As students walk into the building on the first Monday morning back from spring break, a shocking surprise is waiting for them inside.
This surprise was none other than the changing of lights; this shocked everyone.
The dim lights that once lit the hallways of the school, which allowed students to slowly wake up throughout the day, have been replaced by a sickening reflection of the sun.
“I really hate the lights because they’re like the lights before gave prison vibes, but now, it’s literally like an insane asylum,” Gabrielle Eastin said.
How on earth are past seniors going to recognize their school with these new, and ‘improved’, lights that were once a remarkable thing?
“I dislike the lights,” Malachi Thurecht said. “Personally, I like it a little dark because of the nostalgia. Now it feels weird and a lot brighter here.”
The bright lights are not aesthetically pleasing and can make a bad day worse for many students.
“It looks like a hospital or like an insane asylum,” A’Mya Perez said. “It’s not pretty. Like if someone didn’t do their makeup well that day, it does them dirty.”
Although these bright new lights may be blinding our eyes each morning, the reason they were put in may be better for the school.
The dim lights that had greeted us each morning were power sucking monsters.
Those lights that had been draining our power were draining the school’s wallet, as well.
There are over 50 classrooms in the entire school; many have at least 12 lights that must be lit for almost 200 days of school.
The school has to pay for more than 1,200 hours worth of light, not to mention any time after school hours or during the summer.
With this exponential amount of lights throughout the school, over 600 lights, it is necessary to find an effective way to save money.
Changing the prehistoric lights that helped the dinosaurs read may just allow the school to save a little more money to put towards academics.
Although it would have been nice not to have sun-powered lights, it may make some room for something else.
However, it is put into thought why these specific blinding lights were chosen, since cost may not have been the reason.
Could these lights also be used to push productivity through students, or maybe they are less harmful to the environment, unlike the last lights?
Since white lights are known for creating superior visibility over warm lights, it may be helpful to the case of sight.
However, since most teachers have to turn off 50% of the lights to use the projector now, this change seems to be useless and inefficient.
In addition, it is not just the students who have an issue with the lights; many of the teachers have had issues with the brightness of the lights, as well.
“They are too bright,” Shelley Asher said.
However, many of the teachers have suggested that these new lights would not be so bad even if they were just a little dimmer.
“The lights are too bright, so if they dim them, they would be fine,” Beth Letzig said.
Luckily for some of the teachers, throughout the school, the lights were never really in or out of the way because of the use of lamps or LED lights in classrooms.
But it is still a fact that in any of the remaining classrooms (that do not use a different source of light), the lights seem to be more in the way than anything else.
For whatever reason, it has been concluded by both teachers and students that they are too bright to be accepted.
Yet, look on the bright side, most teachers are turning their lights off for prolonged periods of time, which creates a similar effect to the original dim lights that are finally receiving recognition.
