Wayland Schools Will Be Open on Wednesday, Nov. 2

Students will head back to Wayland classrooms Wednesday, Nov. 2, after two early season snow days resulting from a freak October snowstorm over the weekend.

Crews restored power to Claypit Hill and Happy Hollow, both elementary schools, on Tuesday afternoon, and Stein said Wayland public safety officials had informed him "there has been significant improvement in the condition of the
roads."

Even with the improved conditions of the road, Stein asked that parents take a few precautions given that dangling branches and hanging wires are still around.

In particular, Stein asked that students who normally walk to school be driven tomorrow.

"Many sidewalks are blocked, forcing pedestrians to walk in the street in order to get by," Stein said in an email announcement. "This may put walkers in unsafe situations."

In addition, Stein offered the following tips:

If your child takes a bus, please wait with him or her at the bus stop. In isolated cases, some low hanging branches may prevent our buses from driving along certain streets -- blocking access to a bus stop. If your child's bus does not arrive within 20 minutes of the usual pick-up time, please drive your child to school.

If your child takes a bus to school, and the bus stop is on a closed street, please either drive your child to school or accompany him or
her to an alternate bus stop.

Based on your experience with the morning drop-off or bus pick-up,
give your child explicit instructions regarding how they will get home
at the end of the school day.

Stein also informed parents that the school is working to implement a reverse 911-style system explicitly for the schools.

"We have been planning to introduce a school-based reverse 911 system that would make it easy to call all families with school-age children during emergencies," he wrote in his email. "Unfortunately, the storm hit before we could test out this new system."

More information about that system will be available soon.

Stein acknowledged that some families remain without power and asked that parents spread the message about school being in session Wednesday.