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Freeport student leaders tell RSU 5 board students feel unheard, urge clearer communication
Summary
Freeport High School's student leadership team presented a year of student conversations and recommended concrete steps — opening supervised informal spaces and clearer channels — to ensure students see tangible results from their feedback.
Freeport High School's student leadership team told the RSU 5 board on Wednesday that many students feel disconnected from peers, teachers and administrators and urged the district to make changes that show student feedback produces visible results.
The presentation, delivered by student board representative Moon Gattu and fellow student leaders Mira Goldman, Annie Shelkem, Jaden Stultz, Eleanor Williamson and Gracelyn Hill, summarized a year-long process of conversations, coding and analysis using the Cortico platform. "Students feel their opinions are not taken into account by admin," Gattu said, arguing that a perception of inaction discourages further participation.
The students described a three-part research process: convening broad…
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