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Juniors’ LifeSkills training postponed

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Carmel High juniors will participate in a judgment improvement workshop planned for Nov. 19 after the program was postponed twice due to student, parent and teacher dissatisfaction with its scheduling.

 

The Botvin LifeSkills program will be delivered in age-appropriate iterations to students grades three through eight throughout Carmel Unified School District, as well as to students in health class at CHS. Junior year will be the last year that LifeSkills will be delivered.

 

LifeSkills is designed to promote improved decision-making, time management and communication during and after high school, counselor Jennifer Goodbody says.

 

“These really are skills for life,” Goodbody stresses. “There’s a misconception that this is a class about drug and alcohol awareness, and it isn’t.”

Science building construction set to start Nov. 1

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After a year of debate about the design and location of the new CHS science department building, construction is set to start Nov. 1.

The essential design will include three state-of-the-art classrooms and a shared prep room, but the official blueprint is still being re-drawn.


Last year, $2.6 million was allocated for the new science wing, and the hired architects asked the Carmel High science teachers what they would like in their new classrooms.

Editors welcome readers to re-discover The Sandpiper

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When you think of a Sandpiper, what comes to mind? Perhaps the image of a hippie playing the pan flute on the beach appears, or maybe a playful shorebird comes to mind.


According to Danny Funt, former chief editor of The Sandpiper, the student newspaper is “an important voice” for Carmel.


The Sandpiper is the voice that reported on important issues like students stranded by a bridge collapse in Big Sur, the voice that illuminated controversial topics like racism at CHS and the voice that revealed campus supervisor Don Perry’s mysterious past.

 

Cafeteria policy doesn’t stomach well with students

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The bagels at Carmel High School have gotten smaller, and the hope is that the waistlines of American children will too.

 

Heavily advocated by Michelle Obama and signed into law in December 2010, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is the federal government’s attempt to crack down on childhood obesity in America and its implementation can be seen at CHS and other public schools across the nation for the 2012-13 school year.


School cafeterias are now required to meet federal guidelines for weekly and daily serving sizes of fruits, vegetables—including dark greens, beans and peas, and red-orange vegetables—meats and milk, says Denise McGregor, director of food services for the Carmel Unified School District.

 

Wi-Fi Wi-Fixed amid complaints

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The school year began with a problem as obtrusive as the beige metal cabinets that carried it: the new Wi-Fi system was unreliable, hindering instruction as teachers wasted time each day troubleshooting their classes’ computers.


In the summer of 2011, the district spent roughly $50,000 installing a new, more seamless wireless network to replace the old system, which was made up of stand-alone networks in each classroom more suited to household use. Now after a year of modifications, the new network appears to finally be running smoothly.


“It has been flawless,” says English teacher Barbara Steinberg, who frequently uses Wi-Fi with her students. “Since they’ve fixed it, I’ve had no problems.”