It’s the first day of school and you’re walking down the hallway. You stop at your locker, catch up with all the people you haven’t seen in two months and then head to class. You arrive at your destination only to find that the room you are standing in front of is not your English class as you had expected. That would be due to Freedom’s new layout for the high school, and it’s pretty simple; don’t let it confuse you too much.
At the end of last year, as most of you may recall, half of the teachers in the building were assigned new rooms for the 2013-2014 school year. The new layout was pretty logical to anyone who saw it; all of the departments were set to be grouped off in their own general areas, and the creation of the “Freshmen Academy” was going to be installed upstairs near the art room. This is where all of the core freshmen classes can be found. The upstairs wing that is perpendicular to that hallway is now strictly math and science classrooms, and the English and History Departments can be found downstairs in the hallway past Mr. Timothy Dadich’s office.
Not everything worked out as planned, however. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the maintenance at Freedom actually needed a lot of extra space. Instead of the whole English department being in the downstairs hallway, Mrs. Heather Giammaria and Mr. Aaron Fitzpatrick moved their classrooms upstairs to make room for maintenance, which now have their two classrooms for storage.
Giammaria is pleased with her new room, which is now on the corner of the school above the band room. “I do enjoy the extra room space for my theater classes. This will especially come in handy during all of the times that we lose the stage throughout the year. I’m definitely not looking forward to the snow that I have heard blows in the broken windows during the winter, though,” Giammaria said.
There have been a lot of changes at Freedom during the past couple of years, and I definitely would not classify this as a bad one. The organization of the classrooms is much better now. This is only the start of another great school year at Freedom, let’s make the most of it (and not get too lost in the meantime).