The modernization plan eating away at WJ holds numerous promises to students once finished by the year 2010. New tennis courts, a new stadium, even wireless Internet will be made available. These guarantees are great and all, but for the time being does it really matter what the end product is? Especially for seniors, as we endure the disadvantages of our high school under construction, you would assume we would feel it to be a lost cause.
However, we’re not the ones that you see complaining.
“Not having home games for sports is definitely the worst part, but otherwise it’s not that bad,” said senior Emily Kleinburd. “It has to get done sometime.”
The assumption that the whole student body feels bitter about construction is not necessarily true. While we all have our strong dislikes about the modernization, we learn to deal with them. The bussing to “home” football games are a cute attempt to keep the spirit alive and unite students. May
be shutting down our stadium for renovation wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
Although, there is still that student who walks through a puddle by accident on a rainy day, cursing administration for his or her now ruined shoes. They will complain that it wouldn’t
have happened if Portable City didn’t exist. Honestly, you should watch where you’re going more carefully. And to those students who complain about the long walk to classes? Suck it up, everyone could use a little exercise now and then.
The majority of these negative murmurs concerning the school’s construction seem to be made by underclassmen, who I hear passing by where the football field used to be, grumbling about the laborious walk they have to endure from art class to math.
That’s right. These are the students who will actually be able to benefit from this construction mayhem.
For one thing, I was actually more than happy that the majority of my classes seemed to be in portables. It’s a pain wandering within the building trying to orient myself with the new room numbers, but outside, the portables are neatly labeled in numerical order. I get asked frequently whether I think the construction is ruining my senior year and truthfully, it doesn’t bother any of us. If you want to be on a perfectly clean campus for high school, move to the Churchill cluster.
“It’s not about the building,” said senior Mercedes Plessmann. “It’s about the people.”
The main gym is scheduled to open tomorrow, just in time for the Homecoming dance to take place here instead of having it at Tilden Middle School like last year. During the 2009-2010 year, students will have the opportunity to start enjoying the benefits of the modernization.
“I could not care less about the construction,” said senior Alex Harbitz. “Not being around for the benefits doesn’t bother me, as long as I know in my heart that my fellow WJ predecessors are learning like they never have before.”
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