TIGERTON, WI (WTAQ) – After a two-day break, school will be back in session in Tigerton Thursday.
A water line break Monday evening closed school for two days.
“We are all hooked up, everything is good to go and we are back to normal.”
Superintendent Ben Rayome says the necessary repairs have been made to bring the students back, but it was a mess to start the week.
“We noticed it because there was seepage in our basement between the floor and the wall.”
He says they did run into an unexpected issue which will impact one classroom.
“We do have one classroom that is out of commission because we had to cut the floor out of it to get water reconnected to our building.”
Rayome says that process did bring up the cost of the project.
“Our initial estimates were that it was going to be less than $10,000 dollars, but then we had to do some more digging and get into a classroom.”
The district has been fiscally responsible and can also turn the repairs over to insurance, according to Rayome.
He says it is always safety first when it comes to students, but now they have to figure out how to make up the lost time.
He says he is proposing that the school board swap a scheduled in-service day later in the year with a full day of school, but there are other options.
“Or we can just treat it like a snow day and we factor that in later on in the year, he said.
That may not be the words that students want to hear.
“We may have had our first snow days if you will in October.”
The School Board will take up the issue soon.
Rayome says the work was done quickly.
“Our head of building and grounds is a jack of all trades and a master of them all.”
He calls it a team effort to get things up and running and only losing two days.
