School Board Meetings

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in” -Theodore Roosevelt. The quote means that we need to help and serve for our country because without our help our country will not be good. The importance of community service and local government is helping the community out with all kinds of things like a soup dinner and also learning new things at school board meetings that your school does and how it reflects on you.

I attended a school board meeting in April and it was an interesting topic and what students and staff should know about. For next year there is a big class coming up and they don’t have enough teachers to teach them all so they decided to go on a period

At school board meetings they will have guest speakers come in and talk about what they can do for our school and see if they could benefit our school. I attended a school board meeting in May and I thought it was very interesting about the topics that were brought up. Guest speakers from Grant Wood AEA came and talked to the board and why they want to be part of school and they said they can provide for schools that cannot afford some things. They also said that they have worked with Center Point-Urbana before and they enjoyed their experience. The board brought up the transgender bathroom discussion and I found that to be different, but after they talked about why they brought it up it made sense of why we should not allow whoever to go into the restrooms whenever they want. They really talked about the parking lot and how it is a big issue and what they need to do. They talked about even having the freshman that drive park at the football field which I am in favor for. They also said they are building a second parking lot and would be 200,000 dollars for it and would be located where the practice field is right now. The school board committee even talked to us students and asked what time the school parking lot is the most crowded and what we thought of parking. Sometimes meetings can be boring and

Community service is a good thing to get involved in because it teaches you that giving back to the community is very helpful and everyone appreciates it. It is very easy, all you have to do is go there and people will tell you what to do and these tasks are simple. When I volunteered to be part of the soup dinner I was nervous at first, but after a little bit I was completely fine. Everyone at the church was really nice and they appreciated the help a lot. All I had to do was put food on tables for people that came in and go get food when they were out. Most of the people that came into the dinner were older and they all ate their food really fast! When tables were done we would buff them and restock when more people showed up. Community service was a simple task that helps out the people who run it so much. The soup dinner was already set up when we got there so it was easy and they just told us our jobs and sent us off. Community service is something everyone can do and benefit from the experience and make you a better