The plans in the 100s hallway are to renovate the areas of the school not already renovated. The 100s hallway is only the beginning of the rotation of the work. They started in early June and are estimated to be done in December.
“The hardest part of being in this classroom is that it is just much smaller than my previous classroom so we are kinda squeezed in here but we’re making it work,” Observational Drawing Teacher Amanda Phipps said.
The 100s classroom will be changed to fit future and current culinary and art classes. The cost of renovations will be out of the 120 million dollar bond. The newly updated space will also help students with disabilities to have more accessibility and more space.
“We had to pick up a lot of our stuff and some of it is in the basement, and some of it is in our classroom,” Photography teacher Sydney Carr said.
Mrs.Carr has gone from a large studio into the 700’s hallway in a smaller classroom with all her supplies crammed into boxes in and outside of her classroom. The 100’s renovations are estimated to be done by the beginning of second semester. That area of the school has not been touched since late 70’s early 80’s. It is outdated and needs to be upgraded to be modernized.
“If you have gone through the FACS kitchen that is in there alot of the equipment in there that just needed to be remodeled,” Principal Mike Sharp said.
After the renovations the teachers are gonna be able to move their supplies back into their newly renovated
classrooms. Students are gonna be able to have more functional classrooms to work and expand the enhancement of their learning.
“I’m hoping that there will be bigger spacing, and I’m hoping we can get more art supplies organized better than it has for the last few years.” junior art student Gracee Peugh said.
Students can expect more spaces within the classroom and more accessibility with bigger doors and more floor to ceiling storage in the art rooms. Students can expect cabinets, storage supplies closets and a residential-style kitchens for FACS, Bigger doors, modernized classrooms.
For additional information go to https://www.lps53.org/bond-updates/project-overview, https://x.com/ MikeCSharp, https://x.com/ LIBERTYSCHOOLS to learn more about the renovations.
