LAHAINA — Ua hoʻokipa aku nā kumu kula a me nā limahana o ke kula kiʻekiʻe o Lahainaluna ma kahi o 700 mau haumāna i hoʻi i ko lākou pā kula i kēia lā no ka manawa mua loa i loko o ʻelua mahina mai ke ahi ahi o Maui.
Ua hoʻomaka ka lā kula me ka piko kakahiaka, a i ʻole ka protocol, i loko o ke keʻena haʻuki me kahi hui hoʻonaʻauao e komo pū ana me ke mele, ke oli, ka hoʻohanohano haumāna, a me ke mele ʻana i ka almater.
"I kēia kakahiaka, ua nui ka ikehu. Ua hoʻopau mākou i kā mākou piko kakahiaka, kahi i ʻike ai mākou i nā mea a mākou i hana ai a hauʻoli hoʻi i ka hoʻi ʻana mai," wahi a Richard Carosso, Luna Nui o Lahainaluna. "ʻO kēia ka lā mua o ka pule hoʻi, a ʻaʻole hiki ke kūpono ke hoʻi mai mākou i ka home."
Ua hoʻolālā ʻia nā hana hoʻi home mai ke kula a puni ka pule, e hoʻopau ana me ka pāʻani pôpeku home mua o Lunas ma ka Pōʻaono me Baldwin High.
"Maikaʻi loa ... ka ʻike ʻana i koʻu mau hoaaloha a pau. Hoʻihoʻi mai kēia pā kula i nā mea hoʻomanaʻo maikaʻi mai ka makahiki i hala. He mea maikaʻi ke hoʻi hou i kēlā, ʻoiaʻiʻo," ʻo Lahainaluna makua a me ka haumāna haʻuki ʻo Teva Loft.
Lahainaluna had been operating as a school-within-a-school at the Kūlanihāko‘i High campus in Kihei for the past month. The high school is the first of the Lahaina campuses to physically reopen to students this week.
Hoʻi hou ʻia nā haumāna kula haʻahaʻa o Lahaina i ka Pōʻalua, a ʻo ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III a me ke Kamāliʻiwahine Nāhiʻenaʻena e hoʻi mai i ka Pōʻakolu. E kaʻana like ana nā haumāna a me nā limahana mai ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III i nā keʻena pā kula me Nāhiʻenaʻena a hiki i ka wehe ʻana o kahi kahua kula no ka manawa ma Pulelehua kokoke i ke kahua mokulele ʻo Kapalua. Ua hoʻokomo ʻia nā hale lole kiʻekiʻe ma Nāhiʻenaʻena e hoʻohui i nā lumi lumi papa i lako me ka ea a me nā papahele laminate.
"E pili ana i kēlā mau kuʻuna a me nā hana maʻamau a nā haumāna e hoʻi mai ai a he ʻāpana ia o ka hui pū ʻana i nā mea āpau no Lahainaluna," wahi a ka Luna Nui Keith Hayashi. “A ua maopopo iaʻu e like ana ia no Lahaina Intermediate, Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena Elementary, a me nā haumāna, nā kumu a me nā limahana o ka Mōʻī Kamehameha III."
Hayashi noted that the Department has taken numerous steps to ensure the safety of the Lahaina schools, including extensive environmental testing of soil and drinking water, which have come back safe; professional cleaning of all interior and exterior spaces; access to a network of air quality monitors installed by the state Department of Health and U.S. EPA outside all of the schools to detect fine particulate matter; bi-weekly wipe tests in classrooms to test for any particles settling on surfaces.
Ua hoʻomohala pū ka 'Oihana i ke alakaʻi olakino a palekana me ke Keʻena Ola e hōʻike ana i nā hana a nā kula e hana ai i nā manawa a pau e loli ai ka maikaʻi o ka ea: bit.ly/ReopeningSafetyGuidance.
