With the science rooms being remodeled this summer, senior murals will be taken down indefinitely and senior hall will have a different look coming into the 2016-2017 school year.

The idea came about after the school board and Superintendent Douglas Domeracki looked at a the science wing at Elk Grove High School.

“They liked a lot of the design so they wanted to replicate it here. It becomes a more complicated problem than it’s worth taking the murals down and then having to rehang them somewhere else in the school. We don’t have room for them either,” Principal Moses Cheng said.

The tradition of hanging murals started in 1993 and senior classes have created physical representation of their year ever since. All senior murals were built on plywood making it difficult to remove in one piece.

“You’re knocking down walls with sledgehammers. Construction guys are not very careful,” Cheng said.

Yet some students and staff members are upset.

“I was very disappointed to hear that my class wasn’t going to be able to design a mural. In the future I hope student art is hung back up on the walls, displayed in the cafeteria and student activity center, as well as up on the school’s website. It is necessary that creativity is pushed along with academic study,” senior Fallon Itrich said.

Students and staff have also said that the murals liven up with walls which would otherwise be blank.

“They’re taking the first mural down and putting it in my classroom. I’m sad to see that tradition go,” social studies teacher Candace Fikis said.

Since the school has gone one-to-one, some students have come up with the idea of a digital mural.

“If they don’t put the murals up then maybe have a monitor with pictures of the murals that scroll through. That could be a solution,” junior Nick Bedore said.