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Woodhull Students Bused to H.S. After Sewage Backup

The intermediate school students spent most of the day at the high school.

Woodhull Intermediate School was eerily quiet at dismissal-time today.

By 3:40 p.m. – when bus drivers and parents usually converge on the school for pick-up – the rooms were dark and the building was already emptied out, as the students were bused to Huntington High School before noon today when their own building's toilets became backed up.

"We had 500 kids doing the pee-pee dance," Principal Jarrett Stein said following dismissal from the high school.

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He said that parents were notified immediately using a ConnectEd telephone call and were given the option of picking up their children right away or allowing them to take the bus home as usual, albeit from the high school. He said approximately 15 parents picked the kids up early.

The rest gathered in the auditorium where they ate lunch, watched the movie "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" and were entertained by the high school band.

"My guys were thrilled. They were loving it," he said.

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If the younger needed to use the restrooms at the high school, they were escorted by a teacher or aide.

Stein said the high school students were dismissed at 2:20 p.m. and the  intermediate students all made it on to their afternoon buses just over an hour later.

"They did a really nice job," he said.


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