Top to Bottom and End-to-End

Today was the last day of school. Now the real work starts. Come Monday our crew will begin the process of cleaning the entire school from one end to the other. That's right. Our summers aren't leisure. In the 45 days or so that we have during the summer, we have to clean all the rooms throughout the school. This includes, but is not limited to, such things as scrubbing and waxing all floors, cleaning all carpets, washing windows, painting, cleaning every room; which means cleaning walls, cabinets, doors, sinks, ceiling vents, smoke detectors, light fixtures and more; moving furniture, moving teachers from one room to another, collecting and preparing surplus items for pickup, doing maintenance projects and other duties as assigned. We do enjoy time as an entire crew working together, but with a shorter summer and no extra help we will be hard-pressed to get everything done. The teachers are great as they have already helped with as much as they can and that is fantastic.

It is also a juggling act to coordinate the cleaning around classes and other sessions that are scheduled throughout the summer. There's more to do than meets the eye. Although the building may seem quiet from the outside, inside it is like a beehive of activity.

As the summer progresses, we will slowly advance to that point in September when the students return, the teachers teach and the building once again sounds, smells and looks like an educational facility.

Have a safe summer!