The Great Valley School Board voted in October to approve Great Valley High School Student Democrats, among other new clubs.
At its Dec. 3 business meeting, the school directors will vote on whether to approve its counterpart, the Student Republicans.
Here are some of the interesting items from Monday's meeting agenda:
Requests to Establish Student Activity Clubs:
- Eco Adventure Club
- Great Valley Sportsmen's Club
- Student Republicans
- Ultimate Food Club
Approval of Personnel Changes, including:
- Appointment of Nicole Shaw, supervisor of food services to replace Barbara Nissel, effective Jan. 2, 2013 or upon release from current employment.
- Extra Duty Responsibility approval for David Waldman, assistant boys Lacrosse coach, Great Valley High School.
Adoption of Communications Policy.
- Policy #815.4, "Communications between employees, students and parents/guardians," is attached to this article as a PDF. An excerpt:
If an employee plans to communicate electronically with students through the use of text messages, the employee must obtain permission to do so from his/her building principal. If permission is received, the employee must not only provide students’ parents with written notification of the intent to use text messaging but must also obtain written parental permission to do so. All parents shall be copied on the text message
Reorganization
- The school board will appoint a temporary president and elect officers for 2013.
Cancellation of Dec. 17 School Board Meeting
View the full meeting agenda on Boarddocs.
Quite frankly it seems to me that our children's interest in politics is wonderful as they are after all the ones who will be running our country in the future.
However, in today's hyper-partisan environment, I believe it is problematic if a GVHS sponsored organization is allowed to indoctrinate students to drink one party's cool-aid and as a potential result, let them think it is OK to proceed through life lock-step, believing everything from one political party line. A single Party organization could/would condone and perpetuate the partisan driven ignorance that already exists among voters and politicians and, is causing political gridlock in America. Perhaps it would be better to replace a Republican, Democratic, or "other" party organization with a "Student Politics Organization" that promotes balanced and thoughtful analysis of issues before lapsing into blind partisan support. Within the organization there would be ample room for issued-driven and partisan (Democratic, Republican, Green, or other) caucuses or sub-committees. This type of structure would be more consistent with the goals of of our higher education system by encouraging students to be skeptical, ask questions, and conduct further research, analysis, and debate of real-life issues. This structure would also more closely mimic the structure of our Governmental entities that are non-partisan in structure but are made-up of the aforementioned partisan subgroups and interests.