CHARLOTTE — Charlotte-Mecklenburg students will be returning to Charles Parker Academy after a busted water pipe caused damage.
Last month, students and staff had to relocate to Bruns Avenue Elementary for the beginning of the school year.
Each school kept its own individual school schedules, transportation, and lunch schedules.
The repairs were originally expected to take up to eight weeks.
Student Spencer Hedges is one of the many students at Charles Parker Academic Center who had his official first day elsewhere.
“This is like the second first day of school,” Hedges said.
Veronica Mundy, whose niece is a second grader at Charles Parker Academy, told Channel 9 that the only thing the temporary transition called for was longer drives to school.
“It was effortless,” Mundy said. “You know, we did have to go a little further with the morning traffic. No problem. You have to do it.”
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