Salina Strapshire, a Taos High School senior, said hallways at her school repeatedly smell of sewage and the general odor of an aging building, making corridors unpleasant and in some cases avoided by students. "There'd be this smell of, you know, just old building and kind of like this old sewage system," Strapshire said.

She described classmates' reactions as initial laughter that faded as the odor worsened. "That is so gross. Like, who just who just did that?" she recalled students saying, adding that students would avoid walking down the hall. "No one would wanna walk down this hall, and it was just completely gross. And I know no kid should live like that," she said.

Strapshire framed the problem as recurring during transitions between classes. The transcript provides no information about which specific school facilities teams or district officials were present, whether the district has received prior notices about the odor, what the cause or source of the smell has been determined to be, or whether any remediation steps have been scheduled or completed.

The remarks, as recorded in the transcript, serve as first-hand testimony from a current student about the condition of school hallways; the district's response was not included in the provided transcript.