Report card time can be very stressful for some of the CHS student body, and this past marking period made it even harder for some students.

Change is a familiar concept for CHS this year; with all the changes to the lunch menus, technology policies, and new rules that have been implemented, it’s no real surprise that more changes have come.

For as long as most CHS students can remember, report cards have always been distributed during homeroom, but this is no longer the case.  Instead, report cards have been emailed home to the student’s parents.

According to the Director of Digital Learning and Technology Stephanie Douglas, the reason the high school has changed to this new process is to “ensure that parents receive the report card in a timely manner.”

By not printing each student’s report card, the school district is saving money on toner and paper, which helps support CHS’s greener living ideals.

Junior Debbie Stanback thinks that emailing report cards home is a good idea because it’s more eco-friendly but she said, “I didn’t even know they were being emailed home until my mom told me. I wish I would have had a heads up about this beforehand.”

Junior Haley Scott thinks that emailing the report cards are a good idea because “it helps save trees and our environment. Not to mention it helps insure that parents see their kid’s grades.”

Though this change has perplexed some students, Douglas said she thinks “the effect on CHS students is minimal [and this process] simply takes the information formatted on our standard report card and delivers it electronically to families.”