NO SCHOOL FOR M.R. REITER STUDENTS 12/16
UPDATE M.R.Reiter
There will be no school for the students of M.R. Reiter Elementary tomorrow, December 16. As of this update, the M.R. Reiter school students will return to classes on Wednesday, December 17, 2008.
Today the district brought in Environmental Connections, who conducts the air quality testing in our schools, to analyze the situation at Reiter. They recommended we bring in a professional company to conduct the clean-up. Even though the explosion was contained in the furnace room, the residue went through the vents and deposited a fine layer of particles on anything that was exposed.
The district has hired Remediation Specialist Inc., who specializes in cleaning the aftermaths of fires and other disasters. There are 15 individuals who are conducting the clean-up. They will be working all day and through the evening so that our teachers can retrieve the resources they utilize during instruction.
The following outlines our plans to temporarily house the students. The starting and ending time has not changed, start time: 8:30 a.m.; end time 3:00 p.m.
The Pre-K students will be housed at the YMCA at 200 N. Pennsylvania Avenue. The phone number of the Y is 215 736-8077. Parents will take the students directly to the YMCA in the morning and pick them up at the end of the day at the Y.
Kindergarten students will be housed at Grandview.
1st and 2nd grade students will be housed at the Middle/Senior High School. Students should be dropped off in the back of the school where they will enter through the doors next to the gym. Teachers and paraprofessionals will be there to escort the students to the classrooms.
The shuttle will continue to pick up students at Manor Park and M.R. Reiter. Students will be taken to Grandview and the Middle/Senior High School. Our paraprofessionals will be present to assist the students at M.R. Reiter. All M.R. Reiter students may take the shuttle during this emergency.
There will be an open house Tuesday, December 16 at 6:00PM for the parents of students in grades one and two at the Middle/Senior High School. Please park in the back lot and enter through the doors next to the gym. The meeting will begin in the gym. Teachers will then take parents to the classrooms were the students will be housed.
Monday, December 15, 2008
1st & 2nd Grade Open House, 6:00 P.M. Dec 16
M.R. Reiter
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
1st & 2nd Grade Open House
There will be an open house Tuesday, December 16 at 6:00PM for the parents of students in grades one and two at the Middle/Senior High School. Please park in the back lot and enter through the doors next to the gym. The meeting will begin in the gym. Teachers will then take parents to the classrooms were the students will be housed.
Site: HS
Time: 6:00PM
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
1st & 2nd Grade Open House
There will be an open house Tuesday, December 16 at 6:00PM for the parents of students in grades one and two at the Middle/Senior High School. Please park in the back lot and enter through the doors next to the gym. The meeting will begin in the gym. Teachers will then take parents to the classrooms were the students will be housed.
Site: HS
Time: 6:00PM
NO SCHOOL FOR REITER STUDENTS 12/16
NO SCHOOL FOR M.R. REITER STUDENTS 12/16
THERE WILL BE NO SCHOOL FOR M.R. REITER STUDENTS ON TUESDAY 12/16/2008. DETAILED INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE, CABLE STATION AND PHONE BLAST SHORTLY.
THERE WILL BE NO SCHOOL FOR M.R. REITER STUDENTS ON TUESDAY 12/16/2008. DETAILED INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE, CABLE STATION AND PHONE BLAST SHORTLY.
Special Board Meeting on Reiter
Any news from the special board meeting?
The BCCT has a front page above-the-fold story.
Boiler room blast closes school
“It was pretty bad. It blew out the windows,” a school official said.
By DANNY ADLER
M.R. Reiter Elementary students in Morrisville have off today and the school building is closed until at least Jan. 5 after a weekend explosion in the school’s furnace room, according to district officials. Officials hope to have all students back in class at other schools and alternative sites Tuesday.
The late Saturday night explosion, damaging only the furnace room, followed several troublesome days dealing with the faulty furnace. No one was hurt in the blast.
An oil odor first spread through the school Wednesday afternoon. The odor recurred Thursday morning, students were sent home and the school remained closed on Friday. A new pump was installed but the hot-air furnace exploded after 10 p.m. Saturday.
“It was pretty bad. It blew out the windows,” said Tim Lastichen, district facilities director.
Morrisville School District’s administration will work today to finalize plans to put kids in other schools, it was announced at an emergency school board meeting Sunday night.
Morrisville schools Superintendent Elizabeth Yonson said she wants a “smooth transition” in getting the kids back in the classroom.
A tentative plan proposed by Yonson at Sunday’s meeting inside the Morrisville Middle/Senior High School called for pre-kindergarten classes to be held at the Morrisville YMCA. First graders could resume their classes in the Middle/Senior High School’s library and H hall with second graders in the D hall. (First and second graders will not move through the school’s halls between periods, officials said.) M.R. Reiter’s kindergarten classes could go to Grandview Elementary, according to the plan.
Yonson said the administration still has to talk to teachers. Officials hope all the details can be sorted out today. When they are, the alternative school sites will be posted on the district’s Web site, www.mv.org and cable access channel 26. A phone blast will also go out to all families with M.R. Reiter students, officials said.
According to the district’s Web site, “The school will be closed until it has been determined that it is safe for students and staff to return.”
Dozens of parents and residents attended the meeting Sunday night. Some said these problems have existed for years, even decades.
“You have no regard for the safety of our children” Ann Perry told the board.
The BCCT has a front page above-the-fold story.
Boiler room blast closes school
“It was pretty bad. It blew out the windows,” a school official said.
By DANNY ADLER
M.R. Reiter Elementary students in Morrisville have off today and the school building is closed until at least Jan. 5 after a weekend explosion in the school’s furnace room, according to district officials. Officials hope to have all students back in class at other schools and alternative sites Tuesday.
The late Saturday night explosion, damaging only the furnace room, followed several troublesome days dealing with the faulty furnace. No one was hurt in the blast.
An oil odor first spread through the school Wednesday afternoon. The odor recurred Thursday morning, students were sent home and the school remained closed on Friday. A new pump was installed but the hot-air furnace exploded after 10 p.m. Saturday.
“It was pretty bad. It blew out the windows,” said Tim Lastichen, district facilities director.
Morrisville School District’s administration will work today to finalize plans to put kids in other schools, it was announced at an emergency school board meeting Sunday night.
Morrisville schools Superintendent Elizabeth Yonson said she wants a “smooth transition” in getting the kids back in the classroom.
A tentative plan proposed by Yonson at Sunday’s meeting inside the Morrisville Middle/Senior High School called for pre-kindergarten classes to be held at the Morrisville YMCA. First graders could resume their classes in the Middle/Senior High School’s library and H hall with second graders in the D hall. (First and second graders will not move through the school’s halls between periods, officials said.) M.R. Reiter’s kindergarten classes could go to Grandview Elementary, according to the plan.
Yonson said the administration still has to talk to teachers. Officials hope all the details can be sorted out today. When they are, the alternative school sites will be posted on the district’s Web site, www.mv.org and cable access channel 26. A phone blast will also go out to all families with M.R. Reiter students, officials said.
According to the district’s Web site, “The school will be closed until it has been determined that it is safe for students and staff to return.”
Dozens of parents and residents attended the meeting Sunday night. Some said these problems have existed for years, even decades.
“You have no regard for the safety of our children” Ann Perry told the board.
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