The new freshmen have a new life and home at the CHS. However, new homes mean to some people a different route and different transportation to school. Freshmen are driven to school by a parent or someone they carpool with, but some of them also bike or walk to school. They all have their reasons for the ways they come to school.

Freshman Claire Waldman carpools with her friend Christina Krucylak.

“I carpool because of my parents’ and Christina’s parents’ schedules,” Claire Waldman said. “It’s just easier for all of us.”

Waldman also carpools because it is more friendly towards the environment.

“Instead of using two cars, you only use one,” she said.

Freshman Charlotte Reed also carpools with her neighbor.

“Carpooling is good for me because then I don’t sleep in,” Reed said. “There’s a reason for me to get up this way.”

She also carpools with her neighbors, so she can get to know them more, but for some people, carpooling has disadvantages as well.

“Traffic is a disadvantage to carpooling,” Waldman said. “One of the places that has traffic is the intersection of Wydown and Clayton Road… It slows us down.”

Reed also finds some disadvantages to carpooling also.

“I have to get up early which means I have to sleep early and sacrifice my free time,” Reed said.

Another way freshmen get to school is biking. Freshman Abraham Bluestone gets to school on bike.

“I like the bike generally,” Bluestone said. “It’s a little bit of exercise to start off the morning… and it’s fun.”

Bluestone also knows that there are some disadvantages to biking though.

“It takes longer to bike to school than to go by car,” he said. “If the bike breaks down, it’s also a problem.”

When in bad weather, he also has carpool as a backup plan.  He also uses this plan if his bike breaks down.

Some of the freshmen also really want to be able to drive themselves to school.

“It would be convenient for the family if I was able to drive a car,” Waldman said.

Reed also thinks that it will be nice when she can drive a car.

“I could go whenever I wanted to go to school,” Reed said.

Freshman Sarah Aiello also believes that being able to drive herself to school would be the option for her.
“My dad drives me with my sisters to school,” Aiello said. “So I can be late if my sister’s being slow.”

Aiello believes that driving herself to school will give her more choices.

“I can leave when I want, go where I want, and I can drive whom I want,” Aiello said.

Some freshmen are somewhat afraid of driving cars at the same time.

“I don’t want to crash a car,” Reed said. “I can sort of see myself hitting a pole.”

Driving cars and having more freedom also brings up the level of responsibility. Aiello also is afraid of getting in a wreck while driving a car.

“It will stretch my responsibility,” Aiello said. “I can probably handle it, but still, I am worried about it.”

Bluestone takes it a different way though.

“It’ll hurt the environment if I drive a car,” Bluestone said. “And, I have to pay for the gas to run the car.”