After weeks of the bathrooms on the third floor closing down due to plumbing problems, the school administration opened the bathrooms again. Mr. Keuther, Braintree High School principal, had a description on why the bathrooms were closed. 

“Well, we had a pipe that was in the floor [which] had broken somewhere. The first thing you have to do is to assess where the brake is, and so we had to get a company in to do that work.”

The bathrooms weren’t the only problem that Keuther had to deal with. Braintree High’s unique building made finding a company to fix it more challenging.

“Because it’s a municipal building, because of the age of the building, because of the structures that go inside, the fact that we have school going on—all of that took time to get planned out. We had to get the funding for it.”

Mr. Keuther wasn’t the only person relieved that the bathrooms were open again, Mr. Krall said how happy he was about this.

“[I’m] so relieved, it was a huge pain having to walk down half the school building to use the restroom, especially when I was used to having not one, but two close to my classroom.”

Now that the school and the faculty have an understanding on this situation, Principal Keuther knows what to do next time it happens.

“If we had an understanding ahead of time that something might happen, I think then you’d see us plan appropriately. Be proactive and do the work prior to [it]. I think that the hard part is that a lot of times with facility issues, it’s reactive rather than proactive, because no one knew the pipe was going to go.”