House System
As of the 2007–2008 school year, all high schools in the Independence School District underwent the “house system”. The house system is an academic classification of administrators, faculty, and students into different units and in Chrisman’s case, five houses. The house system was designed to make everyday procedures and fiscal activities easier to carry out, such as faculty meetings, parties and rewards activities, and individual student penalizing. At the end of the 2009-2010 year, it was announced the school would only have four houses, (former houses 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). In the fall of 2010 the school adopted bear names for the houses. House One became the Grizzly House. House Two became the Panda House. House Three became the Kodiak House. And House Five became the Polar House. House Four was dissolved at the end of the 2009-2010 school year.
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