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October 26, 2023

MAP aims to strengthen bond amongst CHS students

By Peter Sblendorio

Staff Writer

One of the biggest changes at CHS this year has been the implementation of the My Advisory Program (MAP). Students of all grades meet every other Thursday to discuss pressing social issues in Coppell. 

The MAP program was instituted this year by administrators to help the underclassmen, especially the freshman, learn from the more experienced juniors and seniors about how to handle the stresses of high school. It is also aimed to strengthen the bond between the grades and to unify Coppell High School.

 Coppell administrators saw the need to institute a mentoring program because incoming freshman of past years have often been on their own to learn about what goes on at CHS. They felt it was important that the underclassmen learn the ropes from juniors and seniors that have seen it all rather than from a faculty member that never actually attended Coppell as a student. 

Although such a program is new to CHS, people behind the creation of the MAP series boast understandably high expectations on the effect it will have on the school.

 “The number one goal [for MAP] is to make connections within this large school across the grade levels,” assistant principle Laura Stout said. “[We want] to give the freshman and sophomores a chance to meet people that they can go to to ask for advice about what they need to know [about high school].” 

Students were assigned a class to go to for each meeting at the beginning of the year. Each class is comprised of several people from each grade level in order to have a healthy amount of diversity, and many students are embracing the chance to grow closer to their CHS classmates. 

“[The MAP program] is a good way for the older classes to intervene with the younger classes,” junior Tyler Hernandez said. “Since the juniors and seniors usually don’t have classes with freshman and sophomores, it is a good way for [the students] to meet each other.”

Topics discussed thus far in MAP have included the always prevalent issues of gossiping and bullying. These meetings have given students a chance to come clean about things they have witnessed and ask their peers questions. 

“[The meetings so far] have been beneficial because they allow kids to talk about stuff they’ve seen,” sophomore Chase Porter said. “I think it’s good because it shows that we do have problems in the school. [MAP] is helping to get them fixed.”

 Although one of the biggest reasons for the invention of MAP is to help the underclassmen adapt to the school, they are not the only ones that can be impacted by it. These meetings can go a long way in unifying the different grade levels at CHS and developing relationships for the future.

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