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Crown Point High School 1500 S. Main St.

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Sept. 30, 2013 Vol. 78 Issue 1

Crown Point, IN 46307

inklings@cps.k12.in.us

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Students, faculty adjust to numerous changes throughout the school BY OLIVIA ELSTON TINA WINFREY

associate editors

Getting used to a new routine has always been true of the freshmen as they moved up from the middle schools; however, upperclassmen have had to do some transitioning of their own to a school day that is often unfamiliar to those of the past.

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One of the new changes implemented this year is CP 2.0. Under this program, freshmen are required to bring a computer device every day to perform their school work. “We had 150 9th grade students pilot a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program in 2012-13,” principal Chip Pettit said. “We had planned to roll out a one-to-one initiative in 2013-14 if the pilot went reasonably well. It did go well, but that isn't to say that we aren't learning as we go.” A variety of small issues comes along with the whole freshmen class now using CP 2.0. “We have hiccups every day, and that’s one of the reasons why we didn't want to do a full scale roll out, with all 2,700 students at the same time,” Pettit said. “At times we have connectivity issues; at times we have student sign-on issues, link issues, all things that you deal with when you’re working in a wireless ene ross th As you travel ac vironment.” e literally Freshman principal Mark country there ar riations of Gianfermi has had a large thousands of va thought (the part in helping out with these schedules. We now) was e av h issues as well as assisting the e w le u sched lds. or w h freshmen with problems ot b of t the bes with the program itself. cipal “The freshmen are the Assistant Prin mott first class that is required Robert McDer to have a computer and I am the freshmen principal, therefore I inherited the initiative to start off (CP 2.0),” Gianfermi said. “Under my umbrella, those students are being

required to be the first ones to have this (program).” This school year freshmen students have been doing a variety of classwork and homework through Brainhoney on their devices. Freshman Lauren Massow has negative opinions on the CP 2.0 program. “I don’t really like CP 2.0,” freshman Lauren Massow said. “If my Wi-Fi goes out at home I can’t do my homework because it’s all on the computer.” In contrast to Massow, freshman Haley Barmwell likes having her homework on Brainhoney. “You get to redo your homework if you got it wrong, and you get more time to do it,” Barmwell said. Even with some mixed responses, Pettit still believes CP 2.0 will benefit the school as a whole. He looks forward to seeing more results as the year progresses and even further into next school year.

DRUG TESTING Another of the changes implemented this year includes the random drug testing program affecting all students in extracurricular activities and student drivers. Drug testing also has a large impact on the athletic program. “It gives the student athletes a reason to say no,” athletic director Bill Dorulla said. “For athletes (the consequences) are exactly what is written in the athletic code, so if they test positive what will happen is they will lose 25% of their season. Then they are put back into the pool for next month to get retested.” Dorulla believes that this program will benefit the athletes, even though it is still early in the year. See Changes on page 3

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