A group of 20 high school students from KIPP San Jose Collegiate in San Jose have confronted their school board over homeless people using drugs and leaving needles lying inside the building.

Cassandra MacDonald

The students allege that homeless people are in the bathrooms and using drugs at the lunch tables.

“We see them coming into our bathrooms. We have them sleeping in our athletic shred and we also have them breaking fences and doing drugs on the lunch table,” student Alfredo Hernández said during the board meeting, according to a report from NBC News.

The high schoolers said that the problem has been ongoing for roughly a year.

There is currently a large homeless encampment right next to the campus and the students would like a fence to be built.