As a goal for the 2010-2011 school year, the CHS administration has decided to focus on enhancing supervision in classrooms, hallways, cafeterias and around campus. Principal John Williams said that new policies have been placed in order to help maintain safety and security here.

“Every year as we wrap up, we always look to see things we could do differently,” Williams said. “As we talked about this year, we saw a real opportunity to increase our supervision, especially in areas that we haven’t supervised very well.”

Williams said the new focus on supervision is not a result of bad behavior. “It’s not that something was broken, but if you don’t strive to get better, you’re going to get worse,” he said. “Ultimately, our responsibility [as administrators] is to be safe and secure here.”

In order to maintain and increase safety on the trail between the stadium and the school, a police officer is now required to observe the trail from 5 to 7 a.m. In addition to the new “physical presence,” Williams said that the lights lining the trail have also been altered. Williams said that the bulbs are now brighter and “provide a larger radius of illumination.”

Administrators are now becoming a presence in cafeterias, according to Williams. In previous years, only lunch aids, consisting mainly of bus drivers, were required to monitor students in cafeterias. “It’s not like we felt like ‘we have to supervise our cafeterias more,’” Williams said. “We need to be, administratively, where the kids are. It’s a good time to be around them and say ‘hi’ to them.”

Williams said that new changes are not any more drastic than previous years. “I don’t want us to lose this culture of trust that we have here,” he said. “I think that a lot of [students] behave and do what they’re supposed to do because they know that we trust them.” By Sara Rogers <[email protected]>