By Katherine Chen & Kelly Lee
Website Editor & Staff Writer
Administration Office
This year, the front office and attendance office moved from the 300 building to the media center. The goal of the renovation is to make the administrative building more accessible for parents and visitors since the entrance is now directly on Lemon Avenue.
“Let’s say you’re a parent: you would check in at the gate and you wouldn’t really know where to go,” Principal Elena Li said. “We’re trying to make it easier. The main goal of the front office being there is to help parents and families.”
Administration moved the attendance clerks, receptionist, secretaries and district translator into the new office. The school also installed a “Temple City High School” sign above the entrance of the new office.
One reason for moving the office was security upgrades. Before, visitors walked into the building to check in. Visitors must now check in using an outside buzzer and state a reason for the visit. Secretaries unlock the door from inside after visitors buzz in. The system includes a camera and microphone.
“It’s a nice way to keep any unwarranted guests out from our campus,” Li said. “We were the only school site without the doorbell feature because we didn’t have a building for visitors to enter. It was just a gate.”
Trainer’s Room
Along with the modernized football field, there are plans to build a new athletic trainer’s room. Currently, the room is smaller than that of most high schools, which limits the amount of space for Athletic Trainer and Sports Medicine teacher Anthony Garcia and his student trainers to provide treatment to injured athletes.
“The trainers room is a little small, and it can be difficult when a lot of students need to be treated because there’s not enough tables to help them all at once,” senior student trainer Katelyn Chung said. “It also becomes tight as there becomes less room to move around and it takes longer to treat everyone.”
Plans include building the new trainer’s room next to the football field to be more accessible to athletes practicing on the field. The district architect incorporated two student ideas into the design. In a group project, the students designed their own trainer’s rooms and made models.
One of the students’ ideas was for the new trainer’s room to contain a retractable wall to accommodate the needs of student athletes. The two rooms will be able to combine to provide more space for students and athletes. The current dimensions for the facility are 20 x 40 feet for the lab and 35 x 40 feet for the classroom.
“We will have more equipment, tables, space and supplies,” Garcia said. “The Advanced and Clinical Practicum classes are currently the largest that they have been. This allows them to experience one-on-one time with the athlete. Quality treatment is always the goal.”
The completion date for the athletic trainer’s room is yet to be announced.