School Board Work Session

Speaker 9Fairfax County the way that they selected there is a student advisory council and vote for kids that pull from every school and those kids choose their student rep so it is not like a big election or anything like that as far as the city of Fairfax and this is in our policy manual which is important to you have to talk about it the policy manual says that the student rep is a one-year They do July to June. They are Fairfax High students. They can be a city or county resident. Either one is fine. We've had some debate on that for a while, but can be a city or county resident. It is a rising senior. They need to have a 3.0 cumulative GPA, be in good academic and behavioral standing. As far as our policy manual, the responsibilities really is that they come to a regular school board meeting with an update.

it used to be just just Fairfax High School and then it was expanded to now all four schools and so the student rep emails the principals about a week before gets some updates and then creates a meeting for I mean an update for us we have had some challenges in the past with that with they're emailing the principals too late or they're not conveying exactly what the principals were saying you know we'll get a call from this will say like I did not say that so there is a little bit of mentorship with that they then send their report to a meet and to Barbara the goal is to have them sent the week before I think we can safely say that's not always the case but you know right so we'll talk about that also in the policy manual is that they are to do a

talk we can talk about that if you want to continue with that if you do we do have to take it out of the policy manual though they are to be meeting with the board chair and superintendent regularly also that's in the policy manual we can we can debate that. If we talk about the SAT kids, so the SAT, the history is that came from when Dr. Bajardo became the superintendent. It was a transition council. She then just took out the transition and became superintendent advisory team. It is made up of parents, students, staff members, community members. They meet quarterly. We have had Catherine Johnson students on that committee in the past. I would say, again, various rates of success as far as are they able and mature enough

to really grasp some of the things and have they been able to contribute maybe what others have. Right now, we have three students. We've had anywhere from one to five students on the advisory team. Right now, we have three. How chosen? to do an election where they and this is for Fairfax we used to do an election where they were on the regular spring ballot when they chose the other SGA officers two years ago Fairfax High changed that I know I didn't know that we had it in her policy manual they changed it without letting us know which is fine because the reasoning behind that was that they felt that because there isn't anyone at Fairfax to really oversee it that in there I'm paraphrasing here in their minds it was kind of a popularity contest and they were

It's our decision, but this is what's in our policy manual.