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Many changes have happened at NS due to the pandemic, including teachers moving classrooms. Moving classrooms often creates challenges and headaches for teachers, but for some, it’s not a big deal at all.
Alex Barlow has moved to the auditorium for more space so that he can social distance better. Before he could move to the auditorium, he asked the administration and got the approval.
Barlow will move back to his old room next year after the pandemic is over. He also let Whipple use his old room for the time being. He brought what he needed for this year and he still has everything else still in his old room.
Whipple thinks that moving to a new room for this year was a great idea. He had moved to the room he is in now so he could social distance better and as a COVID precaution. Whipple loves the room, the open space he has, and the windows in which he can see the sky.
“I think that it’s a fantastic gift that I got,” said Sterling Whipple.
Whipple had a hard time projecting his voice across the room, so he got a speaker and a headset to help with that. Whipple brought only what he needed as he will go back to his other classroom at the end of the year.
Ben Cox, journalism teacher at NS, has moved classrooms many times in the years he has been teaching. He has moved four times in the past four years, even moving back to the same room a couple of times. Those are only the most recent moves, as Cox has moved seven times in the seventeen years he has worked at NS.
“We came up with the solution less than a week before school started,” Cox said.
This year, he had to move to a room that he could social distance from students because of the lung condition he has. Cox wishes he could go back to the room he had before this as he can’t hear his students sometimes and he likes the other room better. He wouldn’t haved switched rooms if he didn’t have to because he had too many things to move.
Christensen was perfectly fine with moving rooms. She thought she was going to the now-retired science teacher Jed Brewer’s old room, but after some decisions from other faculty, she ended up in room S32. Room S32 was also the old journalism room and journalism hopes to return once circumstances change. She likes the room that she has now, even if she didn’t get to choose in the long run.
“I don’t really care as long as I have a home base,” said the health teacher, Taylor Christensen.
