In winter 2014, due to snow, a section of the roof collapsed.
By 2015 the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune advocated for an urgent replacement of the school.
[2] The editorial board cited a sewer system that fails during periods of extreme cold and periods of rodents causing infestations.
[5] Jill Burcum, the writer of the editorials, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize due to these stories.
[6] In 2016 the United States Department of the Interior got a $12 million grant for a new school for Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig.