Mathews County Superintendent of Schools Dr. David S. Daniel addressed this week’s emergency school closure during a special meeting held Friday morning in the school board office.
All three county schools were closed both Thursday, Jan. 16 and Friday, Jan. 17 over concerns about the domestic water supply at Mathews Elementary School. With no classes held Monday because of the King Day holiday, school in Mathews is set to resume on Tuesday.
Friday’s special meeting was called for another reason, with the board addressing a personnel matter. Following a roughly 40-minute closed session, the board voted by a 5-0 margin to approve Daniel’s recommendation for revocation of an employee’s license.
School closure
On Wednesday afternoon, the school division announced the closure on social media. The notice stated that the division had been alerted to the possibility that the domestic water supply at MES could have been exposed to the circulated water supplying the school’s boiler system throug...