Updated at 2:01 p.m., Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Le Jardin expects to reopen tomorrow for all grades
Advertiser Staff
Le Jardin Academy, which closed its doors Tuesday because of an apparently isolated power outage on the Windward side that began at 5:30 this morning, expects to be open Wednesday for all grade levels.Today only the junior kindergarten was open because that campus — at another nearby site — had power.
"We have high possibility of being open tomorrow," said headmaster Adrian Allen.
The outage came just a few days short of the school seeing a fully automated phone notification system in place that would notify all parents with a single phone call. The system will be powered by a cell phone, said Allen, and not dependent on electricity.
"It's a safety issue," said Allen. "It's recommended by the Hawai'i Association of Independent Schools. And it means that in the event of a bomb or terroristic thing you could notify everyone very fast."
Because the entire campus is dependent on power, including the central switchboard, Web server and any classrooms with air conditioning, even the school Web site is not reflecting the latest information.
School spokeswoman Powell Berger said the school had depended on a phone tree to get the word out to all parents that the school was closed Tuesday, but still about 100 parents showed up with their children.
Most were told of the situation at the gate at 6:45 a.m. by waiting staff, school officials said.
