The Anglophone South School District wants to add more student voices to its decision-making.
At its monthly meeting last week, superintendent Derek O’Brien proposed creating a new body of students from the district’s high schools.
“We wanted to have a way that we could actually be meeting with students. We do it on an annual basis through the Student Representative Councils but [this] is more of having an ongoing opportunity to have a student voice at the table,” O’Brien said.
Once formed, this group can recommend someone to be the District Education Council’s student representative.
“I borrowed it from Anglophone West because they were launching something very similar so I look at this as a student leaders council,” O’Brien said.
O’Brien hopes to bring a student group together in January and give them the opportunity to participate in some DEC meetings over the winter months.
He also plans to suggest an adding alternate for the District Education Council’s student representative.
“Our student leaders are very involved in their school and their community, they are often involved in athletics and other activities in their building … they might find it daunting to know they would be expected to attend a meeting every month. I was suggesting if they had an alternate it might make it better for them so, if they knew they weren’t able to make it, an alternate could,” O’Brien said.
Under the current guidelines which govern District Education Councils. an alternate student representative is not permitted.
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