Parents are upset after they say a district-wide assembly in Harrison County left students sunburned and dehydrated Thursday afternoon.
Groundbreaking for the new Harrison County High School is the talk of the town – but not because locals are excited about it.
An assembly gathered students K-12 from across the county, but parents say their students were left outside in the sun without water for hours.
“He looked like he was going to pass out when I picked him up at school yesterday,” said one parent about her son.
Another parent shared her son “had to help his friend walk back to the school after he had passed out from heat exhaustion.”
One high school junior, Landon Kinney, said, “I know personally there were some of my friends who did end up passing out in the stadium.”
Kinney estimated they were outside from noon to around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. He also complimented the teachers’ efforts.
“The kids that were sick, [the teachers] brought them under the bleachers to get some shade at least to get out of the hot sun and stuff,” Kinney said.