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Board members raise proposal to add a nonvoting student member
Summary
Several board members proposed creating a nonvoting student seat selected by student leaders to provide direct student input; discussion was preliminary and no policy or procedure was adopted.
A board member proposed adding a nonvoting student member to the Montgomery County Board of Education to provide direct feedback from students.
The board member said the idea is to select a student from among class officers or student-body presidents so the student representative would have a peer-elected mandate and could bring classroom and school-level perspectives to board meetings. Other board members who had observed student representatives in other districts said the practice helped students share their experiences and allowed the board and superintendent to ask questions of a student in the room.
Several board members spoke in support, noting the district previously had a student representative and that adopting a formal nonvoting seat could increase student engagement and transparency. The discussion was exploratory: the board asked the director and staff to consider options, but no policy, timeline or formal vote was recorded on the transcript.
