Students 2.0

Student voice: no big deal, right? Student council exists for that, right? Wrong.

Since there’s global readership on this blog, I’d like to point out I’m concentrating solely on the U.S. education system - this is what I know. Let me paint you a picture:

This picture shows the hierarchy of the United States education system. Students, the de-facto majority in schools, have the least say.

Isn’t that a little non-democratic?

The United States is a republic. Who is representing the students’ needs, rights, and interests? Certainly not a student in most cases. Usually, it’s adult politicians with “training” or experience of some kind, or a few parents petitioning electees of a school board. And the school board? It’s composed of people you don’t know, with motives you don’t know, from the district down to the individual school levels.
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