RESEDA : Newly Painted Walls Vandalized at School

Student leaders at Reseda High School learned a tough lesson when they arrived at school Thursday morning and found that graffiti vandals had been at work on the walls and bins they had painted over just the day before.

“It really is sad. . . . The kids were just devastated,” said Jay Shaffer, a teacher and sponsor of the student government class.

The students at Reseda had received money from the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley Division to purchase the tools and supplies needed to paint over the graffiti that is scrawled all over the neighborhood surrounding the school.

On Wednesday, the students painted over an earthquake storage bin and two walls, and were looking into future cleanup projects for the paint they had left over.

Shaffer said the students are considering repainting the bin and the one wall that was tagged with graffiti Wednesday night. But they are also somewhat disheartened. “I don’t know what the solution is,” he said.