So today the school had to be closed to the students due to the fact that the main water system at the school had to be turned off. Why did this happen? Let me take you back to last Friday ........
One of our year 7 boys wasn't having the best day at school - he didn't want to go to class even though he had been asked repeatedly by our Deputy Principal, Sir Tal. To make his point very clear to Sir Tal he decided to find a broken broom stick and threaten him - now while this might sound quite shocking and full on, this is a fairly regular occurrence and most of the time the kid doesn't intend to actually hit (it is usually Sir Tal that gets the brunt of it), they are only 'gammin' and just want to see you flinch and get a reaction out of you. However as Sir Tal is quite used to this he did not, much to the boys annoyance, flinch at all. So he decided to take his annoyance out on a main water pipe (thankfully), the pipe burst and the water was shut off. The police were called to the school to help out with the situation, while they were talking to the Principal and Deputy, the boy was sitting quietly in the office with us, as if nothing had happened. The kids tempers dissipate as quickly as they flare around here. They hate you one second, call you every name under the sun, then the next minute they are over it and apologise like nothing happened.
In usual Kowie fashion, as we are starting to grasp, the part needed to fix the pipe was not available - and you can't just duck down to the local Bunnings and pick it up! So a temporary fix was done - very temporary it turned out, 15 mins later the pipe burst again.
Monday wasn't an issue as it was our Student Free Day anyway, however the pipe could only be repaired today so it was decided that the kids would have to stay at home for another day.
Only in Kowie!!!
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