Brown School roof collapse

[ron_newman]

The Brown School's roof collapsed last night. See link for story and photos. Fortunately the building was unoccupied at that hour. (hat tip to prunesnprisms for bringing this to my attention)

Edited to add: More detailed report at Wicked Local Somerville and Boston Globe report

Wasn't there a whole week of school closure in February, specifically to allow clearing snow from roofs? And the city was using drones to survey these roofs? I don't understand how this happened.

Comments

[greyautumnrain.livejournal.com]

My oldest goes to Brown.

There is supposed to be an information session tomorrow (Thursday) night for the families, so hopefully we will know more soon.

My main concern at this point is the logistics of getting my kid to and from school at the new temporary location. Like the bulk of Brown students she will be relocated at the Edgerly school which is in East Somerville. Traffic around Brown is bad enough in the mornings with only a fraction of the kids being driven to school. If we're all expected to get our kids to the other side of the city on our own it's going to be a traffic nightmare.

[mamabunny72.livejournal.com]

I share this concern too. We live w/i walking distance of the Brown, but we always drive b/c my daughter is not a morning person! Then there are the families who have to figure out the logistics of more than one location if their kids' ages span the range of K-6.

[irilyth]

Any idea if they're thinking about buses (e.g. from Brown to Edgerly), so people could drop off at the usual place in the usual way, and then the kids would ride en masse from there?

[mamabunny72.livejournal.com]

If you are a Brown parent: Can you go to the meeting tonight? That's a good question to bring up there.
My husband and I are going.

[irilyth]

I'm not actually, just a nearby nosenheimer. :^) Good luck with it!

[mamabunny72.livejournal.com]

Oh, haha! You bring up a great question and it got me wondering too! I'll jot down a note to ask the Superintendent and Mayor.

[ron_newman]

Can you (or someone else) summarize the meeting here, for anyone who needs the info but couldn't go?

[greyautumnrain.livejournal.com]

I just added a very brief summary below.