Or it could cause a lock out due to
safety things of the theater. Its a budget and administrator type thing. Saving money in not having a theater program might be good for the football program to them given what I read about school budgets.
"My advice is if you as a student feel unsafe and see it as unsafe, then tell your parents. Better a canceled theater program because of
safety/budget problems, then a theater program canceled because of personal injury and possibly death." would be what I say about it. Get your parents involved in getting the school to budget for
safety upgrades.
In my own and
current home theater they used to have 30 amp
stage and wall pockets that dated from the 1920s. Basically it's just opposing plates of steel that were for the plugs, wired to a handle seperating them. The outlets had exposed similar plates very exposed in
porcelain sockets. Touch the wrong thing in the dark of a
stage deck pocket and you would very possibly die. This was about 1996 seventy years after they were installed and it's origional wiring was still in use. Granted in my time there I did correct the most outragous of stuff such as above and one of the plugs and sockets is prominant on my wall of shame, I would caution just going outside the school to report the place. Schools are outside
OSHA and much for other jurisdictions.
I would not fall in opinion for just living with it and especially not with doing your own corrections to the
system, but following the chain of command with the school and your parents with the school board might be a better way to deal with the problems. Until than, make your concerns well known to the staff and other students. Stages in general are not the safest places to be. With a lot of concern training and care while the school figures out what to do such a
system like with the 30 amp outlets above can still be used. Just with more caution by all.
Once plugged in the fly
rail index light and afterwards went to
bend some 1/2" pipe off it's support structure and got some healthy sparks off it. Seems the old TD was satisfied with living with an
index light that while in an unpolorized ancient twist
plug had it's
fixture with a
clear cut short between
neutral and
ground.
Plug the
fixture in backwards and the entire lighting
grid was electrified much less anything touching it would spark. Scary places them stages at times. Were the fly
system not already scary the electrical charge
thru the
wire rope will have made it also unsafe for further use. You want to do better and in my case I was able to improve it over time and a
punch list, but at school it's still not proper without specific instruction to be modifying it.
Be careful, make your opinions known but don't touch the wiring without supervision and approval. Nor will reporting it to a higher authority help probably. Tact and the chain of command would be my opinion.