CISD’s high enrollment leads to extreme crowdedness

By Seth Slover Staff Writer If you haven’t already noticed, the halls at CHS are slightly crowded.  If you consider yourself intuitive whatsoever, then you undoubtedly picked up on that not-so-subtle hint of underexaggeration. But don’t feel too bad for yourself, because every other student enrolled in Coppell schools is in the same boat.  Coppell superintendent Dr. Jeff Turner writes a weekly news brief called the Supt.’s Scoop.  In his “scoop”, readers learn that CISD’s enrollment is up 400 students since the last day of school last year. Furthermore, according to the superintendent, this is the largest enrollment ever in the Coppell School district.  10,575 students.  Read it again.  10,575 students.  I’d like to give a big shout-out…

Status update: Awkward situations for teachers, students

Rebecca Neumann Staff Writer Let’s face it: Facebook isn’t just for teens anymore. More and more adults have begun to join the trend after realizing its potential as a great tool for keeping in touch with people. According to iStrategyLabs, the 35-54 year-old demographic more than doubled in 2009. So it isn’t hard to believe that teachers would have Facebook pages too, nor that many students would request to be a teacher’s Facebook friend, either because they like that teacher or because they are simply curious. However, some teachers, such as English teacher Michael Vergien, refuse to add their students as Facebook friends until after they’ve left their class or graduated. “It’s really not that…