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West Jackson Middle School student council presents community service, student leadership goals to Jackson County board
Summary
Students from West Jackson Middle School told the Jackson County school board about Red Ribbon Week, community outreach and planned school events; East Jackson High School’s Onyx Middlebrooks was named Rotary student of the month.
Students from West Jackson Middle School described their community-service and school-spirit activities to the Jackson County School Board, highlighting outreach programs, anti-drug messaging and plans to boost student leadership.
“My name is Jack Swope at Wolden, and I’m, the treasurer of Black Jackson Middle School student council,” one student said, introducing the council’s officers and roles. Presenters explained Red Ribbon Week: “Red Ribbon Week is held during October, encourages students to be alcohol and drug free,” and said the council creates themed dress-up days and posters to promote participation and unity.
The students also detailed collaboration with the PTO on back-to-school events, saying the council helps run concession stands and prize booths at Splash Bash and WestFest. The presenters said Splash Bash is usually held in August and WestFest occurs in the fall, and described other outreach such as reading to elementary students during Read Across America and cheering on school athletic events.
Assistant Principal Laura Drums thanked the students’ two sponsors, Miss Porter and Miss Campbell, and noted the group performed on stage during the summer: according to the presentation, the students sang in July for an audience of roughly 10,000 and shared a stage with Foreigner. Drums introduced Rotary’s student-of-the-month for the district, Onyx Middlebrooks of East Jackson High School, who the assistant principal said is dual-enrolling at UGA and active in AP coursework and student leadership.
Onyx Middlebrooks accepted the recognition and praised her teacher: “Miss Frederick is usually the first to arrive and the last to leave. She speaks about her students with the same amount of affection as she does her family,” Middlebrooks said, adding that she hopes to be “an influential person to other youth” as her teacher has been.
The presentation concluded with an invitation for questions and a thank-you to the board for supporting student programs. The board then moved on to regular business.
