My name is LaRonda Lugo I am the principal of Santa Rosa Ranch School
as I started cleaning the buildings with my crew we found that the infrastructure
of the building were not stable so the buildings over here with the kitchen and
the culture classroom and the special ed classroom they were leaking from and I
would say pouring rain during monsoon season so I had probably a 150 people
walked around here in August of this past year right before the kids came out
trying to help make it a better place for the kids to learn so that caused a
lot of attention and I think that attention trickled down and then we got help
late last year around the holidays I received some pictures about the
conditions of the school made a decision to shut the school down flew out here to
do a site visit and that was the right decision
the school was in absolutely horrible condition there were some concerns
around the integrity of the school and so we shut it down and began a project
of building modular systems for the students to return and today is the
first day that they're back in their new facilities
just watching the students get off the bus coming in high-fiving and then
walking into the cafeteria seeing how excited they were and then as well as
the teachers who were very humbled and excited to have clean classrooms and
safe learning environment for the children