Being a student board liaison means more than just attending meetings. It’s about representing your classmates, understanding how decisions are made, and finding your voice in a room full of adults. This year, junior Wyeth Angus and senior Bradley Dunn stepped into the role, and they’re already learning what it means to be part of the school board meetings.
“You go to the board meetings,” Angus said. “Me and Bradley sit on the board with them. They always ask us a few questions to get involved. I’ve only gone to one so far, so I’m kind of figuring out what my role is there.”
It is Angus’s first time being a board liaison, so he’s still getting used to being a part of the meetings, but he's already thinking about how to make a bigger impact.
“It seems like the standard in years past has been that we don’t discuss a lot on the board,” Angus said. “I want to be more active in the conversation, which I think they’re open to.”
He also shared that the board meeting on September 8th was packed with updates and introductions, giving him a better understanding of what the board meetings tend to look like.
“There were a lot of new staff introduced, like Ms. McKee, our new vice principal,” Angus said. “They also talked about the KLAA schools possibly joining the SEC conference. The superintendent gave a little spiel about what’s going on.”
Dunn, the students’ other liaison, also shared his perspective on the same meeting and how he took the opportunity to speak up about student interests.
“I mentioned the phone ban,” Dunn said. “I mentioned Minga, I showed the school board how Minga works. They didn’t know, which I thought was interesting.”
One of the more controversial topics this year has been the school’s new phone policy. Dunn knows students are frustrated, but he sees and understands both sides.
“People had their phones for everything last year, so I get it,” he said. “But at the end of the day, I don’t think it impacts the classroom that much. The only time I think it matters is Bulldog Block, because it’s your own independent study time, so we should spend that however we would like,” Dunn said.
Angus essentially echoes and reinforces the points that Dunn had previously explained and clarified in regard to the phone policy.
“We brought up the phone policy in our little section,” Angus said. “It was a good discussion. I think that we got the board members thinking about it for sure.”
