With the start of the 2012-2013 school year, some changes were brought about- two new buildings, a new plaza, and even a new theater. These changes are, of course, much different that what we were used to. In the old building, windows are non-existent in the classrooms except for the small windows that allow hallway light through the door. In the new buildings, however, every room has at least one window allowing natural light into the classrooms. The desks that we have gone through school with were also changed with the installation of the new buildings. The desks or should I say tables, sit two and have actual chair. For those of us who have classes in the old building know the feeling of having to go from actual chairs to a brown desk with an attached blue chair. Although the new desks don’t have the bookshelf, or footstool as most of us have used them as, they are still much different than the ones we are so used to. For those much needed calls from nature, in the old building, you only have three choices in the entire building, and they are all on the ground level, where as in the new building, there are a set of bathrooms on the second and first floor for you to use. Notes have always been something we have had to do, usually from a projector. The new buildings have the projector on the ceiling and hooked up to a panel on the wall near the teacher’s desk usually. Those poor classrooms in the old building; they have to use tables and desks in order to project their power points and videos. There is one thing, however that the old building has that the new buildings lack and that is the amount of staircases. Yes combined, the new buildings have five staircases, but apart, there is only two on the second building and three on the third building. The old building has a total of four staircases in order to get to second floor
Looking back on last year, there were a lot of things that shocked us, due to the fact that were so used to the old way of doing things. Taking a look at this year, however, it has become the norm not going from the old building to the portables everyday. You may hear teachers and students complain about the old building, but it is a piece of Hemet High history. But if having a class in a windowless box is not you thing, just remember there were people doing it far before you ever did.
Looking back on last year, there were a lot of things that shocked us, due to the fact that were so used to the old way of doing things. Taking a look at this year, however, it has become the norm not going from the old building to the portables everyday. You may hear teachers and students complain about the old building, but it is a piece of Hemet High history. But if having a class in a windowless box is not you thing, just remember there were people doing it far before you ever did.