Have you made the comparison yet between an average high school and a dictatorship?
Though we are under the American flag, a high school doesn't wish for you to actually partake in its running, it makes the choices for you.
Just a few examples: My school decided to spend about 15,000 dollars on a thumbprint system in order to make the luchlines move faster. We also spent thousands of dollars bying new ford fusions. Now the school doesn't even have adequate money to buy paper! My point is that the students had no say in how the money was spent. I personally would have used the money for the thumbprints and funded it to more textbooks, and lab equpment for science classes.
The concept of student government doesn't really seem to go through either. The student government gets to decide the theme for prom, but when a real issue comes up like allowing students with cars to leave the campus for lunch, the board flatly denies it.
I think that students and there parents should be allowed to hae their say in how money should be spent for the school, and the regulations of the students. (Why aren't we allowed to wear hats?)
How much control should school boards be allowed to have?
You are right? Some days it seems like school boards do not even care about how the decisions they make impact people? It's like they lack a gene for compassion or something. I went to a school where they had a lot of similar problems, and they couldn;t afford text books an teachers were even having to buy supplies out of their own pocket. I mean what happened to America being the land of Opportunity?
You are so right. The schools don't allow us to make decisions about how we want the money spent for teh school that we actually attend and have to be at. People make teh decisions on what they think is best for the school and us but really only we know whats best for us and we should have a say!
No one under 18 gets to decide anything; why should school be any different?
Personally, I'm glad the students don't have a say. There are a few who care about textbooks and supplies. But most don't.
There's a reason they only want "adults" to vote.
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You are the Voice of the Childwen of the Revowution! [Toulouse, Moulin Rouge]
I don't think that's fair. Most students do care about what goes on in their school, and where the money is being spent. Don't forget that there are seniors who are 18 and don't get a say in there school government.
If you're 18, you have the right to vote for the bills that are passed that give money for certain things. You can also vote for what those bills go for (ie if there's a bond going for books and technology but you don't think the school needs books or technology, you don't vote on that bond.)
Maybe you have a school of over-achieving people who actually care about their future and well being and that of others, but in all the high schools I've been to, I wouldn't give the kids the right to walk down the street by themselves let alone vote.
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You are the Voice of the Childwen of the Revowution! [Toulouse, Moulin Rouge]
Voting for government purposes is different than voting for school. I'm not suggesting that we give the students complete control over what the school decides to do, most likely that would result in anarchy. I suggest that the school system give the students a bigger voice, let the supervisors and school board members know what the students want out of their school. Like you said, most students could care less about what the school does for educational purposes, but the ones who do are being let down. The ones who actually want to learn in school aren't able because they can't let the "higher-ups" what needs to be done to fix it. Bigger voice, but not complete control is what I suggest.
I do understand and like that idea.
most students could care less, but some deserve a say.
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You are the Voice of the Childwen of the Revowution! [Toulouse, Moulin Rouge]
I can't say that I can relate because I go to a private school and have all my life, but I do know what you're talking about. Even in my school, students don't get too much of a say in things, however, at my school, the parents do get a fair say in everything. In my opinion, students should have a say in things besides just prom and other such events (I don't even go to prom). Students are the ones that are receiving all the equipment, textbooks, and, hopefully, knowledge that comes from the school's funding. There are many areas in which the public school system could be improved.
I know what you're talking about! My school is full of mold, which during certain times of the year really gets to me, as I'm allergic. Also, half of the second floor doesn't have real walls or doors. My AP English class is subject to hearing the AP English 11 class next door, whatever loud-mouthed bunch of students happen to be in the other room adjacent to ours, AND a theater class right down the hall. We can't hear ourselves think half the time, and if the school board would decide we need real walls, there wouldn't be so much of a problem.
So what does the school do with the funding? Buying prizes like iPods for the freshman as part of the new "Freshman Academy" designed to take responsibility from the students and treat them like kindergarteners and replacing every chalkboard in the classrooms that do have real walls with white boards that never come clean. Ever.
I sense a bit of a problem there...
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
My parents wonder why I refuse to get involved in student government. My response: "I'm not so good at party planning."
T.k.
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You are the Voice of the Childwen of the Revowution! [Toulouse, Moulin Rouge]
its is all about them (the school) being the people in control.
my dad sometimes doesn't let me drive, he drives me for no reason, just because he "wants to".
It's the masculinity issue, of being the "main man".
and it sucks. . .