The student representatives to the Board of Education (BoE) are a group of four students elected each year by the IHS student body to represent its interests at board meetings and relay pertinent information back to the school.
Due to winter break, the student representatives don’t have much to report this month. By the time of publication, they will likely have filmed their instructional video for the new paper recycling campaign (as outlined in previous Tattler issues). They will be attending their first BoE meeting of the new year on January 14 and plan to continue advocating for a reevaluation of middle school grading policy. Specifically, they hope that the Curriculum Committee agrees for the entire board to re-vote on the introduction of 1-4 grading scales for eighth grade courses bearing high school credit (Algebra, Earth Science, Foreign Languages). Since these courses appear on high school transcripts and are graded differently depending on whether a student takes them in middle or high school, the student representatives are hoping that those three classes are moved back to a 1-100 grading system (see editorial on pg. 2 for more information).
Additionally, the student representatives, through recent meetings with Ms. Hardesty, have learned that the staff bathroom monitors are unlikely to be removed anytime soon. In all likelihood, the surveillance policy will remain in effect for the remainder of the school year.
If the reader would like to meet with the student representatives during lunch or after school to discuss any policy concern, or to share thoughts about any ongoing project, they should feel free to reach out via email at the addresses provided below.
Caedmon Sethupathy ’25: cs11@icsd.k12.ny.us
Claire Park ’25: cp14@icsd.k12.ny.us
Jingying Xu ’27: jx1@icsd.k12.ny.us
Georgina Malikopoulou ’25: gm1@icsd.k12.ny.us
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