The Communicator • A Student Voice

Community High Athletic Tribe members meet weekly to share accomplishments and bond.

Community High Athletic Tribe, abbreviated as C.H.A.T., was created this past fall by Community High School’s personal fitness coach and athletic guru Robbie Stapleton.  Robbie created C.H.A.T. for any Community High student who participates in an extracurricular sport; either at Huron, Pioneer, Skyline High Schools and even including Rec & Ed sports. In contrary to the atmosphere at the larger high schools, Pioneer and Huron, which give their star athletes close to celebrity status, Community does little to recognize its students participating in athletics.  “It is great to have a place where all Community’s athletes can come together for support and advice. We are just one big jock family,” said Austin Hughes, a senior at Community.

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ALSO APPEARS IN The Communicator, Volume 24, Edition 4

Latrece Brabson and her mother preform a traditional African dance.

The Craft Theater was filled with live jazz music and a festive feast. Walking into Kraft, parents felt that National African American Parent Involvement Day was going to continue to be a strong tradition at CHS. “I still come and support my daughter,” said Antinette Williams, parent of Latrece Brabson.

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ALSO APPEARS IN The Communicator, Volume XXIV Edition 3

The military has always been a focal point in Joella Bennett’s life, whether she wanted it to be or not. Her father was stationed in Korea when he met Bennett’s mother, Seong, a Korean civilian. Bennett and her brother were born in a hospital near a military base in South Korea and she spent the first year of her life there. Now Bennett is getting involved in military life on a whole new level – but this time it’s by choice.

Joella Bennet is preparing to attend a military acamenty instead of a traditional college or university.

Bennett is preparing to attend a military academy instead of a traditional college or university.
Before she began training, the first thing Bennett had to do was choose which branch of the military she wanted to be a part of. “It was a joke between my dad and me. He always told me that the marines were jarheads, and I heard that the air force was really snooty. I think I picked the army because my dad was in the army, but I considered the navy because my grandfather was in it.”

Bennett made her final decision when she went to Washington DC for a youth leadership forum on national security last October. There she learned about how soldiers in the army can train with the navy and learn how to fly.

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ALSO APPEARS IN The Communicator, Volume XXIV Edition 2

A board meeting in the Downtownn District Library on December 2nd.

With the millage not having passed, it seems like there are new rumors created each day about what is going to happen. The most popular is the fear that Community will be closing for good. However, this particular rumor is based on very little fact. “I would be very surprised if Community closed,” said Glenn Nelson, Secretary of the AAPS Trustee, Board of Education. “One of the strengths in our [school] system is our different structures of alternative schools, such as Community, Stone, and Roberto Clemente Student Development Center.”

The Board of Education is working hard to come up with a plan to keep Community and other alternative schools open. They plan on making cuts, but as few as possible. “We can either cut salaries, or cut people, or a combination of both,” Nelson said, “It tends to be the newcomers because the teachers who have taught longer have more security. Newcomers are more vulnerable to any school cut.”

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