Clear Creek ISD will officially restart its Watch D.O.G.S.—or Dads of Great Students—program in the 2022-23 school year to boost student safety in its elementary schools.
Watch D.O.G.S. is a national school-based program aimed at incorporating more positive male role models in school environments. The volunteer program invites father figures to sign up for campus visits to help students and ensure uniform security coverage of CCISD elementary schools, which have patrolling school liaison officers. Watch D.O.G.S. participants are not armed.
“It doesn’t take a tragedy for the district to think of the safety of our students; that’s first and foremost,” CCISD board of trustees President Jay Cunningham said.
At CCISD, Watch D.O.G.S. is organized by each school’s parent-teacher association, not the district, and therefore not all of CCISD’s 27 elementary schools feature the program as not every school has its own PTA, said Jonathan Cottrell, board trustee and Watch D.O.G.S. participant.
