We live with 500 feet of a public school. Actually 3 schools, one is a Catholic school and a high school in the other direction. This is  the school my grand daughters go to.
They are actually supposed to go to a school in their area across town, but we started them here and here they will stay.
At any rate, the city tore up the roads over by the high school, redid storm catch basins and still had not finished the road work; also this summer, work was started at the school.  Work on the roof and on the blacktop part of the playground.
I can't see the school from here, but I can hear what's going on over there.
All summer long, not much work was being done, or so it seemed.  Last week there was a flurry of activity over there.   Wednesday night, they worked all night long...dumping and dropping stuff.  Both the mister and I were awakened numerous times by the noise and VERY bright lights.
They better get it done fast....talk about hazardous for the kids
I went by the school Friday afternoon and they have finished paving and it looks like they are finished the roof.  Now all they have to do is remove the construction trailers and garbage bins.
And ...
Friday evening all is cleaned up and ready...
The town paved the road by the high school in half a day!...hmmmm! When the mister went out at 9:30 am it wasn't even started..when I went out at 11:00 it was finished!  Looks like they can do stuff quickly!  Why can't they do it like that in the first place?
Thank Goodness school is back in!  for me and the GD's


School started yesterday...