SLOHS English teacher Scott Nairne’s new classroom upstairs still has character. Photo Courtesy of senior Adam Bolivar-Stone.
The newly remodeled classrooms at San Luis Obispo High School hav a modern industrial theme and this has unfortunately made most of the classrooms dull. Many SLOHS students come to school already in a bad mood, and these classrooms don’t promote any exciting or engaging experiences.
It’s important for teachers to develop an environment that will enhance the connection between student and teacher because it will create the most optimal learning space.
“You walk into Mr. Nairne’s classroom and there are random paintings, passages, pictures, and posters everywhere. I think you get a good sense of who he is and it makes me more motivated to do work in his class,” said senior Maxwell Mcgraw.
Even if the teacher’s personality doesn’t match with the students, for some it’s important to have some character in a classroom they are going to sit for months on end in.
“Let’s say you walk into a haunted house, do you find that appealing or comfortable? Is that a place that you could learn in? No, they are very barren and scary and that’s what many of the classrooms at SLOHS are like. I would rather there be furniture and color in a building I’m going to be spending months in, not gray concrete walls,” said senior Juan Martinez.
There are many students whose environment doesn’t impact their learning efficiency. But still, it’s important, especially for students to recognize that teachers are actual people with personalities. At the least, a teacher decorating their classroom with things that represent themselves will create a good relationship between student and teacher.
The new cafeteria building guarantees dozens of new classrooms that will most likely follow the institutional theme. If the classrooms follow this theme it completely discards any possible chance of SLOHS remaining a unique school. A school lacking uniqueness, excitement, and originality, will indefinitely produce a continuous pattern of unhappy and lame students.
Let’s try to not make that happen Tigers! Go buy your teachers some decorations today,
