Flood Affected Schools Finish School Year | Video

Rich Wisniewski | 5/24/2012

Fourth grade teacher Cindy Larcombe is in her 30th year of teaching. She has had plenty of memories to go along with her career, but perhaps this recent year was the one that will most stick out for her.

"It has gone amazingly well," she said.

Larcombe teaches at Longfellow Elementary school. She and her students spent the entire year in a temporary classroom since their original building was damaged by flooding. Now that the year is over, the principal of Longfellow, Tracey Lawson, says the classrooms get a passing grade.

We asked her to give rank it on a scale of one to ten.

"I`m going to give it a ten, it really did the job for us this year."

She says she was a little concerned when she first heard about the portable classrooms because in the past, the Minot School District has had free-standing portables. Where every class was separate. In short, they weren`t the best.

"I thought, how are we going to have 20 of these portables on our grounds and how am I going to meet the needs of these students and staff?"

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