When he is not strolling the hallways and checking doors to keep the school secure, new school security guard Douglas Joyner, is writing plays and assisting students.

Joyner has been working in education since 2000, and he graduated from college with an English degree. Joyner taught 9th and 10th grade English classes in North Carolina for several years before moving to Prince George county in D.C. He also has worked at several juvenile locker facilities and prisons. After getting out of the classroom he started working with kids who had autism, and kids who needed an extra bit of care and patience.

”As I got older, I said, ‘Oh, time to slow it down a little bit,’” Joyner said.

He then transitioned to working with kids who have in-school suspension, and working in security. This is his second year as a school security guard, and his first year as a security guard in Chesterfield. 

Security and education are not the only careers he has pursued; in his free time Joyner enjoys writing plays. One of his most loved plays is called “Where is my love?”. It tells a story about an openly gay and religious woman who loves god and goes to church but constantly gets belittled due to her sexuality. It is a play about love, acceptance, and religion. 

“It’s our job to love everybody regardless of their proclivities,” Joyner said.

Joyner believes that people have their journey that they need to take and he has his own journey he needs to take, and it is his job to love the people around him. 

With all that he does, Joyner wants to be able to leave a positive impact on students. With all that he has seen he knows how this generation loves their freedom and how easy it is for this generation to end up in prison. 

“We want to keep them from going that way,” Joyner said. “Jail and Prison are two separate things, and [not] everybody is built for that.” 

He wants to be able to save people from themselves and from going down the wrong road.

“I’m not my brother’s keeper, I’m not my human beings keeper,” Joyner said. “I [would] want somebody to do it for me and I would want somebody to do it for my kids as well.” 

Joyner has spent years helping people to become their best selves and go down the right path in life, and he hopes to continue to do so in his first year here at Clover Hill High School.