Thanks, I stayed away from this thread until today. I feared everyone was going to attack me for getting upset for the saftey lectures. I imagine everyone has accidently hit a live circuit with a screwdriver or such. Doesn't the breaker usally trip quickly? In conclusion I recommended that the school district have there electrician look into it and pull in new wires from panel to recep. He did and must have nicked the wire in one of the j-boxes. When the circuit was turned back on there was a direct short buzzing in the cieling. It melted the wires in the last j-box. In fact the wirenut was still on fire dripping molten plastic. The breaker again never tripped. It's their problem now, but I still wonder why.
