyadvancetimes.com
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