From elementary to high school, security guard forms relationships at work
December 15, 2016
Central alumni Orlando Clayton recently joined the school’s security team in October after being a security guard at Oak Valley Elementary. Clayton has been working as a security officer at multiple schools in OPS and other areas for the past 24 years, and is happy to be working at Central because he went here for high school and feels as if he is coming back home. He enjoys being a part of the schools staff because of the opportunity to interact with the student body and to see the diversity that is here.
As security guards have many different occurrences and disputes they have to deal with daily, such as fights and students misbehaving, Clayton says that the most common issue that he comes across is being lied to by students after them being sent out of class. Which causes problems because it makes it hard to work with students and to talk to them about the problem that occurred in their class. In his time of working here, nothing out of that norm has taken place yet.
Clayton seems to already have close relationships with some of Central’s students, which adds on to how he values his job and actually enjoys doing what he does. By forming relationships and showing that he cares about his job and the people he works with, students may feel more comfortable in talking to the security guards here. By making students more comfortable he is helping people of that age group and making the school a more enjoyable, healthy environment for the students knowing that the security officers present every day are people they can rely on, joke with and trust. Especially since security is who is called when students are acting inappropriately in class and may need someone to communicate with after those instances.
Clayton hopes to get along with all the students here at Central, and says to “be optimistic about your future because no one knows what the future holds.”