Lifetime Citizen Portal Access — AI Briefings, Alerts & Unlimited Follows
Parent Brian Rupp urges board to support districtwide student leadership team
Loading...
Summary
Brian Rupp asked the board to create and enforce a policy making the student leadership team an official countywide student voice, criticizing concerns raised about lost instruction time and comparing the effort to other district activities that use school hours.
Brian Rupp, a parent of a North Brunswick High freshman, told the board the student leadership team presented in committee is a student-driven, countywide organization intended to represent students to the board and state education officials.
Rupp said the students had developed an organization “complete right out of the box even with an instruction manual” and urged the board to both create and later enforce a policy that would make the leadership team a formal district initiative. He challenged the board’s expressed worry about lost instructional hours by noting other school activities — including a high school band trip to a community event — that use class time for external engagements.
The parent said the leadership team is a “Brunswick built, female driven, non-athletic leadership academy” focused on policy and quality-of-life issues and asked the board for full support to help the student leaders represent their peers.
Board members thanked him for his remarks; the meeting proceeded to committee reports and no formal board action to establish the leadership team occurred at this session.
