A lockerr oom to a sports team is even more than just a space to store sports equipment. It is a place for teams to bond before and after practices and games.
The locker rooms are the center of all sports during the season. Locker rooms are places to take time out of the day in between the stressful school schedule and hectic sports season.
It is a place for kids to be immature and relax. A place to nap before school in the morning, or a place to finish last minute homework. If you ask anyone who has participated in sports they will tell you that the locker room is the center of their universe during the sports season. Which is why it is upsetting that winter sports will be without locker rooms due to construction.
The winter sports will be left without a locker room for the whole season due to the construction going on in this part of the school. This may not seem like a problem because the sports will be able to use the PE locker rooms, but all the upper classmen will be left without locker space because they no longer take PE. Also, because of the loss of parking spaces, athletes will no longer be able to store equipment in cars that are easily accessible to the building. The PE locker rooms will be flooded with two more sports that will be using it constantly. These locker rooms are already hard to take care of without the addition of these two sports.
There is a simple solution to this problem. Renovate the locker rooms in the summer when there are no sports going on. This will ensure that the locker rooms are completely cleared out before the renovations start.
Moreover, it will not interfere with any sports and will keep the PE locker rooms from being completely overloaded with people. The construction keeps taking out chunks and chunks of our school that are inconvenient, but this change just seems like a lack of logistics.
Also, if the PE locker rooms are going to be taken out in the summer, which would make the most sense, then it would be easier to take out that whole section all at once.
Rather than breaking it up piece by piece and interfering with all the other facilities in that area, it would make sense to renovate it all at one time. But as we all know very well these renovations throw screwballs into all of our lives, and some cannot be avoided.