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Downingtown board highlights student-life committee, student feedback shaping wellness work

Downingtown Area School District Board of Directors · November 13, 2025
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Board and student representatives described the student-life committee as a daytime forum for student voices on mental health, vaping, cell-phone policy and AI; superintendent and staff said meeting summaries and raw data are shared with administrators and that meetings aim to produce actionable changes.

Justin Brown, who chairs the district student-life committee, told the Downingtown Area School District Board of Directors on Nov. 12 that the committee’s purpose is to gather students’ “lived experiences” during the school day and to convert that feedback into immediate and longer-term changes.

“Every single week, I have the pleasure to see new faces,” Brown said. He described sessions held during advisory or lunch-and-learn times at high schools and middle schools, where…

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