Tweeby
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Would you be upset if you found out that the your child's school lost all water at about 8:30 in the the morning and had no running water until after lunch (to flush the toilets) and no water fountains all day. No mention of water bottles available to the kids (at least in the upper grades). The kids are instructed to bring their own bottled water from home tomorrow, there will be some bottled water available at school tomorrow (no mention of cost).
No letter was sent home from school but at 7:30pm the school district did an antimated call with generalized info of no water from early morning and with a boil alert in effect for the kids to bring bottled water from home.
Ages: All of the students in the district. All 3 buildings (elementary, middle, and high) are very close to each other so all were affected.
When YS15 tld me about it when I picked him up at 5:30pm from afterschool activity, I thought he misunderstood because if the schools had no water why didn't they send the kids home? Why did the coach allow the kids to practice afterschool without water available to them? According to YS15, if you were not at practice today you can't compete tomorrow.
Calling the school district in the morning.
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Debi
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If there is no water to flush toilets it's a health issue IMO. School should have been cancelled or at least the option of picking your child up should have been given. I know it's difficult to cancel school in the middle of the day, but there should be an emergency plan ready.
In our district cancelling school in the middle of the day would cause huge logistics issues with rescheduling busses and not everyone has someone available to watch their kids on a moments notice. I'm not sure if our district would consider that a big enough emergency or not. It's amazing how many parents get pissed if school is closed early for a snow emergency, I can only imagine how many would think no running water isn't a reason to close early.
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javajunkiee
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Practicing without water available at the school would be concerning to me. There have been too many stories in the news about hs kids getting overheated and falling out when there aren't any issues, but the chances of that would be worse if they couldn't hydrate.
What was the issue? A broken pipe at the school? A water main in the area? I get that not having water for the restrooms would be problematic at best, but I can also imagine that the school was in a catch-22.
If they were getting status updates from maintenance that told them that repairs would be completed "soon", they had to measure the problem of releasing early (notifying parents, going into emergency mode) against the chance they'd be back up in the next hour or whatever. They probably figured they'd piss off people no matter what they did.
I have to say though I'd want them to at least call me and give me the choice. I'd tell the boys to get their assignments and come home as soon as they had them.
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Debbie_L
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Personally I wouldn't be upset by this. It was only for a morning. What could really be that urgent? Unless it is 100 degrees out where you live, I would think they could do without water for one morning. As far as toilet flushing - it isn't the end of the world in my opinion.
PS - This is just quick reply, so not intended for anyone in particular.
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Cassie23
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I wouldn't want to see either the girls' or boys' bathrooms without the ability to flush...especially in a school. UCK!
I would call as well and I would hope that students would be sent home if there was not running water available. Given that we are in the midst of a serious stomach flu issue I would hope running water and soap would be readily available. I know, I know hand sanitizer...but still. A huge percentage of students have been out this week because of the stomach flu, including my daughter. I would have a serious problem if my kid was sitting in a school with TONS of people in the building (ours is something like 1200-1400) and no running water.
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Tweeby
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Talked to the Superattendant's office. The message last night was VERY vague. I was told that water was out in the morning, for about an hour. Just mentioning that water was not available in the mornings could mean a short time or all morning long. If it was about an hour why not mention the time span in the message.
Bottled water was available but the kids had to go to the office to ask for it. I complained about that. Why not have it available in different areas of the school. My kid was told not to drink the water so he didn't, he never heard an announcement of bottled water in the office. In the message there was no mention of bottled water available yesterday, just that some would be available today but the kids should bring their own in.
Just love the level of communication the school has with the parents. Still nothing on the website.
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Miranda
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If water was out for an hour I think it is ridiculous to expect water bottle delivery to the kids in the classroom. It would take several hours to go out, buy the water, and then deliver to everyone in their classrooms or to set up "water stations".
My son always carries a bottle of water in his back pack.
I think the vague email you got regarding the water outage set things a certain way in your mind, and that is the fault of the district for not being clear on what really happened.
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RJ1
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No, I wouldn't be upset. I trust his school to do the right thing. They have never failed me. Just a blip on the radar, especially if he came home alive and well.
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Tweeby
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Water was totally off for an hour. Water was returned for flushing and hand washing after an hour. No drinking water from fountains all day yesterday and today.
If the kids can't drink water from the fountains than bottled water should be available. I don't expect delivery to every classroom but more than just in the Office. My YS didn't see any bottles of water in the lunch room during lunch.
I do find it interesting that another school district in our County was closed today due to a water main break that happened early morning. Water was restored except for a few streets but the pretty much the whole city is under a boil alert. The SAME as the kids in our district. Our kids are in school but the other district was called off. ***shaking head***
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Tweeby
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Your lucky if the schools never failed your or your child. I have had too many run ins with the school districts to trucst them blindly. They don't always do what is right.
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