School Year 2011-2012 Begins Anew
After 54 years, the Luis P. Untalan Middle School campus in Barrigada was no longer safe as a school. On Jan. 12, 2012, the campus was shut down by Guam Department of Public Health for safety violations. Previously, the school's condition had prompted the Governor's Office to move the school to a Tiyan facility--where John F. Kennedy High School was located while their school was rebuilt. The shut down officially started the work for school leaders, staff and teachers to move everything salvageable from their Barrigada campus to the Tiyan campus as quickly as they could to minimize the number of makeup days that they would have to hold.
With support from the Governor's Office, Core Tec International (who owns the Tiyan facility), Department of Education, and community volunteers, the school community was able to move—classroom desks, chairs, tables, shelves, cabinets, books, computers, and everything else in the classrooms and offices—in a handful of days! Click here to see them in progress. The school was shut down on a Thursday afternoon (1-12-12), the following Wednesday (1-18-12) flatbeds began moving classroom furniture to the campus and by the following Monday (1-23-12), the school was inspected by the Department of Public Health and given the stamp of approval to open the next day. The 1,100 students of UMS now have a larger campus with more classrooms than the 60 in the previous campus where teachers often shared. Classrooms are spread out between 9 buildings—8 of which are 2-story. View the gallery below of students touring the campus. View a map here.
— Photos by Mrs. Juvy Cariño (unless indicated)
With support from the Governor's Office, Core Tec International (who owns the Tiyan facility), Department of Education, and community volunteers, the school community was able to move—classroom desks, chairs, tables, shelves, cabinets, books, computers, and everything else in the classrooms and offices—in a handful of days! Click here to see them in progress. The school was shut down on a Thursday afternoon (1-12-12), the following Wednesday (1-18-12) flatbeds began moving classroom furniture to the campus and by the following Monday (1-23-12), the school was inspected by the Department of Public Health and given the stamp of approval to open the next day. The 1,100 students of UMS now have a larger campus with more classrooms than the 60 in the previous campus where teachers often shared. Classrooms are spread out between 9 buildings—8 of which are 2-story. View the gallery below of students touring the campus. View a map here.
— Photos by Mrs. Juvy Cariño (unless indicated)