Student council reports Make-A-Wish fundraiser and recommends stricter classroom phone policy enforcement
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Summary
Student council outlined a weeklong Make-A-Wish fundraising schedule with partnering restaurants and presented survey results showing most students oppose stricter phone rules; they recommended stricter early enforcement measures and proposed teacher phone pouches and an escalating penalty structure.
A student council representative reported on an upcoming Make-A-Wish fundraiser and presented student survey results and suggestions on school phone policy enforcement.
The student speaker said the Make-A-Wish campaign will raise funds for an 11-year-old student and listed school events and partnering restaurants: a bake sale and assembly kickoff on Monday, karaoke and trivia night on Wednesday, a beaded-necklace fundraiser on Thursday and a book sale on Friday; the student also said local restaurants — Cafe Rio (Monday), Chipotle (Wednesday), Mont Pizza (Thursday) and El Chabasso (Friday) — will donate a share of sales during specific after-school hours.
On phone policy, the student reported 576 survey responses: 84.6 percent of respondents said cell phone use during class is not a problem; 81 percent opposed a schoolwide phone policy; when asked about couch-time or seating-based punishments, results were close (52 percent yes, 47 percent no). Student council recommended providing teachers with phone pouches to hang on classroom walls, using phone placement to assist attendance and applying escalating grade-based consequences for repeated violations (example offered: loss of points increasing by quarter). The student council speaker said some teachers already enforce strict phone policies (pouches and point deductions) and recommended starting with firm enforcement so students adapt early.
Board members thanked the student for the report and asked staff to consider alignment between written policy and classroom practice; the superintendent asked student council to develop a recommendation for the new high school principal on how to better align practice with district policy.
