For close to 30 years Athens Drive High School has waited patiently for the city of Raleigh and the Wake County school system to work together to provide simple improvements that at the very least would allow stadium access to the handicapped, simple bathroom facilities for student athletes and a paved parking lot.

When our students and staff at Athens Drive travel to other high schools in Wake County, they are met with beautifully manicured fields, press boxes, handicap accessible seating, field houses and paved parking lots.

It is sad to know that our kids see this and wonder why no one cares enough to improve their school.

Our stadium improvement plans will be brought in front of the Raleigh City Council on Jan. 17.

We hope that politics and special interests will evaporate when council members think of our students struggling in wheelchairs, our athletes using the woods as a bathroom because they have no facilities, our families tripping in ditches because our parking lot is unpaved and poorly lit, our bathrooms with broken toilets, black mold on the stalls and holes in the walls.

We request that the council recognize this shameful neglect and blatant inequality and vote in favor of the Williams Stadium amendment.

Karin Evanoff

Jaguar Club President

Athens Drive High School

Raleigh