This school’s not so hot
An article from The Baltimore Sun provides some insight into what can happen to a facility victimized by deferred maintenance and an apathetic school community.
Miko Baldwin took a recent day off from work to help out in the office at Woodlawn High School in Gwynn Oak, Md., and discovered something that stunned her: the locker rooms had no hot water. And it turns out they hadn’t had any for at least two years. Baldwin complained, and within weeks the hot water was restored. But she still worries that the lengthy interruption of such a basic need is, at best, a sign of neglect, and at worst, evidence that a community and a school system might be writing off a struggling school….The school’s principal, Edward D. Weglein, said he was unaware of the water problem until after Baldwin called the system’s facilities department.
This raises the question of how a school’s locker rooms can be without hot water for at least two years without the principal’s knowing about it. Maybe that’s a question other principals can answer.
