A Heck of A Day!

Have you ever had one of those days that something never expected happens. Well today was that kind of day for me. It started off normal enough, I ran to my regular school to pick up a few things and make copies and then went to my other school to teach class. Nothing was unusual about that, unless you count the fact the kids were actually really good compared to normal. When I got back to my regular school I noticed a line on the carpet that was a darker color than the rest of the carpet. At first I just thought that I had brushed my foot up against it and it was just laying a different way. Then I bent over to pick something up and touched it. I soon discovered that it was wet and I noticed that the line followed across the room. The nice little line ended in a pool of water on the other side of the room. So I went and hunted down the custodian and he came to suck the water out of the carpet. In the mean time I took my classes to PE since we couldn't be in the music room. After two hours I came back to my room to discover standing water where I had first questioned if the carpet was even wet. At that point I realized that my entire room was flooded and in fact under about 2 foot of water. My classroom is tiered and half of it had been covered by a wooden platform. Under the wooden platform is entirely flooded which goes down to about 2 feet deep. So the custodian and I spent all afternoon taking apart my keyboard lab and moving everything higher in the room.

What frustrates me the most isn't that my room flooded and I have to find alternate plans for my kids. It is that no one is willing to do what needs to be done. They need to come in, rip out the carpet, take out the platform, suck all the water out, fix the problem, and the replace everything. However, seeing as we are getting a new school next year all they are doing is sucking the water out of the carpet. Which of course leaves rotting wood and mold under my feet, not to mention the live electrical outlets and water that are sitting in the water either! I actually hope that it is worse tomorrow when I go in so that maybe someone will believe me and see just how bad this whole situation really is!