by Benjamin Minch, Staff Writer
Who could have known, that a threat so small in size could be such a huge problem around Fountain Valley High School (FVHS)? They eat our food, terrorize our classroom and hinder our academic success. They must be eliminated at all costs, or else the ants will conquer FVHS for good, and they will be impossible to stop.
A recent ant attack hit the 230 halls: unpredictable, and unexpected. There were only a few survivors, but one of them has agreed to share details about the graphic battle with us.
“In biology, the ants got inside our solutions and distracted our data and learning. I saw an ant on the table and smacked it, causing our solution to spill and the whole class to become distracted. I hate ants. They are devastating.” said Cameron Nakashima (’18), who escaped only with a few minor psychological injuries.
Attacks like these are popping up all over the campus of FVHS: in the orchestra room, English halls and just about everywhere else. Students are disgusted and terrorized by this threat, but none know what to do against the multitude of ants that seem impossible to defeat.
Battling ants used to be impractical, but that was because students were fighting them without a battle plan. Students would simply just smack and kill single ants at a time, not realizing that they will keep coming in even bigger numbers than before. The ant problem is like a growing tree: cutting off the branches is useless because they will just grow back. The only way to cut down the tree and kill it for good is to cut the trunk, which in the case of ants is their food source.
Every crumb that is left in the classroom is ammo, resupplying the ant population. You can never wipe out an army that has a mass number of supplies such as the United States in World War 2. If students constantly bombard the supplies, meaning not eating food with crumbs, they will throw a killing blow to the ant population. The ants will be forced out of war because they are low on supplies, and they can’t get resupplied at the school.
Students, if you are disgusted by ants and want to get rid of them, then why not take a stand against them? We have a fighting chance, especially since we are 6,000 times bigger than them! Don’t eat crummy food during class. This could mean crummy in both ways because foods with crumbs are usually unhealthy as well, such as chips and cookies. Doing this simple task will ultimately crush the ant problem at FVHS and bring years of prosperity and cleanliness to the pest ridden campus.
