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Student representatives highlight accomplishments and urge preservation of locker tradition
Summary
Outgoing and incoming ex officio student board members from Central, North and South presented end-of-year highlights — prom, music and athletic honors, and graduation plans — and North's representative asked the board to preserve a decades-old senior-hallway locker tradition for the junior class.
Student ex officio board members summarized a year of activities across the district and pressed the board on a student concern about locker assignments.
Jas Curry Court (speaker 4), outgoing ex officio representative for Central High School and Memorial Junior High, thanked the board and listed spring highlights including prom, a senior trip to Six Flags, music festival honors and graduation plans. "As the school school comes to a close, students are preparing for recent examinations and final exams," Jas Curry Court said, also noting Central's graduation will be held at Hofstra University on June 23.
Abigail Matthew (speaker 8), North High's ex officio, praised her school's AP students, music ensembles and athletics and raised a concrete request about locker assignments: she said current juniors should be allowed to move into the current senior lockers while incoming 7th graders are assigned elsewhere to preserve the "senior hallway" tradition. "Instead, we ask that the current juniors be allowed to move into the current senior lockers while incoming 7th graders are assigned to the lockers and the juniors will vacate," Abigail Matthew said.
Sarah Zafar (speaker 7), representing South High School, highlighted final projects, Regents reviews, award ceremonies and club transitions, and thanked retiring staff and administrators. Each student speaker closed by congratulating athletes and incoming ex officio members and urging continued emphasis on student voice in district decisions.
The student requests and highlights were presented during the ex officio reports portion of the meeting; the transcript records the student appeals and celebrations but does not show an immediate board directive responding to the locker request.
