HELENA — Just off Highway 12 near Spring Meadow Lake in the Helena Public School District sits Kessler Elementary School, and if voters pass a $43,000,000 bond proposed by the district, it will be replaced by a new school building.

"We make it happen, but I think that there are things about this building that limit that," said Riley Thatcher, who is going into her fourth year as the principal of Kessler.

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Some concerns she has with the current building are safety and security.

Students have to leave the main building and walk to a mobile unit for music class. With the school being next to the highway, they have had to put up an extra fence to pull kids away

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