The back of Long Beach Poly is getting a brand new makeover beginning this school year. The track is being remodeled, and the bungalows are moving to make space for an outdoor pool.
According to Poly track coach Crystal Irving the construction will start after the football season is over. The new track will be an all weather track with a turf field that will take 4 months to complete. During those 4 months a lot of adjustments will be made.
Since the track will be under construction, Poly’s track team will not be able to practice, and it will affect the PE classes as well.
For practices, Irving stated that practice will be held at multiple spots including Signal Hill, Browning High School, the beach, and Chittick Field Park.
“I think it is amazing that we are getting something we should have had a long time ago,” Irving stated.
The track’s remodel not only affects track but also soccer and any sport that relies on it to run and condition.
Along with the track, teachers in the bungalows are having to switch classes because the bungalows are where the new outdoor pool will be located.
One of the teachers from the bungalows that has already moved is Kristin Quevedo, an Algebra 2 and AP Statistics teacher. Originally in P-7 Quevedo was transferred to room 412.
Quevedo expressed that for her the move is stressful due to the fact that on top of moving and getting everything arranged, she has to make sure that the class is moving smoothly. Along with the stress, Quevedo said she misses teaching in P-7, because all the math teachers were close together so it made it easier for them to collaborate.
In the end, all the teachers in the bungalows are going to be moving throughout the year, and their new classes that they will be going to will be permanent ones until reconstruction is done.
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