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In his quest to learn all he could about student habits at Cheney High School, resident and member of the Citizens Facility Advisory Committee Bill Johns said he went to the school one day during lunch and noticed school staff had only set up six chairs at each of the 31 round tables in the cafeteria, and none of the tables were full. Johns said he brought this to school district officials’ attention, asking them if they had any hard numbers on the number of students that utilized the cafeteria each day.

“They said, ‘we don’t know,’” Johns told the Cheney Free Press editorial board.

So, he wen...